Comments on: Bush’s 2009 Budget Is ‘As Good As It Gets For Defense Contractors’ http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:57:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: denizerdogan http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-5523854 denizerdogan Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:55:04 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-5523854 Just like the cold war when everyone who didn’t agree with the U.S. was either a communist or a communist sympathizer. <a href="http://www.toki.info.tr" title="toki" rel="nofollow">toki</a> This poor crazy guy spent half a decade being tortured because a bunch of stupid politicians <a href="http://www.aracplakasorgulama.net" title="araç sorgulama" rel="nofollow">araç sorgulama</a> were sure the NVA was in bed with the Russians (minimal help) and/or the Chinese (ancient enemy of the vietnamese). <a href="http://www.kamusal.org" title="ssk sorgulama" rel="nofollow">ssk sorgulama</a> You would think he would have learned from others’ mistakes. Guess not. Republicans need an enemy. <a href="http://www.frmbu.com" title="key ödemeleri" rel="nofollow">key ödemeleri</a> This century it apparently will be all Muslims, <a href="http://www.inthealthcare.com" title="health" rel="nofollow">health</a> all of whom must be alQaeda operatives. Just like the cold war when everyone who didn’t agree with the U.S. was either a communist or a communist sympathizer. toki This poor crazy guy spent half a decade being tortured because a bunch

of stupid politicians araç sorgulama were sure the NVA

was in bed with the Russians (minimal help) and/or the Chinese (ancient enemy of the vietnamese). ssk sorgulama You would think he would have learned from others’

mistakes. Guess not. Republicans need an enemy. key ödemeleri This

century it apparently will be all Muslims, health all of whom must

be alQaeda operatives.

]]> By: RickD http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4263020 RickD Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:07:33 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4263020 re: 42 You've got it backwards. The wars are an excuse for the defense spending, not the other way around. The usual script is simply to buy more and more weaponry while leaving it all untested. Bush/Cheney went off the tracks for a while there, but the usual way of doing business will be back by next year. re: 42

You’ve got it backwards. The wars are an excuse for the defense spending, not the other way around. The usual script is simply to buy more and more weaponry while leaving it all untested. Bush/Cheney went off the tracks for a while there, but the usual way of doing business will be back by next year.

]]> By: bilbobaggins http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262713 bilbobaggins Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:32:48 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262713 Our resident troll Francine thinks that the few jobs created by these hog defense contractors would go away if we stop feeding them the billions of dollars a year to make way. I guess, by his line of thinking, we should start a couple of new wars so we would need more defense contractors so they can hire more American workers. Unfortunately, it doesn't really work like that. It is not the American workers who are getting rich off of the military industrial complex, it is the Defense contractors themselves. Now, if we took that money and put it towards rebuilding our own country, all those workers who were no longer working for defense contractors can work for the companies that work to rebuild our country. To me that's a win-win situation. Endless war to feed the Military Industrial Complex is a lose to everyone except for the people at the top who are getting rich. It certainly does nothing to enhance this nation. Our resident troll Francine thinks that the few jobs created by these hog defense contractors would go away if we stop feeding them the billions of dollars a year to make way. I guess, by his line of thinking, we should start a couple of new wars so we would need more defense contractors so they can hire more American workers. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work like that. It is not the American workers who are getting rich off of the military industrial complex, it is the Defense contractors themselves.

Now, if we took that money and put it towards rebuilding our own country, all those workers who were no longer working for defense contractors can work for the companies that work to rebuild our country. To me that’s a win-win situation. Endless war to feed the Military Industrial Complex is a lose to everyone except for the people at the top who are getting rich. It certainly does nothing to enhance this nation.

]]> By: ClockWork_Orange http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262707 ClockWork_Orange Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:28:14 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262707 where's my conspiracy theory peeps, out there? now, if American Forces remain at surge levels (or if we even shuffle more to Afghanistan)... why all of the extra weaponry? have we another "oppressed" population to grace with Democracy, eh, Dubyah? this... <em>man</em>... doesn't want to depart from his "rug", next January. where’s my conspiracy theory peeps, out there?

now, if American Forces remain at surge levels (or if we even shuffle more to Afghanistan)… why all of the extra weaponry? have we another “oppressed” population to grace with Democracy, eh, Dubyah?

this… man… doesn’t want to depart from his “rug”, next January.

