More Pork Over Defence
He wasn't campaigning when he said this, “If a project doesn’t support our troops, we will not fund it. If a system doesn’t perform, we will terminate it. And if Congress sends me a defense bill loaded with that kind of pork, I will veto it,” then again he always is; but yet another promise down the tubes. President Obama signed a $636 billion pork-laden bill ($4.2 billion worth) that will effectively cut into any success that is the Iraq-Afgan Counterinsurgency Program. More pork projects to keep his drones happy, while placing the troops in considerably more danger.
The earmarking total is 14 percent lower than it was on last year's defense bill, and the Obama administration says federal agencies found more than $19 billion in contract savings for 2010.
Todd Harrison, a budget studies fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, is especially disappointed Congress cut $300 million from a successful counterinsurgency program used by Army field commanders.
“That money is used by commanders on ground in Iraq and Afghanistan to fund small projects that help win over the local population,” he said.
The earmarking total is 14 percent lower than it was on last year's defense bill, and the Obama administration says federal agencies found more than $19 billion in contract savings for 2010.
Todd Harrison, a budget studies fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, is especially disappointed Congress cut $300 million from a successful counterinsurgency program used by Army field commanders.
“That money is used by commanders on ground in Iraq and Afghanistan to fund small projects that help win over the local population,” he said.
posted by Northern Exposer at 02:40
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