Pentagon requests $15.4B for Space Force
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The Pentagon is proposing a $15.4 billion fiscal 2021 budget for the Space Force, the newly minted sixth branch of the military.
The money, largely transferred from existing Air Force programs, would include $2.5 billion for operations and maintenance, $10.3 billion for research and development, and $2.4 billion for procurement.
“Legally establishing the U.S. Space Force does not guarantee the United States preeminence in the space domain — the nation must commit sufficient and appropriate resources to properly accomplish its assigned responsibilities,” said the Pentagon’s budget overview, released Monday. “These investments will provide for freedom of operations in space, strengthen the mission assurance of capabilities to support U.S. and allied forces in all domains, as well as protecting these forces against potential adversaries’ space-enabled capabilities.”
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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/482373-pentagon-requests-154b-for-space-force
More fucking boondoggles and MIC welfare. And Trump has the nerve to cut food stamps, medicaid and SS disability.
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February 10, 2020 at 9:35 PM #266355
The people on food stamps, medicaid and SS disability, are not on Trump’s major donor list.
We are an arrogant species, believing our fantasy based "facts" are better than the other person's fake facts.
If you are wrong, it will be because you are not cynical enough.
Both major political parties are special interest groups enabling each other for power and money, at the expense of the people they no longer properly serve…
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February 10, 2020 at 9:37 PM #266356
Just what the tax payers need, another branch of the military to suck up our tax dollars!
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February 10, 2020 at 9:42 PM #266360
( in “dumb” voiced monotone ) “Yeah, but they keep us safe!”
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February 10, 2020 at 10:06 PM #266374
And the Generals still complain that China and Russia are ahead of us…
Space is not for militarization. Trump should be hauled up before the ICC and hung right next to *.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Asimov; "If you push something hard enough, it will fall over." - Fud's First Law of Opposition
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February 10, 2020 at 10:13 PM #266378
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February 10, 2020 at 10:29 PM #266383
Space Farce
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February 10, 2020 at 11:16 PM #266415
We should fund the Space Force only if Space Ghost shows up.
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February 10, 2020 at 11:33 PM #266423
Is that all? Pish Posh. 15 billion will barely pay for the golf vacations.
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February 11, 2020 at 12:30 AM #266457
It’ll buy some cool new uniforms, research for designing medals, and really futuristic looking golf carts, too!
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.--Harry Truman
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February 11, 2020 at 12:39 AM #266465
They will get it too with not one freakin’ person asking “how are you going to pay for it?”
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February 11, 2020 at 1:06 AM #266486
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February 11, 2020 at 1:36 AM #266490
I think the first space travelers under this new boondoggle should be Trump, Pence, the entire current cabinet, and the R’s in Congress, the Senate, and on the Supreme Court. One way tickets to the sun for all.
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February 11, 2020 at 2:37 AM #266527
Those camo uniforms ain’t cheap. Space shrubbery is hard to hide behind.
I don't waste my time teaching pigs to sing.
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February 11, 2020 at 4:08 AM #266555
Why don’t Trump just build a space wall around the U.S.?
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