]]> By: bilbobaggins http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262701 bilbobaggins Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:25:35 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262701 <em>It’s become apparent that defense lobbyists see this year as a rush to the trough before cutbacks begin next year with a Dem in office. They’re clamoring for every taxpayer’s penny they can get their bloodstained hands on. Comment by A Patriot Acting </em> Congress needs to appropriate just enough money to keep the military going. Cut out all the fancy new equipment that will not be needed in Iraq because President Obama is going to apologize to Iraq for ruining their country and then bring our soldiers home. The only thing the government needs to do as far as heavy equipment is concerned is to replace all the equipment they stole from the National Guard. It’s become apparent that defense lobbyists see this year as a rush to the trough before cutbacks begin next year with a Dem in office. They’re clamoring for every taxpayer’s penny they can get their bloodstained hands on.
Comment by A Patriot Acting

Congress needs to appropriate just enough money to keep the military going. Cut out all the fancy new equipment that will not be needed in Iraq because President Obama is going to apologize to Iraq for ruining their country and then bring our soldiers home. The only thing the government needs to do as far as heavy equipment is concerned is to replace all the equipment they stole from the National Guard.

]]> By: pluege http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262698 pluege Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:24:13 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262698 the lost opportunity cost to humanity of US military spending is a crime against humanity of enormous proportions. . the lost opportunity cost to humanity of US military spending is a crime against humanity of enormous proportions.
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]]> By: Leftside Annie http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262627 Leftside Annie Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:34:38 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262627 Smaller government? Yeah, freakin' right. Smaller government?

Yeah, freakin’ right.

]]> By: JMOHR http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262615 JMOHR Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:28:36 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262615 Re comment 28: Yes, it is indeed meant to be sarc. However, a series of WSJ op eds after the fall of the Berlin wall did make these exact points. Re comment 28: Yes, it is indeed meant to be sarc. However, a series of WSJ op eds after the fall of the Berlin wall did make these exact points.

]]> By: Miles Tougeaux http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262578 Miles Tougeaux Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:08:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262578 In a country where the industrial military complex is the cornerstone of its economy this makes perfect sense: borrow money to build a better war machine. This is Reaganism revisited. And this is the REAL Washington stimulus package. In a country where the industrial military complex is the cornerstone of its economy this makes perfect sense: borrow money to build a better war machine. This is Reaganism revisited. And this is the REAL Washington stimulus package.

]]> By: dxwoods http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262542 dxwoods Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:56:28 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262542 This must be the deal that get's Feinstein's vote on wire tapping and Mukasey and what ever other spook operation the Cheney crowd wants to push through in the next 11 months. This must be the deal that get’s Feinstein’s vote on wire tapping and Mukasey and what ever other spook operation the Cheney crowd wants to push through in the next 11 months.

]]> By: AmandaBlow http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262538 AmandaBlow Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:54:30 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262538 Way to go idiot chimp! When it comes to crashing the economy : nobody does it better! Run up that defense bill! Contractors jumping off their seats like butterbeans! Make them jump out of the pot!!! Better be quick IDIOT FREAK you're running out of time! If you're lucky and hit BULLSEYE we're talking major economic meltdown so you can declare martial law and cancel elections! You got us on 9/11 so trust me IDIOT FREAK we're watching you closely! This time WE"LL GET YOU! IT'S OUR TURN IDIOT FREAK! Way to go idiot chimp! When it comes to crashing the economy : nobody does it better! Run up that defense bill! Contractors jumping off their seats like butterbeans! Make them jump out of the pot!!! Better be quick IDIOT FREAK you’re running out of time! If you’re lucky and hit BULLSEYE we’re talking major economic meltdown so you can declare martial law and cancel elections! You got us on 9/11 so trust me IDIOT FREAK we’re watching you closely! This time WE”LL GET YOU! IT’S OUR TURN IDIOT FREAK!

