February 2, 200917 yr FoxNews.com Defense Official: Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts Some overall budget figures are expected to be announced Monday. The Obama administration has asked the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent -- about $55 billion -- a senior U.S. defense official tells FOX News. Last year's defense budget was $512 billion. Service chiefs and planners will be spending the weekend "burning the midnight oil" looking at ways to cut the budget -- looking especially at weapons programs, the defense official said. Some overall budget figures are expected to be announced Monday. Obama met Friday at the White House with a small group of military advisers, including Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman, and Gen. Jim Jones, National Security Council chairman. FOX News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report. Link I say the first thing to go needs to be the Missile Defense program, which is just alienating Russia and others, and doesn't work that well anyway. It's also extremely expensive.
February 2, 200917 yr Good. I just hope the Republicans don't make this their platform to run on in 2012.
February 2, 200917 yr Author Good. I just hope the Republicans don't make this their platform to run on in 2012. Unless they make some big changes, they won't HAVE a platform in 2012. Or anything else for that matter...
February 2, 200917 yr Good. I just hope the Republicans don't make this their platform to run on in 2012. Unless they make some big changes, they won't HAVE a platform in 2012. Or anything else for that matter... What do you mean?
February 2, 200917 yr If it is on missles good, anything else with so many fronts with our men might not be the smartest. The missles have been scare tactics since the cold war, they need to really cut that.
February 2, 200917 yr Author It has to be on things that we don't need. Obama and his military advisors know better than to get caught in a GOP trap that they can use later to claim that Obama 'doesn't support the troops'.
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