McKeon will blast Obama’s defense policy
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Feb 3, 2010 17:33:30 EST

The House Armed Services Committee’s ranking Republican will lay into President Obama’s national security strategy in a Thursday speech.

“A defense budget in decline portends an America in decline,” Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon of California will say in a speech to be delivered to the Heritage Foundation, according to an advance copy obtained by Military Times. “This is an outcome we cannot accept. America in decline is not the type of change the American people signed up for, nor is it a change we should believe in.”

In the speech, McKeon calls for a bigger defense budget — he does not give a specific amount — and warns of a “capability gap” that could “lead to hollow contingency plans and could embolden adversaries.”

The $708 billion 2011 defense budget proposed Monday by the Obama administration represents a 3.4 percent increase over the 2010 budget. But after adjusting for inflation, the increase is only 1.4 percent over current spending, which McKeon says would force reductions in future weapons programs to pay for current operations.

He is concerned about a forecast predicting that weapons programs, which make up 35 percent of the current defense budget, will be squeezed to 24 percent by 2020.

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unhappycamper comment: Well Buck, let's take a look at some of the shit the pentagon has been spending money on the last eight years:

$5+ billion dollars:




$1.4 billion dollars:




$600 + million dollars:





$704 million dollars:




$355 million dollars:




$239 million dollars:



$1.1 million dollars a year:




$89,000 dollars:




$400: