Congress puts defense contractors before the troops again!

President Obama made it clear that the old way of spending money on defense contractors is gone, over and done with. No more wasteful spending on things not needed, no more unaccountability and no bid contracts. Congress however still wants to play their game with appropriations. In the process, their stunt of keeping in funding for the F-22 and F-35 has placed pay raises for the troops on the line. Are they out of their minds? This nation is broke! They still want to spend money for this?

Obama threatens veto of authorization bill

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jun 25, 2009 12:58:25 EDT

The Obama administration has issued a veto threat of the 2010 defense authorization bill over disagreements involving two aircraft programs.

But in a departure from the previous administration, the White House has not objected to Congress providing a larger pay raise for troops.

The June 24 statement of policy on HR 2647, the House version of the 2010 defense bill, says the two chief disagreements involve the F-22 and F-35 programs.

On the F-22, the administration “strongly objects” to the bill including $369 million in advanced procurement of the fighter plane.

“The collective judgment of the service chiefs and secretaries of the military departments suggests that a final program of record of 187 F-22s is sufficient to meet operational requirements,” the statement says, warning that if the advance procurement money is in the bill presented to the president, his advisers would recommend a veto.
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Obama threatens veto of authorization bill