Posts Tagged ‘Defense’

Obama’s math skills

Saturday, July 9th, 2011

President Obama has made many gaffes suggesting unfamiliarity with things like military medical personnel, otherwise known as corpsmen. This time he has shown himself to be unfamiliar with the defense budget and arithmetic.

“The nice thing about the defense budget is it’s so big, it’s so huge, that a 1 percent reduction is the equivalent of the education budget,” Obama said, immediately noting he was “exaggerating” the exact numbers.

“But it’s so big that you can make relatively modest changes to defense that end up giving you a lot of head room to fund things like basic research or student loans or things like that,” the president said.

In fact, his numbers are wildly wrong.

“Contrary to his wildly exaggerated statement, a 1 percent reduction to the Pentagon’s proposed fiscal year 2012 base budget would be $5.5 billion—or 7 percent of the Department of Education’s proposed FY 2012 budget,” wrote Brownfield.

The political left has exaggerated the size of the defense budget for years. The fact that a left wing president would do it is an example of how far from reality they are.

This is probably bad news

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

The NY Times reports today that Special Operations will step back from its aggressive stance in fighting terrorists around the world. If you have read “Imperial Grunts”, you know they have been doing this for years. It is also well known that the Big Army is uncomfortable with Special Operations and Special Forces. I don’t know the rest of the story but this may be an example of an anticipation of President Obama and the consequences of the surrender coalition taking over the government.

Here is more on this story although it is still not clear what the implications are.