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Obama Says Defeating Taliban and Al-Qaeda May Be Too “Expensive”
By PoliJAM | November 10, 2009
Asked by ABC News’ Jake Tapper what variables play into his decision making on deciding whether or not he should accept General McChrystal’s recommendation on a troop surge in the Afghan war, President Barack Obama brings up the “expensive” costs of funding the war effort.
“Every thousand troops we spend that’s costing us a billion dollars. Uhh, i-if you send 40,000 troops you’re looking at maybe $50 billion per year above and beyond the costs that we’re already spending.”
So the president of the United States, who’s administration is constantly begging China to buy up more treasury bonds so that he can fund more and more government programs and government takeovers of the private sector, is now saying that $50 billion per year is suddenly too high a cost to win a war and defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban?
The fiscally irresponsible president is trying to all of sudden use costs as his deciding variable because a war is involved?
How much does the president think another 9/11 would cost in lives and dollars if al-Qaeda was able to freely train on Afghan soil?
Calling this new found fiscal responsibility of President Obama “just unreal” and “highly offensive,” Rush Limbaugh lambasted the president in his radio show today.
“Suddenly Obama is worried about money? He’s worried about 50 measly billion dollars to win a war? After $750 billion this TARP money, after a $1 trillion stimulus bill that’s bombing out, on top of $1.2 trillion to $2 trillion for his health care plan and he says it’s expensive to send more troops over there? It’s a billion dollars for every thousand troops, and that’s expensive? All of a sudden this guy is worried about the “expense” of something? Let me tell you what this means. They get all this stuff — health care, another stimulus, all this stuff — we’re going to be in such debt that the pressure is going to be made to cut the budget. Now, you can’t cut entitlement spending because that’s mandated spending. Some might even say that’s unconstitutional.”
President Obama apparently thinks throwing a trillion here, a trillion there in order to enlarge the government is a good investment. But $50 billion to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda? Mr. Obama says, ‘No thanks!’
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