Comments on: Obama Asks $533 Billion for DoD http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/ Online Defense and Acquisition Journal Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe the veteranhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-16187 Joe the veteran Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:51:15 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-16187 Let see. The government give bilions and trillions of dollars to companies to survive in this economy. sometimes twice and sometimes three times. So does this mean the veterans should be short changed in this economy. We need the extra cash more than the companies who take the money given by the government to use for bonuses to people for make a healthy salary in the first place. Something is wrong here and the government doesn't see it. Let see. The government give bilions and trillions of dollars to companies to survive in this economy. sometimes twice and sometimes three times. So does this mean the veterans should be short changed in this economy. We need the extra cash more than the companies who take the money given by the government to use for bonuses to people for make a healthy salary in the first place. Something is wrong here and the government doesn’t see it.

]]> By: cwhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-8694 cw Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:34:01 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-8694 I would like to Know how much of the defence budget is being used to pay foreign governments? It seems that a lot of money is coming out of someones budget. I would like to Know how much of the defence budget is being used to pay foreign governments?
It seems that a lot of money is coming out of someones budget.

]]> By: Toniohttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-8384 Tonio Thu, 21 May 2009 07:12:39 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-8384 Nobody put a gun to your head to make you sign!Obama, Bush, Cheney....their all Cousins and working on the same behalf anyways!& I bet the public school system could use more than a 3% fund increase, so why are you complaining?FYI: Roughly over 25% of all homeless in the U.S. are Veterans."They got money for WARS, but can't feed the poor!" -Tupac Nobody put a gun to your head to make you sign!

Obama, Bush, Cheney.…their all Cousins and working on the same behalf anyways!

& I bet the public school system could use more than a 3% fund increase, so why are you complaining?

FYI: Roughly over 25% of all homeless in the U.S. are Veterans.

“They got money for WARS, but can’t feed the poor!” –Tupac

]]> By: Chief Houstonhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5938 Chief Houston Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:35:23 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5938 Use this vehicle to get things done that were never able to be accomplished before due to the lack of opportunity to discuss these issues. We must all learn together. Keep the political BS to some other chat rooms! We veterans, active, reserve and retired have to learn to reach high, not low, when we are given such an opportunity to discuss important issues. Any fool can take the low road! Use this vehicle to get things done that were never able to be accomplished before due to the lack of opportunity to discuss these issues. We must all learn together. Keep the political BS to some other chat rooms! We veterans, active, reserve and retired have to learn to reach high, not low, when we are given such an opportunity to discuss important issues. Any fool can take the low road!

]]> By: 2gunzbaghdadhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5934 2gunzbaghdad Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:05:54 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5934 Sorry for the gramatical mistakes. I am fuming and sometimes my fingers can't keep up with my brain Sorry for the gramatical mistakes. I am fuming and sometimes my fingers can’t keep up with my brain

]]> By: 2gunzbaghdadhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5933 2gunzbaghdad Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:04:07 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5933 Wow....I wonder if any of you guys have been in the military and understand the sacrifices we endure....the guy who is complaining that an E-7 takes 60k net a year and for his 73k he only net's 43k....well do you work 6 days a week 14-16 hours a day? Do you have to share a bunk due to rotations? Do you have to risk your life everyday? Are you seperated from your family day in and day out for months at a time to come home and try to spend a little time with your family before going back out in the thick?You guys drive me crazy! Fat and nasty sitting at home crying because your too lazy to get off your rump to get the remote control so you can turn up the volume to hear "that guy" talking about how he's not going to raise taxes on the "little guy" what about the mortgage intrest right off that's going away next year....hello....directly raising taxes on the little guy. Obama is no Messiah, he is just a plain mess how is a wonderul orator ONLY. Wow.…I wonder if any of you guys have been in the military and understand the sacrifices we endure.…the guy who is complaining that an E-7 takes 60k net a year and for his 73k he only net’s 43k.…well do you work 6 days a week 14–16 hours a day? Do you have to share a bunk due to rotations? Do you have to risk your life everyday? Are you seperated from your family day in and day out for months at a time to come home and try to spend a little time with your family before going back out in the thick?

