Huge Budget Feeds War Machine
The President has unveiled his proposal for next year’s federal budget, and the results point to a further escalation in military actions and spending. Despite campaign promises to reign in the military machine, the numbers presented will be a significant boost over last year’s already inflated numbers.
Now, Obama didn’t exactly run as a dove, but he was branding himself as the “least hawkish” of the hawks we could have otherwise chosen from.
Will America reward Obama for expanding our military actions and spending a billion on airport scanner machines that don’t actually detect the bombs they’re supposed to be protecting us from?
Bin Laden’s stated goal was to bankrupt the United States in an unwinnable war on Islamic soil. So far, we seem to be playing right in to his plans.