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Obama Administration had slashed budget for domestic bombing prevention by 45%!

Can someone identify a single item that could be cut from anything, anywhere that wouldn't piss off a bunch of people. Until this tragedy occurred, America didn't really haver a lot of bombing problems. If you saw $20M allocated to bombing studies, you'd have asked why we wasted so much money on this. Now we'll be spending billions on it.
 
Rocketman said:
I am always happy with cuts, I am laughing at liberals that thought Obama had their best interests in mind
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So that means you are congratulating President Obama. I never knew you were such a fan of President Obama. Go ahead and say it, you are an Obama fan right now.
 
Rocketman said:
I am always happy with cuts, I am laughing at liberals that thought Obama had their best interests in mind
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Are you leading to "The bombing only happened because Obama made cuts to IED prevention in the USA"? Also, do you recognize that Congress has been controlled by the Right.

Also did you notice that the Bush administration significantly cut "Anti-terrorism" funding just before 9-11 but was praised when they raised it after 9-11?

You DO realize that Congress has more power than a President, (R)ight? Or are you that guy that blames everything bad in America that they can on the person or party they hate?
 
Other than police dogs there is not a lot you can do to stop this late in the game unless you just get lucky. I don't see a day when minesweepers will be rolling down I-95. Even at $20M, I doubt much was being done in a realistic way.
 
Slyfox696 said:
Does this mean fiscal conservatives are happy Obama worked to trim the budget like they've asked? I don't understand the point of this thread.
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I believe the point is, Obama is cutting things in the budget to meet this sequester that shouldnt be cut and not cutting things that should be cut.

Cut out the tours to the WH for the kids but heavens we must keep up our Motown parties.

His priorities arent straight...or maybe they are...maybe he just wants the sequester to actually just hurt the people not the players wasting the money.
 
Rocketman said:
$20 million budget under Bush became $11 million under Obama

Both administrations neglected domestic bombing prevention, devoting a tiny fraction of the $1 billion earmarked for IED prevention overseas
Obama issued a lengthy 'National Policy for Countering Improvised Explosive Devices' in February but a spokesman won't say if it failed


Barack Obama's administration has cut the budget nearly in half for preventing domestic bombings, MailOnline can reveal.
Under President George W. Bush, the Department of Homeland Security had $20 million allocated for preventing the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by terrorists working inside the United States. The current White House has cut that funding down to $11 million.

That assessment comes from Robert Liscouski, a former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 that killed three Americans and injured at least 173 others.






Read more: Obama administration has SLASHED budget for domestic bombing prevention by 45 per cent, says former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary | Mail Online
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if the budget would have been 50 million, it still would not have prevented this bombing.
 
Frankly I don't know that pouring money on this would have stopped it.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
See there are very very few actual "libertarians" in this country.
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So wait, let me ask you a question. When you are thinking about an issue, do you think for yourself on the issue and draw your own conclusions; or do you just go straight to the Dem-Socialist handbook or some ivory tower intellectual and let them do the thinking for you?


Now, I'll say this, personally even as a libertarian, I'm against cutting law enforcement. I think we need to tighten who we give funding to and what for, but cutting law enforcement just leads to a loss of safety that can be far greater then the savings.
 
Imnukingfutz said:
I believe the point is, Obama is cutting things in the budget to meet this sequester that shouldnt be cut and not cutting things that should be cut.

Cut out the tours to the WH for the kids but heavens we must keep up our Motown parties.

His priorities arent straight...or maybe they are...maybe he just wants the sequester to actually just hurt the people not the players wasting the money.
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I didn't see anything to suggest these cuts came from the sequester. Furthermore, that wasn't his point. Finally, Obama wouldn't have had to cut any money during the sequester if Congress could have agreed on a budget.

All of which to say is this was an idiotic thread designed to senselessly bash the President for something people like the thread starter says they want. Basically, this seems like little more than a troll thread.
 
Slyfox696 said:
So that means you are congratulating President Obama. I never knew you were such a fan of President Obama. Go ahead and say it, you are an Obama fan right now.
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Congress made the cuts, Obama did not want them
 
Imnukingfutz said:
I believe the point is, Obama is cutting things in the budget to meet this sequester that shouldnt be cut and not cutting things that should be cut.

Cut out the tours to the WH for the kids but heavens we must keep up our Motown parties.

His priorities arent straight...or maybe they are...maybe he just wants the sequester to actually just hurt the people not the players wasting the money.
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True but obama cut the domestic terrorism budget in half well before sequester.
 
