Pentagon's Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since World War II

[Joanne98]

On December 22 both houses of the U.S. Congress unanimously passed a bill authorizing $725 billion for next year's Defense Department budget.

The bill, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, was approved by all 100 senators as required and by a voice vote in the House.

The House had approved the bill, now sent to President Barack Obama to sign into law, five days earlier in a 341-48 roll call, but needed to vote on it again after the Senate altered it in the interim.

The proposed figure for the Pentagon's 2011 war chest includes, in addition to the base budget, $158.7 billion for what are now euphemistically referred to as overseas contingency operations: The military occupation of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pentagon-s-Christmas-Prese-by-Rick-Rozoff-101223-140.html

[valerief]

1. That's where our tax dollars go. They buy drugs and build Dubai. nt

[4dsc]

3. That's where the economy is going

its downhill from here folks.

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. And this so we can chase around tribesmen on horses in Afghanistan

America has gone mad!

[somone]

4. We really need those $35,000 rifles and $500M patrol boats

to kill the hundred or so AK-47 carrying cavemen. It is a herculean effort.

[Democrats_win]

5. Well, they're doing a heck of a job.

After the new Pearl Harbor, the Pentagon effectively shot America in the foot with two idiotic wars and we still aren't any safer.

[smiley]

6. we were never meant to be safer...

only more afraid.

[Citizen Worker]

9. Excuse me, but Obama expanded the wars to three when he included Pakistan. Now, the pentagon wants

to go into Pakistan on the ground in pursuit of Al Qaeda. Soon war will include Iran.

[Bjorn Against]

7. Where is the tea party?

I thought they opposed big government spending, you would think they would be holding massive rallies to demonstrate against this. It is very interesting how spending only seems to be bad when it helps the less fortunate, when it is used to increase the stock options of military contractors however spending suddenly doesn't seem to be a problem for them any more.

[valerief]

8. Fox didn't tell them to do it. They're sheeple. They don't think. They follow orders.

Or maybe there are some baggers protesting, but they're learning how the media blackouts anything not useful to the 1%.