Obama kept military spending nearly the same as Bush.Unlike Bush and Trump he didnt increase spending.
Right. So the bullshit about Obama being some sort of fiscal steward is just that - bullshit. That said, it was Trump who said that no one should be allowed to go on holiday if they couldn't balance a budget. Yet here he is, pushing some really stupid fiscal behavior. Just another flip flop.
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/obama-depleted-the-military.335936/ Air Force fears it could be forced to evacuate an entire base after Trump cuts funds to pay for his wall An internal report from the United States Air Force claims that it could be forced to evacuate an entire base in Alaska because President Donald Trump cut crucial funding to pay for his long-promised border wall. NBC News reports that the Air Force has written a report detailing the importance of dozens of projects that have seen their funding cut to finance Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Among the projects is a boiler replacement at Eielsen Air Force Base in Alaska, which the report says is in “imminent” danger of failing. According to NBC News, the boiler in question “provides all electrical power and steam heat for the base” and the Air Force would have to evacuate the entire base if it went down. After this evacuation, the Air Force projects that the base “would freeze and require millions of dollars of repair to return to usable conditions.” Additionally, the report finds that Trump’s cuts will have a negative impact on NATO-related military operations intended to deter Russian aggression in Europe. “Projects to upgrade airfields in Germany, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Hungary and Slovakia have been shelved, leaving the bases unable to support U.S. and NATO airplanes,” NBC News reports. “Construction of storage facilities and fuel supply has also been postponed, ‘directly limiting theater presence and impairing mission capability and readiness’ and support to Operation Atlantic Resolve within Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, the report says.
Remember when Bush took over the bubble economy from Clinton? And then watched as the 8 years of intelligence failures before it came crashing into the WTC on 9/11?
More Bush failure than intelligence failure Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US was the title of the President's Daily Brief prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency and given to U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday, August 6, 2001. The brief warned, 36 days before the September 11 attacks, of terrorism threats from Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, including "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for a hijacking" of US aircraft.