Rocketman said:
Congress made the cuts, Obama did not want them
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Ahh, so REALLY what you're saying is:

Rocketman said:
I am posting this for all the liberals that thought (Congress) was protecting them
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So you're blaming Congress for this. Who in Congress is generally speaking out about the necessity of budget cuts?
 
Slyfox696 said:
I didn't see anything to suggest these cuts came from the sequester. Furthermore, that wasn't his point. Finally, Obama wouldn't have had to cut any money during the sequester if Congress could have agreed on a budget.

All of which to say is this was an idiotic thread designed to senselessly bash the President for something people like the thread starter says they want. Basically, this seems like little more than a troll thread.
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Well only hours after this event took place, the leading political pundits & politicians on the left were out there blaming it on the sequester & conservatives...just like every other horrific event of the last 10 years they try to blame conservatives for it....the only difference now is they have the sequester to throw at Conservatives too..Liberals are just as guilty for the sequester as the Conservatives are but according to them...not their voting record, they had nothing to do with it.

Each and every one of them need to stop playing the game of political finger pointing and political posturing for face time in the news. They seem like they are more happy with their celebrity status rather than doing their jobs they were elected to do.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
True but obama cut the domestic terrorism budget in half well before sequester.
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Then tell the political pundits & politicians on the Left all over the news that.....they are too busy blaming Conservatives & the sequester for this.
 
Imnukingfutz said:
Well only hours after this event took place, the leading political pundits & politicians on the left were out there blaming it on the sequester & conservatives
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Which is false. Just as it is false when the conservatives are blaming the liberals for it.

...just like every other horrific event of the last 10 years they try to blame conservatives for it
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And the conservatives blame the liberals. It's just the way things go.

....the only difference now is they have the sequester to throw at Conservatives too..Liberals are just as guilty for the sequester as the Conservatives are but according to them...not their voting record, they had nothing to do with it.
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I don't recall many Democrats out there pushing for the sequester to happen. From what I can remember, it was mostly Republicans (and more specifically, Tea Party nuts) who were happy about the sequester happening.

There's a big difference between agreeing to agree a year and a half down the road and actively campaigning to force something through.

Each and every one of them need to stop playing the game of political finger pointing and political posturing for face time in the news. They seem like they are more happy with their celebrity status rather than doing their jobs they were elected to do.
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100% agree.
Imnukingfutz said:
Then tell the political pundits & politicians on the Left all over the news that.....they are too busy blaming Conservatives & the sequester for this.
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Who are the leading people who are saying this?
 
Imnukingfutz said:
I believe the point is, Obama is cutting things in the budget to meet this sequester that shouldnt be cut and not cutting things that should be cut.
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Is it the Feds job to protect the state or is it the state's job to protect the state? Why are you wanting to rely on Federal money to protect yourself?
 
Rocketman said:
Congress made the cuts, Obama did not want them
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So then Obama isn't cutting anything since congress is the one that made the cuts. Thank you for clarifying Obama didn't have anything to do with this.
 
Rocketman said:
Congress made the cuts, Obama did not want them
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So you are saying that the fault of this decreased funding and therefore possibly the bombing is the fault of Congress, and like you said, President Obama was against these cuts. :peace :2wave:

ADDED: I didn't see TheNextEra's posting, but I think this needs to be reiterated.
 
Slyfox696 said:
Ahh, so REALLY what you're saying is:



So you're blaming Congress for this. Who in Congress is generally speaking out about the necessity of budget cuts?
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If you would simply learn to read, you would be clear on all of this
 
TheNextEra said:
So then Obama isn't cutting anything since congress is the one that made the cuts. Thank you for clarifying Obama didn't have anything to do with this.
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Obama excess spending on ACA and other things for the lazy ****s of America left Congress with little choice. Obama is a high maintenance whore.
 
Rocketman said:
Obama excess spending on ACA and other things for the lazy ****s of America left Congress with little choice. Obama is a high maintenance whore.
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You're trying really hard to turn this into Obama's fault. Either he made the cuts or he didn't.

It's interesting how the sequester must have passed the House without a single Republican vote. And how Obama and the Senate managed to cut spending without actually doing so. It's almost as if good things soley reside on one side....
 
You could go so many ways with this:

1) As the others are asking

2) Is 10 million dollars in removal devastating?

3) Does 10 million dollars substantially improve the prevention?

4) Don't you have to cut somewhere?
 
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