Secure Freedom Minute
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Tuesday Nov 22, 2011
The Supercommittee Failure
Tuesday Nov 22, 2011
Tuesday Nov 22, 2011
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The congressional supercommittee has failed. So a mechanism Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls the “doomsday machine” has been unleashed. It will wreak havoc on the national security of the United States by cutting another 600 billion dollars from the defense budget. Worse yet, these reductions come on top of the nearly half-a-trillion dollars in cuts the Pentagon is already struggling to absorb.
That means fewer forces in fewer places around the globe capable of defending our people and interests. They will be equipped with obsolescing weapons that may prove inferior to those of their enemies, or inadequate to their missions. We will lose lives unnecessarily – probably of both our troops and our citizens at home.
Eighty-two percent of Americans told pollsters recently that they oppose further defense spending cuts. So should our leaders.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
The Doomsday Machine
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The clock is ticking on your national security. A congressional ‘Super Committee’ has just a few weeks to find 1.2 trillion dollars in spending cuts. If it doesn’t succeed, America’s military will be the principal billpayer, with funding for our troops slashed by some $600 billion. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has called that prospect “the Doomsday Machine.”
He’s right for at least two reasons: First, these cuts would be on top of nearly half a trillion dollars that has already been reduced — or will shortly be — from the Pentagon’s budget. The effect would be not just to hollow out our armed forces, but to eviscerate them.
Second, the world is already becoming a very dangerous place, for us and other friends of freedom. We literally cannot afford to make it more so.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at securefreedomradio.com.