]]> By: MapleStreet http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262528 MapleStreet Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:50:24 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262528 And to think that part of the Neocon mantra is that Reagan, by talking weapons all the time, caused the Soviet Union to spend its way into bankruptcy by bolstering its military weapons. And Stupid Question: Didn't Haliburton move its corporate offices to the middle east ? So why are we not spending our tax money on AMERICAN companies who will put the money back into our economy (instead of putting it into the poor economies of oil producing nations??) And to think that part of the Neocon mantra is that Reagan, by talking weapons all the time, caused the Soviet Union to spend its way into bankruptcy by bolstering its military weapons.

And Stupid Question: Didn’t Haliburton move its corporate offices to the middle east ? So why are we not spending our tax money on AMERICAN companies who will put the money back into our economy (instead of putting it into the poor economies of oil producing nations??)

]]> By: ADDdaddy http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262494 ADDdaddy Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:36:51 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262494 Big surprise- it's his last opportunity to raid the till... Unless, he uses that provision in the Patriot Act to declare Martial Law and suspend elections for the "good" of the democracy... Then of course it is just Republican business as usual. Big surprise- it’s his last opportunity to raid the till… Unless, he uses that provision in the Patriot Act to declare Martial Law and suspend elections for the “good” of the democracy… Then of course it is just Republican business as usual.

]]> By: Buckie Boy http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262476 Buckie Boy Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:25:27 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262476 I see Roger_Roger is taking his meds. See RR it does help you think right when you take them daily. Buck Fush I see Roger_Roger is taking his meds. See RR it does help you think right when you take them daily.

Buck Fush

]]> By: Shayne http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262471 Shayne Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:24:39 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262471 Comment by JMOHR — February 11, 2008 @ 1:01 pm Uh oh, JMOHR, this one is so good that perhaps you should have used the /sarc tag. Comment by JMOHR — February 11, 2008 @ 1:01 pm

Uh oh, JMOHR, this one is so good that perhaps you should have used the /sarc tag.

]]> By: Shayne http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262468 Shayne Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:23:23 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262468 The Haves and Have Mores of Bush's base are thrilled I'm sure. And they're probably double plus happy since McBomb is promising them 100 years of uninterrupted conflict. The Haves and Have Mores of Bush’s base are thrilled I’m sure. And they’re probably double plus happy since McBomb is promising them 100 years of uninterrupted conflict.

]]> By: JMOHR http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262420 JMOHR Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:01:35 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262420 The money is going in the right direction. We all told you after the Berlin Wall fell that we were no longer going to live under a socialist society. We were going to do away with the pensions, health care and other benefits that we were forced to provide when there was a communist threat. We have been successful to restoring the proper balance in our society. We are the capitalists and you are nothing more than disposable assets. The money is going in the right direction. We all told you after the Berlin Wall fell that we were no longer going to live under a socialist society. We were going to do away with the pensions, health care and other benefits that we were forced to provide when there was a communist threat. We have been successful to restoring the proper balance in our society. We are the capitalists and you are nothing more than disposable assets.

]]> By: RUCerious http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262417 RUCerious Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:57:41 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262417 Rebuglycans, the PRO-DEATH party. Rebuglycans, the PRO-DEATH party.

]]> By: TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262412 TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:55:21 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262412 And the most blatantly shocking sentence in the article: "The biggest beneficiary of the Bush administration’s generosity toward contractors? Halliburton." Who didn't know that? And the most blatantly shocking sentence in the article:

“The biggest beneficiary of the Bush administration’s generosity toward contractors? Halliburton.”

Who didn’t know that?

]]> By: The Dogfather http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/comment-page-1/#comment-4262400 The Dogfather Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:49:08 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/budget-contractors/#comment-4262400 This should surprise <em>nobody</em>, least of all defense analysts. It just represents BushCo's last chance to grab the taxpayer $ and run -- squeezing the last ounce of pork out of the public coffers that they can before they return to their private sector jobs and reap the benefits of what they've sown for the last 8 years. This should surprise nobody, least of all defense analysts. It just represents BushCo’s last chance to grab the taxpayer $ and run — squeezing the last ounce of pork out of the public coffers that they can before they return to their private sector jobs and reap the benefits of what they’ve sown for the last 8 years.

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