Bush to seek $515 billion for Pentagon

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush will seek $515.4 billion for the Pentagon for fiscal 2009, up 7.5 percent from the funds Congress approved for 2008, according to Pentagon documents obtained by Reuters on Friday.

In his final budget request on Monday, Bush also will ask Congress for $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the documents show.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01459220.htm

[HowHasItComeToThis]

1. WE ARE BEING DESTROYED BY THE MIC

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

REC ME IF YOU AGREE,
THANKS, YEBBA

[MichiganVote]

2. Call Exxon asshole

[Demeter]

3. Better Have a Bake Sale, W

The Treasury is empty.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. but Bush borrows from the Chinese!

[superconnected]

4. Half a trillion? He really does want an orweillian autocracy doesn't he?

What are they going to do, put telescreens in our homes and monitor all of our conversations for illegal words?

No gov agency needs half a trillion unless they are doing something very wrong.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

5. One word......WTF

[scarface2004]

7. conservatives are pissed!

it was supposed to be $515,000,000,000,000,000 but bush chickened out!

[MasonJar]

8. This is is the same monster who vetoed the program for children's

health care twice and who refused a .5% more pay raise for the US military, which is fighting his stupid war. It is time to refuse to pay taxes en masse. Enough is way past enough!!!!!

[ckramer]

9. The empire is getting more expensive to keep it float

Where are the monies coming from?

515 billion.

[Hawkeye-X]

10. He should borrow it from his cronies..

Not the taxpayers.

[fshrink]

11. Little time left. Let's plunder as much as we can.

[SusanLarson]

12. woulda coulda shoulda

I would rec if could rec. Forget about the recession he can just go print more money.

[OneBlueSky]

13. insane . . . absolutely insane . . . n/t

.

[Kokonoe]

14. Bush to seek $140.7 bln for Army in budget

Source: Reuters

President George W. Bush will seek $140.7 billion on Monday for the U.S. Army in fiscal 2009, including increased funds to buy helicopters and other equipment, according to budget documents obtained by Reuters.

That request would be 8 percent higher than the Army budget requested for fiscal 2008.

The budget request also includes funds to increase the size of the Army to 532,400 soldiers by the end of fiscal 2009, up from about 512,400 now. That is part of a five-year plan to boost both the Army and Marine Corps.

Bush's overall Pentagon budget request will total $515.4 billion for fiscal 2009, up 7.5 percent from the funds Congress approved for 2008, according to Pentagon documents obtained by Reuters on Friday. He also will seek $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0148678020080202

[unhappycamper]

15. *cough*

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/unhappycamper/239

[awoke_in_2003]

16. Yet he wants to cut a

$6 billion a year increase to Medicare/Medicaid. Purely disgusting.

[creeksneakers2]

17. They don't need a bigger army

They need fewer wars.

[Orsino]

18. Watch carefully, folks...

...to see how Obama and Clinton vote, and how they spin their votes. Then decide how inspiring they are as leaders.

[Xenotime]

19. HOLY FUCK! That is some serious money to be putting in your pockets..

when you leave office. I'm sure our lame-ass congress will give it to him too.