Because Barack Obama and His Stupid Minions™ are terrified about being accused of being soft on defense,* that his future budgets will by expensive high tech weapons systems at the expense of operations, maintenance, and readiness:
U.S. spending on weapons through 2016 likely will grow faster than the overall defense budget, which will have annual increases of only about 1 percent above inflation, according to Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale.
“Our goal would be to get forces and modernization to grow by 2 or 3 percent,” Hale said in an interview, while saying that “it’s not a given.”
So Obama intends to spend money on crap we don’t need, thereby diverting money from the crap we do need
Of course, the fact that we are already spending more money on defense than at any time since the end of the 2nd World War, and he’s still trying to increase the defense budget in real terms just buggers the mind.
Republicans support wasteful defense spending because:
- It’s easy to demagogue.
- They find defense contractors an easy touch for donations.
- They want to ruin our finances so that we have to make cuts in social programs.
The Democrats support wasteful defense spending because:
- They are afraid that Republicans will call them names.
Truth be told, I am not sure which one is more pathetic.
*It won’t work, the Republicans will run against you as soft on defense anyway. As the saying goes, “The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one.”