Pentagon budget hits new record in spending bill

[Nambe]

Source: The Associated Press

The Pentagon budget would rise to a new record while U.S. automakers and victims of hurricanes and floods would receive billions of dollars in a $630 billion-plus omnibus spending bill rushing toward the House floor Wednesday. ...

,,, That includes $488 billion for the Pentagon, $40 billion for Homeland Security Department programs and $73 billion for veterans programs and military base construction projects. ...

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/24/pentagon-budget-hits-new-record-in-spending-bill/

[mediaman007]

1. Let the bankers borrow from the Pentagon!

[SpiralHawk]

2. Great idea !

Am forwarding your post to Commander AWOL (R)

[bullimiami]

3. the pitiful democrats just help them keep throwing more and more of our money down the hole.

[Gillian]

7. Swing Votes! National security and pump issues.

Fix that stuff after the elections. I think they are just laying low to a large degree. There a more than a few long time repugs wanting a change.

[niceypoo]

8. I know several republicans who say they arent going to vote...

...at all, my freeper brother is one of them.

[ixion]

4. they sure are "rushing" to bury us in debt

between that and rushing to destroy our constitution, we'll be a banana republic police state in no time.

[Kolesar]

9. Since the Federal Reserve cannot control interest rates*, expect inflation

and a further dollar deflation. grrr.

*What I mean is that the Fed used to "control" the economy by setting interbank lending rates. Now it has become that the international banking community controls what rates are paid for US Treasury bonds and other long term debt "instruments" like corporate bonds and home mortgages.

Stagflation 2 - come soon to a suburb near you.

[Indenturedebtor]

5. Oh ffs would they cut the Pentagon budget to 150 bln already?

WHY do we have to have the most bloated military budget in the world?

[whistle]

6. Plus, what about "off-budget spending" by the military? There are hundreds of billions being spent

...which the congress and the public knows nothing specifically about (some 25% to 30% of on-budget spending).

[DeadManInc]

10. Senate needs ro recess till after the election. We are getting buried

in debt before bushco is over.