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  Dan leave up to you to find the tough budget nuts to crackdown on...How about just getting out of Iraq...someone remind me why went there again...oh yes, now I remember to spend money on big GOP campaign supporters.

  Dahhuh Posted October 31, 2009 4:28 PM
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  The continued shrinking of our 283 ship Naval Fleet is a dangerous road. Where is Teddy Roosevelt when we need him?

  Dru Posted October 30, 2009 7:48 PM
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  Earlier articles said that DoD wanted to CUT certain purchases/programs, but the Senators wouldn't let them. Didn't matter to the Senator that DoD didn't need the planes/weapons, etc. they were only concerned about the jobs that would be lost.

  Retraining people who were making things DoD no longer wants to buy would make a lot more sense, but Congress has no back bone.

  Charley Posted October 29, 2009 12:52 PM
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  ACORN needs more money and it has to come from some where

  dan m ketter Posted October 29, 2009 11:35 AM
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  How is it that eliminating probably thousands of jobs in the defense industry is good for the struggling economy? The administration throws money at every problematic industry in the nation. Here is a performing industry providing jobs and security to untold numbers of workers and you want to cut that back? Obamanomics at work?

  Puzzled Posted October 29, 2009 8:58 AM
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  Systematically dismantling first the economy and now our Nation's Defenses.... Change we can live with, but can we ??

  Chris Lewis Posted October 29, 2009 8:54 AM
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  We have the capabilities to kill everyone on Earth at least twice. The Pentagon shouldn't feel too much pain. The R&D world might feel pain, but let's shift those dollars elsewhere.

  Frank Posted October 29, 2009 7:57 AM
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  I'm sure that our Congressmen and Senators are able to read - I mean, after all, they had to go to school until their 16th birthdays, right? That being the case, how does it happen that apparently none of them is able to read the U.S. Constitution, which says nothing at all about social programs, but DOES mandate that defense is a responsibility of the Federal Government? Not only that, but apparently none of them understands basic economics well enough to see that profits for a large corporation or insurance firm do NOT equal money in the pockets of those unemployed workers whose jobs were outsourced overseas to swell the profits of said corporations, which also removed the source of profits (American workers) for the insurance firms? Not to mention those tax reductions that were mostly for those making over $200,000 per year which also didn't help the deficit OR the consumer (95% or more of us do NOT have million plus dollar retirement accounts and/or buy stocks - we're too busy just trying to keep up with our mortgages).

  Larry R. Doane Posted October 29, 2009 7:53 AM
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  Yeah - they have to find SOME way to pay for health care for illegals aliens and people that are too lazy to work. Let's cut defense spending! How about the president cutting out "date nights" that cost the taxpayers $200,000 a pop?

  Kathy Posted October 29, 2009 7:39 AM