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March 04, 2009
FINALLY: Obama Makes Good on Promise to Go "Line by Line" Through Budget, Eliminating Wasteful Spending
As the Joker said: "And here... we... go!"
Obama takes aim at costly defense contracts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the U.S. government was paying too much for things it did not need and ordered a crackdown on spending "plagued by massive cost overruns and outright fraud."
The Democrat, under fire from Republicans for the $3.5 trillion price tag for his 2010 budget plan, also took aim at predecessor George W. Bush and noted the cost of government contracts had doubled to more than half a trillion dollars over the past eight years.
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"The days of giving defense contractors a blank check are over," Obama told reporters in a briefing on his reforms.
And for ACORN...?
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Obama said he was ordering a reform of the way the government did business, a move he said would save taxpayers $40 billion a year and help cut the budget deficit, which he has forecast will hit $1.75 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year.
He's basing his case on "cost overruns."
Seems to me I could live with an administration that eliminated spending based on "cost overruns" across all departments.
Odd that our Warrior-Poet in Chief only focuses on one.
It's also worth noting that Warrior-Poet takes the position that it doesn't matter what we spend on, only that we spend, in order to goose the economy.
Once again, defense spending is a curious exception.
We can spend millions on studying the correlation between estrus and flatulence in bi-curious gophers but talk about building an F-22 and suddenly it's "wasteful."
Thanks to WilliamA.