Potential action against Syria reignites U.S. budget concerns

[neverforget]

As I said before, there is always money for war. I want to throw up at our priorities.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/02/us-syria-crisis-usa-budget-idUSBRE9810QJ20130902

Potential action against Syria reignites U.S. budget concerns

(Reuters) - The U.S. military's decision to move an aircraft carrier into the Red Sea to help out with any "contingencies" underscores concerns a strike on Syria could evolve into another costly war as U.S. defense spending faces massive, mandatory cuts.

Current and former military officials say the cost of firing cruise missiles at selected targets in Syria would be relatively easily absorbed, and analysts say the effect on U.S. weapons makers would be relatively minimal.

But some U.S. lawmakers worry a strike against Syria could trigger a broader conflict.

They are using that argument as another reason to avert more than $500 billion in military spending cuts facing the Pentagon over the next decade under the process known as "sequestration," on top of $487 billion in cuts that were already planned.

"We cannot keep asking the military to perform mission after mission with sequestration and military cuts hanging over their heads," Republican Buck McKeon, chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, told CNN on Monday.

[rdharma]

1. No problem. Let's just have a voluntary Syrian War tax for the war mongers!

Pay to play!

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2. And then there's this from the article:

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Weapons makers are looking to foreign military sales and commercial markets to offset the downturn in U.S. military spending, but a new overseas conflict could increase demand for expendable items such as Raytheon's Tomahawk missiles.

"Any chance of military action tends to boost defense shares and bolster the case for defense spending," Thompson said, noting there was always the potential for escalation, despite the relatively small cost of cruise missile strikes.

Obama has said he will not put U.S. soldiers on the ground in Syria, but military planners say they are preparing for all possible "contingencies," a fact reflected by the decision to reroute the USS Nimitz carrier strike group to the Red Sea, instead of letting it return home.

"The prospect of military action has to raise questions about whether sequestration should continue," Thompson said.

Can I scream now?

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3. OH FOR FUCK SAKE. it's like 2001-2009 was a DALLAS TEEVEE DREAM.

we can't go back and not do iWaq NOW, we can't TAKE back the TAX CUTS. WHERE WERE THESE PEOPLE THEN?????

[neverforget]

4. kick

[Supersedeas]

5. Aftershock

[durablend]

6. Not to worry

All those "useless" domestic programs like Social Security, Medicare, food stamps (among other things) will be disbanded to pay for it. Nobody needs to have a sad thinking the rich will be required to pay for it (because they won't).

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7. We don't need them as bombs are good for profits.