Donald Spurgeon - September 18, 2012

Two Words! Hell Yes! The cutting of the military at this time seems really, really stupid! The Middle East is exploding Thanks to our fearless leader! He who said that the Muslem World would be totally different after he was elected. He was right it is even worse than before he was elected. This President is a total failure!

Elsie E Connelly - September 18, 2012

Most definitely they should reconsider, but when you have a sitting President that is anti-american, what can you really expect.

Susan Stolzenbach - September 18, 2012

Obama’s cuts are criminal. We must protect our borders, and the Coast Guard needs to be supported, same as any other military branch.

Jerry Murphy - September 18, 2012

I say cut the Coast Guards budget along with all the other government budgets. They are all bloated. When I see the Coast Guard patrolling the Mississippi river in St. Paul, MN and now wanting to take over Mille Lacs lake in central MN, they like all the other government organizations, have reached too far. What in “Coast” don’t they understand. If they weren’t patrolling rivers and lakes they would have enough to patrol our coasts.

Zoli Althea Engel - September 18, 2012

Our Nation requires a defense fund appropriate to the threat within and without our boarders. We can ill afford a hug-the-enemy president who chooses to ignore real threats and uses funds to undermine our defenses rather than strengthen our reserves.

E Hodgdon - September 18, 2012

Yes, President Obama MUST not further cut the military. We are leaving ourselves vulnerable to attack.

Jean Reynolds - September 18, 2012

I think the Obama Administration should not only re-think about the military cuts,

They should also think about re-signing.

natch - September 18, 2012

No.

Dale Athanas - September 18, 2012

Defense cuts other than to limit obvious cases of waste are totally unacceptable, foolish and dangerous. Where are the leaders in Washington?

Marge Peters - September 18, 2012

What is going on ?? Cutting money for our defense is crazy. China has a new air- craft carrier coming out in 2015 and Russia has nuclear submarines that are much better than anything we have. I guess no one cares!!!!

Bethany Kemp - September 18, 2012

This is unacceptable! The DOD cuts are horrible as well when Congress approved $760 MILLION FOR CONTRACEPTIVES FOR WILD MUSTANGS???!!!!
These people are traitors! We are financing our own destruction, i.e. Libya, Egypt and all Muslim countries we are sending millions to! They have declared they WANT OUR DESTRUCTION! When will we wake up, or is it too late???!!!

Anna Lee Earnest - September 18, 2012

I don’t think cuts should be made in the Coast Guard.

Navajo21K - September 18, 2012

It is a disgrace for our government to pander to illegal aliens, foreign hostile Muslim nations, Russia’s Putin, domestic Muslim terrorists (ie: Muslim Brotherhood) and a few militant homosexuals — while our own energy is untapped, our cities are overwhelmed with drug gangs, our nation’s defense structure is being gutted by this regime, and child mollestation runs rampant and largely unpunished! ! ! !
We Must Make a CHANGE! ! !

William M Snedden - September 18, 2012

I’m beginning to think NOTHING the Obama administration makes any sense (unless you believe he is set on destroying America). The defense cuts might be easier to handle if we were to stop spending so much of the Defense budget helping other countries!

Bring more troops home, close down the bases we have now in the US Empire all over the world. Then maybe we could manage to update and buy a few new Coast Guard ships to protect our own borders!
This makes me one more ANGRY American.

Ellen - September 18, 2012

Yes, we should reconsider the sequestration cuts that limit our nation’s defenses. Our nation’s security should be top priority. Without the proper resources the Coast Guard will not get the equipment it needs to protect our borders and our waters. We are up against a powerful enemy and we can’t afford to let our guard down.

Royce Boon - September 18, 2012

I definitely do think the administration should rethink it’s plan to cut our defense capability. However, I believe Obama wants to diminish the influence of the U.S. in the world and that this will leave us vulnerable to a degree that is totally unacceptable.

