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2007-08-06 Home Front: Politix

US House passes $459 bln defense spending bill

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Posted by Steve White 2007-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The bill provides six billion dollars to boost the Army and Marine Corps by a total of 12,000 troops in order to reduce the pressure from extended deployments.

Breathless Liberal Screed Alert. When the military tries to fill the additional authorizations without dragging more personnel out of the current flow of operations to man additional 'training' billets to accompany this 'surge', there'll be screeds in the MSM and the usual suspect sources that the military is failing to meet enlistment quotas. This will be amplified even though the overall numbers of the forces will continue to rise.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-08-06 09:26|| 2007-08-06 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Usual Dhimmi nonsense on missile defense: it will never work so why fund it

If only this principal applied to social programs.

Posted by charger 2007-08-06 11:28|| 2007-08-06 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 What are you guys firing?

Gold bullets?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-08-06 12:49|| 2007-08-06 12:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Price of gold bullets?
Price of rebuilding a metro area hit by a Big One*?

*Particularly one responsible for regional business, energy, transportation, etc functions.

Posted by Proocpius2k 2007-08-06 15:38|| 2007-08-06 15:38|| Front Page Top

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