People, In spirit of uniting behind our new president and since I am an advocate of ‘National Security” could someone please enlighten the rest us on Obama’s proposed Civilian Defense Corps?
He brought this up during one of his campaign speeches but I’ve heard nothing since.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y
“We cannot continue to rely only on our Military, in order to achieve the National Security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve gotta have a civilian national security force that’s just a powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.” Barak Obama.
For reference we have something like 3 million people in our Military organizations.
The 2009 Military budget is:
**$965 billion:
• Military Personnel $129 billion
• Operation & Maint. $241 billion
• Procurement $143 billion
• Research & Dev. $79 billion
• Construction $15 billion
• Family Housing $3 billion
• DoD misc. $4 billion
• Retired Pay $70 billion
• DoE nuclear weapons $17 billion
• NASA (50%) $9 billion
• International Security $9 billion
• Homeland Secur. (military) $35 billion
• State Dept. (partial) $6 billion
• other military (non-DoD) $5 billion
• “Global War on Terror” $200 billion [We added $162 billion to the last item to supplement the Budget’s grossly underestimated $38 billion in “allowances” to be spent in 2009 for the “War on Terror,” which includes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan]
**http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm Just to be fair, I used the lefts numbers from the war resistors league.
Presumably those who voted for ‘Our Saviour’ u are in favor of this proposed new defense force. I was hoping that someone might educate me just to what you voted for. What is this new Defense Force going to be chartered with? Just what are Obama’s “National Security Objectives”? I want to support our new President and would like to know how I can help, being a civilian and all.
One other question that has me a bit concerned: What did the Messiah mean when he said that he didn’t think he could achieve all his goals in the first 8-10 years of his Presidency. Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t the Constitution limit that office to 8 years? Perhaps, his plan is to get this fixed along with changing the Constitution to include “Economic Justice” in the Bill of Rights.
People, I would really love to hear your thoughts. Forgive me but I’m just trying to glean a little information on upcoming “change”.
