Robert Gates Plans a Last Hurrah to Control Defense Spending Before Retiring

Yeah, Democrats demonstrated their skill at making cuts in our intel services making us vulnerable for 9-11.

Hopefully Gates will do what should have been done long ago, mainly to scuttle programs for pilaging the budget by inflating contracts in a never ending spending for sake of profiteering. This has wasted more tax dollars than any other area.

So tell me Mr Gates if you are so smart why didn't you halt production of the Stryker Vehicle when everyone who has every assembled one or seen one hit with an RPG knows it is a death trap and is a defective vehichle from design flaws from the beginning! So what does the government do, give the same contractors billions more to build another vehicle. Waste? Please!!!!

If Gates truly wants to start with waste he should start with himeself! Gates knows where the waste really is but he is like all other politicians that are either involved in the waste, or their friends and families are.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted, stolen embezelled, given away with worthless contracts that are way over inflated so that someone or someones can recieve kickbacks from the government each year by government employees and he knows this. Many government contracts are not even needed and when awarded they never deliver what was promised Numerous contracts are duplicated and often they go back and ask for additional money before the contract is over. I know I have seen it with my own two eyes too many times!

Gates like all other politicians thinks everyone in the USA is stupid!

If Gates is goning to crack down on spending why hasn't it been done decades ago. Everyone knows washington has been doing it for decades. Where does he think we live.. We are not stupid but I think maybe he is if he thinks he can put a handle on washington .

Wonder if he'll have to pay higher health care rates like he wants others to do? Don't give retirees a raise, but in next breath want to raise cost of Tri Care, whats wrong with this picture? Make all the Senators and Congress pay for their own health insurance, instead of nursing off the rest of us, make them go WAIT in a room to be attended too, fill out paperwork in triplicate and be told "oh thats not covered by your carrier" you have to pay a co-pay FIRST.
Good Luck with that!

It is amazing.

1. We blame Bush for Iraq and daily count casualties. Obama dammed the surge and General Petrayya (excuse spelling, content is important and sequal of events.) He said the key figure is Bin Laden and he would get him and we should be in Afkanastan. WE are.

2. This is Obama's war and you note, no information of consequence on the war or those who have been caught as terriorists, Fort Hood etc. etc. You note he apologizes for our beloved country which can always use improvments, not destruction!

3. President Obama "quietly" forced McCrystal's resignation. Now, McCrystal should not have shared his views. He should have kept quiet, kept his job and been a good General. In fact, there has been talk that some of what was said he did not even say it but, the handwriting was on the walls, he resigned.

What he said was correct. Obama has no background to be telling General's what to do as he tells Congress what to do. Now you have a Cournell who refuses to escort our president and take orders from him as Obama sets out on another excursion! So, he knowingly will be court martialed most likely.

Obama knows more than all the Military. This is his war and he doesn't know that he has created another Viet Nam and if we leave just as before, it is likely that the Talaban will come in and massaccre all the people. Remember Viet Nam, Congress wanted to leave and they did. Millions were murdered.

Now, Obama has hired General Petrais from the Surge he dammed to help him!!!!!!

He has claimed that military pay will decrease but he has millions or more left in the stimulus money. He spends money like a run-a-way freight train, on himself and on his party and on the terriorists and Foreign Combantants. We pay for the Iman to travel to Saudi Arabia. Doesn't something sound wierd?????

Just look at the patterns and vote in November. And, when you vote you will notice new names as third party! They are written in so there are less votes for R. This is not about party. Business will never be as usual if anyone wants to stay in government. This is our country being taken away.

Please, whatever you vote, vote for R. or D.

Thank you.,

Slash defense spending (which already is flat) so that social spending can be further wildly expanded?!? This will result in another liberally created "hollow force", like the ones in the past, that will have to be corrected at great cost in the future (if we have time).

The consideration to reduce military spending at this time will be one of our worst mistakes in history. We better ramp up our foreign language skills, as we will need them to communicate with who ever takes over our country!!

Gates was a Bush appointee; had you read the article, you would know that. Now, if only we could get a Gates in every single department in the government, perhaps we could survive as a country.