5-SIDED RATHOLE
More, more more – with no exit strategy or positive plan in sight. More we don’t have, more piled higher and more precariously onto the deficit and the national debt. (emphasis added)
The U.S. Air Force has asked the Pentagon’s leadership for $50 billion in emergency funding for fiscal year 2007, defense analyst Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute said on Tuesday.
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A source familiar with the Air Force’s plans said it was also seeking additional funds to help pay for the transportation of a growing numbers of U.S. soldiers who are being killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Air Force’s emergency budget request is just less than half the $105.9 billion it requested as its base budget for fiscal year 2007, which began on October 1.
Lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned about the huge sums being requested and approved ‘off budget’ to fund the wars, since these funds are not subject to the same level of congressional oversight as regular budget requests. Article
