yet by his own decisions, president obama has added more debt than any other president before him and more than all the troubled governments of europe combined. one president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt. [boos from crowd] he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgent report. he thanked them, sent them on their way and then did exactly nothing. republicans stepped up with good-faith reforms and solutions equal to the problems. how did the president respond? by doing nothing, nothing except to dodge and demagogue the issue. so here we are, $16 trillion in debt. and still, he does nothing!
president obama has added more debt than any other president before him and more than all the troubled governments of europe combined. one president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt. [boos from crowd] he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgent report. he thanked them, sent them on their way and then did exactly nothing. republicans stepped up with good-faith reforms and solutions equal to the problems. how did the president respond? by doing nothing, nothing except to dodge and demagogue the issue. so here we are, $16 trillion in debt. and still, he does nothing!
only america can do this, as i read a couple weeks ago. there are a lot of other wealthy nations. europe combined has a larger population, a larger gross domestic product. shame on us for enabling this situation where they can t do anything and they expect us to. look at afghanistan, we hear all the time that we need to take the lead in afghanistan. and we need to be there for 2020. if al qaeda reconstitutes in afghanistan it s not like they re going to just attack us. they re going to attack europe. in fact, the most recent argument that i think we should point out, the most recent argument my colleagues have given us, we just thwarted an attack on europe by being in afghanistan. american troops and american money thwarted an attack. europeans have all pulled out. that s terrific. mika, it bears repeating that the cia director says there are 50 al qaeda members spread all across afghanistan. n. ing in afghanistan. we re told our troops need to stay there and we need to spend
over the next ten years by cutting military spending. that s right. texas congressman and military veteran ron paul wants to cut pentagon spending. his progressive partner joins you us presently. more than all the other discretionary spending combined. if you subtract the wars in afghanistan and iraq it accounts for 42% of spending. the u.s. spending more on military spending than during the cold war. it spends more than russia, china, all the middle east and all of nato and the rest of europe combined. a navy that can carry twice as many aircraft at sea as everyone else in the world combined. 57 nuclear submarines, more than the rest of the world combined. with 460 military installations around the globe in 38 countries not including iraq and afghanistan. defense secretary gates has called for cutting 100 billion
over the next ten years by cutting military spending. that s right. texas congressman and military veteran ron paul wants to cut pentagon spending. his progressive partner joins us presently. pentagon s budget for 2010 is $693 billion. more than all the other discretionary spending combined. if you subtract the wars in afghanistan and iraq it accounts for more than 42% of total discretionary spending. the u.s. spending more on military spending than during the cold war. it spends more than russia, china, all the middle east and all of nato and the rest of europe combined. orpgt 11 large nuclear powered carriers, no other country even has one. a navy that can carry twice as many aircraft at sea as everyone else in the world combined. 57 nuclear submarines, more than the rest of the world combined. according to the center for arms control and nonproliferation. with 460 military installations around the globe in 38 countries not including iraq and afghanistan. defense secretary gates has