Objma Vetoes Defense Bill : National Defense? Who Cares

If you haven't noticed, the ideology and agenda of the progressive socialist liberal democrats has nothing to do with national security, it is and always has been about taking power from the individual to gain an advantage for their agenda of "fundamental change". Limit the individuals options to succeed through agency unconstitutional laws and regulations that forces subsistence. Objma says we have to keep the free stuff coming so everyone can be irresponsible.

That Mr Objma vetoed the defense bill to advance his domestic agenda spending is nothing new, and that it places the nation at risk is of no concern to him, and never has been his concern from the beginning of his time in office. Mr Objma is driven to destroy this country as it founded, and as time and history shows, he is succeeding.

Worst of all, the general public doesn't seem to understand what he is doing or they don't care. As long as their smart phones still work, all is well. Ever heard of the frog in the pot of water swimming around, having a good time, until the heat was applied???


Why Obama Should Not Be Using Our Military for Political Leverage
Justin Johnson / @jus10j          

President Obama will veto the defense authorization bill today with a photo-op, and by doing so will highlight Washington at its worst. Instead of dealing with the bill on its merits, Obama is using the defense bill for political leverage. This is the wrong way to handle our national security.

Many Americans rightfully find Washington’s way of doing things disturbing. Instead of treating issues individually, politicians will often attach unpopular policies to popular bills in order to ram them through. For example, just this summer, members of Congress were trying to attach the Export-Import Bank reauthorization to the Highway Bill, two completely unconnected issues.
Conservatives and liberals alike find this practice of linking unconnected issues disturbing. A particular proposal or issue should be considered on its own merits. If it can’t pass alone, it probably shouldn’t pass.

 

Holding Defense Budgets Ransom

If Congress shouldn’t do this, than the president shouldn’t either. But that’s just what Obama is doing by vetoing the defense authorization bill. The president is not vetoing the defense bill for any policies that are in the bill, but is simply using the veto for political leverage to increase non-defense spending.

To be clear, the defense bill cannot increase non-defense spending. In fact, the defense bill doesn’t spend any money—it just establishes authorized budgets and policies for our military. But in this case, the facts don’t matter. Obama has been clear that he wants more spending for his domestic, liberal priorities and he is willing to use the defense bill as leverage.

Important Reforms
This defense bill has a wide range of important provisions, some of which the president may not like. The bill keeps terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It provides for lethal defensive aid to Ukraine. It cuts overgrown Pentagon bureaucracies and begins reforming the military’s retirement system.
A debate about any of the provisions in the bill is legitimate and important. But vetoing the bill for political leverage is not how Washington should operate.
What makes this move by Obama even more concerning is that non-defense spending has been steadily increasing, while defense spending has been steadily decreasing. Since 2008, non-defense discretionary spending has increased by 7 percent while defense discretionary spending has decreased by 14.6 percent.
If you include the major entitlement expansions under Obama, the numbers are even more striking. Social and economic spending has increased 37 percent from 2008 to 2015.
In short, the president’s domestic priorities have been seeing significant funding increases while defense has been cut, but the president wants more and is willing to hold defense at risk.
Obama should not be using our military for political leverage. The budgets for the president’s liberal priorities have gone up significantly while he has been in office, but the president isn’t satisfied and is willing to use a national security bill as leverage for more. Vetoing the defense bill in order to increase domestic spending is wrong and is Washington at its worst.