You guys drive me crazy! Fat and nasty sitting at home crying because your too lazy to get off your rump to get the remote control so you can turn up the volume to hear “that guy” talking about how he’s not going to raise taxes on the “little guy” what about the mortgage intrest right off that’s going away next year.…hello.…directly raising taxes on the little guy. Obama is no Messiah, he is just a plain mess how is a wonderul orator ONLY.

]]> By: Thinkhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5908 Think Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:20:59 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5908 Military personnel have to be given better economic education. The money for the military comes from the productive part of the economy. This Real Manufacturing Economy has been shrinking for a while and now it is shrinking even faster. It doesn't matter how much dollars you get, it matters what real economy stands behind them. The banks messed up the real economy while the government slept. Now both of them are making it worse by propping up our broken financial system without trying to fix it. This is bad news for everybody, military included. It doesn't make sense to ask troops to risk their lives for the country if that same country is being taken down by economic strife and infighting-induced chaos. Even more, without Productive Economy there is no way to get decent pay, much less a Real pay raise. After age starts to interfere with service you guys and galls will have to settle down in the above mentioned Real Economy. So in order to understand how much you CAN get, now or later, you have to look into the economic and political conditions in the US. It's an entire new game for you but I know you are a tough bunch and you can do it. Military personnel have to be given better economic education. The money for the military comes from the productive part of the economy. This Real Manufacturing Economy has been shrinking for a while and now it is shrinking even faster. It doesn’t matter how much dollars you get, it matters what real economy stands behind them. The banks messed up the real economy while the government slept. Now both of them are making it worse by propping up our broken financial system without trying to fix it. This is bad news for everybody, military included. It doesn’t make sense to ask troops to risk their lives for the country if that same country is being taken down by economic strife and infighting-induced chaos. Even more, without Productive Economy there is no way to get decent pay, much less a Real pay raise. After age starts to interfere with service you guys and galls will have to settle down in the above mentioned Real Economy. So in order to understand how much you CAN get, now or later, you have to look into the economic and political conditions in the US. It’s an entire new game for you but I know you are a tough bunch and you can do it.

]]> By: HighlanderJuanhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5893 HighlanderJuan Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:34:37 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5893 Obama is trying to buy off the military vote. He doesn't want the military gnawing at his ankles about his non-Natural Born Citizen status and therefore being unqualified to be president.Just more Chicago politics.Having said all of that, I am much more comfortable with him going that way, rather than the other way. In the coming years of strife, our military needs to remain the best in the world.Have a good one. Obama is trying to buy off the military vote. He doesn’t want the military gnawing at his ankles about his non-Natural Born Citizen status and therefore being unqualified to be president.

Just more Chicago politics.

Having said all of that, I am much more comfortable with him going that way, rather than the other way. In the coming years of strife, our military needs to remain the best in the world.

Have a good one.

]]> By: Reader Bobhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5892 Reader Bob Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:33:22 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5892 And why not?? "The Obama administration released its DoD budget today for FY 2010, requesting $533.7 billion, a 4 percent increase over the 2009 budget of $513 billion. If funded, the 2010 budget would be the highest defense budget in real terms since World War II, exceeding even the peak years of the Reagan era defense build-up."After all, this President has been in office less than 50 days and has spent 3.4 Trillion+ dollars and still going strong. We never knew that spending could be so easy with no accountability today OR for tomorrow. If the military needs more money…no problem, just a minute please while I just print more. (My wife uses the same concept…as long as she has checks, she thinks she has money!!). Someday these chickens are going to come home, and then what? Who is going to pay for all this spending? And why not??
“The Obama administration released its DoD budget today for FY 2010, requesting $533.7 billion, a 4 percent increase over the 2009 budget of $513 billion. If funded, the 2010 budget would be the highest defense budget in real terms since World War II, exceeding even the peak years of the Reagan era defense build-up.”

After all, this President has been in office less than 50 days and has spent 3.4 Trillion+ dollars and still going strong. We never knew that spending could be so easy with no accountability today OR for tomorrow. If the military needs more money…no problem, just a minute please while I just print more. (My wife uses the same concept…as long as she has checks, she thinks she has money!!). Someday these chickens are going to come home, and then what? Who is going to pay for all this spending?

]]> By: mardon123http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5890 mardon123 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:20:58 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5890 Let me see, an E-7 takes home about 60K net a year, and I make 73K, and get to take home 43K... Parity????????? Let me see, an E-7 takes home about 60K net a year, and I make 73K, and get to take home 43K… Parity?????????

