Obama for Sensible Priorities

If you attended any political events leading up to the Iowa Caucuses you know about Iowans for Sensible Priorities. They are the ones that handed out the pens with the pull out charts, had the pie chart car, and passed out cookies with pie charts on them. There goals were to…

Increase funding to meet the needs of our children and children around the world (at no additional taxpayer expense) by reducing money spent on the Pentagon for Cold War weapons systems no longer needed to protect America.

Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff, has recently said that the Obama administration plans to cut Pentagon spending

Withdrawing from Iraq, and cutting $300 billion in other defense spending, would wipe out the increases in military spending under the Bush administration. It would even reduce military spending to a smaller percentage of the federal budget than it was during the Clinton administration.

It is great to have a President with sensible priorities.

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noneed4thneed

  • this is excellent news

    and a bit surprising for me, because Obama did not promise to reduce defense spending (that’s why he didn’t get the Sensible Priorities endorsement) and kept on Bush’s defense secretary.

    Obviously we waste tons of money on obsolete weapons systems every year. I am pleased to know that the Obama administration is on the case.

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