rssObama Tries to Stop the F-22 From Coming Back to Life
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 3:11 pm
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Just as it did with the Senate’s defense authorization bill, the White House released a statement warning the House Appropriations Committee against placing any money for the F-22 fighter jet — which the Senate killed — into its companion legislation:
The Administration strongly objects to $369 million in unrequested advanced procurement funding provided for 12 F-22 fighter aircraft in FY 2011, rather than ending the production program as requested by the President. The collective judgment of the Service Chiefs and Secretaries of the military departments has determined that 187 F-22s are sufficient to meet operational requirements. Consistent with the President’s letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 13, 2009, concerning the National Defense Authorization Act, if the final bill presented to him contains this provision, the President will veto it.
The White House underlined that in the original because it’s really ticked off.
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Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 10:01 pm
So, health care has to be under $1 trillion over ten years or else the sky will fall, but they can slip over a third of that amount into the Pentagon annual budget for something the Pentagon no longer wants.
War is a racket.
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