]]> By: Hitch Hikerhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5772 Hitch Hiker Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:10:55 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5772 This is an excellent article and Chief Houston is correct about the accuracy of this budget picture. Let's not be hasty though in coming to conclusions. Congress and their self-interests haven't weighed in yet. It's been written that Rep Barney Frank is soon going to ask for a 25% reduction in the defense budget. Where's that $133B going to come from? This is an excellent article and Chief Houston is correct about the accuracy of this budget picture. Let’s not be hasty though in coming to conclusions. Congress and their self-interests haven’t weighed in yet. It’s been written that Rep Barney Frank is soon going to ask for a 25% reduction in the defense budget. Where’s that $133B going to come from?

]]> By: Chief Houstonhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5766 Chief Houston Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:51:04 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5766 2.9% is one line item. Increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps are more important right now than pay increases. The fact that this is probably the first accurate picture of our military budget in a while is another. The "proposed benefit expansions for retirees and veterans including disability compensation, mental health care, as well as military housing and base improvements" is long overdue. Let's be clear, 2.9% is not a big increase, but Cheney-Bushed the retirees and disabled pay away from the active rate for years. It is proposed now to tie it to the Social Security rate that is based off COLA's and the inflation index rather than fall of the cliff as it has been doing. The cool part about this gentleman is that these are projected numbers and can moved as seen fit when the April Budget comes out. Just for your information, the disability tables that the service branches use is probably based of of 1960's numbers. If you need a 100% rate and you cannot provide income because of your disability,like some of our brothers and ssisters, it should be at least based on what income you could have provided if you were not ddisabled. 2.9% is one line item. Increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps are more important right now than pay increases. The fact that this is probably the first accurate picture of our military budget in a while is another.
The “proposed benefit expansions for retirees and veterans including disability compensation, mental health care, as well as military housing and base improvements” is long overdue.
Let’s be clear, 2.9% is not a big increase, but
Cheney-Bushed the retirees and disabled pay away from the active rate for years. It is proposed now to tie it to the Social Security rate that is based off COLA’s and the inflation index rather than fall of the cliff as it has been doing. The cool part about this gentleman is that these are projected numbers and can moved as seen fit when the April Budget comes out. Just for your information, the disability tables that the service branches use is probably
based of of 1960’s numbers. If you need a 100% rate and you cannot provide income because of your disability,like some of our brothers and ssisters, it should be at least based on what income you could have provided if you were not ddisabled.

]]> By: soonergrunthttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5765 soonergrunt Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:32:26 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5765 I guess Fred doesn't remember the first Bush administration that gave us a pay freeze for two years, and we only got the anemic pay raises we did because Democrats in the Congressional majority at the time gave us those in the appropriations bill. I guess Fred doesn’t remember the first Bush administration that gave us a pay freeze for two years, and we only got the anemic pay raises we did because Democrats in the Congressional majority at the time gave us those in the appropriations bill.

]]> By: fred thomashttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5761 fred thomas Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:13:30 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5761 Give me a break Navy guy, this dude needs to give us a Reagan type raise with all his hype in his election, how about a nice 11-16%, Heck Turbo-Tim and Chris Dodd give Billions to Wall Street and they get some big bonus and never come close to doing what we do...Come on Obama if all you can do is 2.9 then I guess congress should be tied to us and the rest of the government, I bet we would see more then. Oh yeah, Bush was never this low in raises either... Give me a break Navy guy, this dude needs to give us a Reagan type raise with all his hype in his election, how about a nice 11–16%, Heck Turbo-Tim and Chris Dodd give Billions to Wall Street and they get some big bonus and never come close to doing what we do…Come on Obama if all you can do is 2.9 then I guess congress should be tied to us and the rest of the government, I bet we would see more then. Oh yeah, Bush was never this low in raises either…

]]> By: Navy guyhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5753 Navy guy Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:05:21 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5753 2.9% is better than nothing. 2.9% is better than nothing.

]]> By: Army guyhttp://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/02/26/obama-requests-533-billion-for-dod-in-2010/#comment-5729 Army guy Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:38:47 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=4651#comment-5729 wow a 2.9% pay raise thanks. wow a 2.9% pay raise thanks.

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