Robert Calabro - September 18, 2012

Sequestration will be a disaster for America. It should be repealed. The Federal governments first obligation under the constitution is to protect us! We cut the military too much after the cold war ended. Remember the peace dividend. Because of these military cuts, our brave men and women had to do two and three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. These poor people have come home with mental and pysical problems. We will take care of them! When will we learn the lessons of history? Regards Robert Calabro.

Jeanne Eddy - September 18, 2012

We need our defenses and this is one of our strong defenses: the Coast Guard.
There is no acceptable reason for us to underman our defenses.

Cam - September 18, 2012

We all would respect cutting waste and fraud in our defense depts. But when an administration does not believe in borders and sovreignty, we get actions like this. Please Lord let Mitt not be as big a globalist.

Sharon Minton - September 18, 2012

The destruction to our national security has already progressed through the asinine act of cutting our defense spending. My first concern was the front line defense at the Mexican border; yes, the drug war is as strong from the Mexican, South American, and Cuba drug manufacturing and cutting our defense spending is a well-planned Administrative strike against our Country.

Ken Bates - September 18, 2012

The Administrations efforts to reduce this Nation to cow dung should not prevail.
We are proud Americans who have defended this Nation and support our Constitution and will continue to do so until we are no longer able.

Retired and a Veteran

William Chase - September 18, 2012

Our current president must have read “The Road To Surfdom”, because he is following it to a tee.

Wendy - September 18, 2012

Mr Obama is an obvious infiltrator of the Muslim world who is bent on destroying the infidels(USA). He may succeed if we do not stop him. The 42% that are fed from his cup, are intentional and detramental to all. Our only hope is to remove the ulser as soon as we can.

J E Houser - September 18, 2012

Absolutely NOT. That old, discorded document called the Constitution set national defense as the first obligation of the federal government. Also, Everyone knows drugs are harmful, but the federal government does NOTHING about it, and allows the its importation.

Rodney Galles - September 18, 2012

we need to ensure the damage ends on 20January 2013 with the inauguration of Mitt Romney. Any thing less will result in the rape of our armed forces to the level of the Balkan countries, and the loss of hundreds of years of warfare experience.

We need to end the alphabet government brought in by Roosevelt, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, and Obama. The Constitution does not entitle people to draw unemployment insurance: end it. Welfare is a Church or state responsibility, not the federal Government: end it. A.griculture is local, not federal: end subsidies and ethanal production. end NLRB, national endowment for the arts, national science foundation. End federal subsidies for mortgages. end the federal reserve. End the progressive income tax and install a flat tax for every one who earns more than 1000 dollars a year. Restore state selection of US Senators. Restore and codify the electoral college with winner take all to ensure each state gets a say in the election of a president.

End the sequestration of Defense Department and Coast Guard. Use the monies saved by reductions in salaries and costs to federal government by the elimination of the alphabet agencies. Bring reserve ships out of mothballs, hire more sailors and restore the 600 ship Navy including 12 carrier groups. Bring the B52 bombers and B1 bombers back. Build more b2 bombers. The start speaking softly but wield a big stick again. The resulting boom in employment will cover the sequestration shortfall.

James Hereford - September 18, 2012

DO NOT weaken our Defense!

Robert E. Black - September 18, 2012

Yes. Stop the stupid idea of sequestration.

Allen - September 18, 2012

Oh cry for me, I know we need new boats for the Coast guard, but the Air Force has been flying the B-52 for 50 plus years. I worked on the B-52 system while Reagan was the Commander in Chief, and someone else is still working on them today.
Our entire Military needs an upgrade, so please don’t start picking favorites. Just get Obama out of office now!

John Smith - September 19, 2012

They should, but I know that they will not.

It’s my guess (from watching their habits) that the administration probably want these bad guys here.

I know that I’m attacking their character a bit with that, but I prefer to judge blatantly on things that appear evident to me.

T D - September 19, 2012

I think the answer is obvious but he buys more votes from the welfare recepients than he does the military for his position has been and is more than obvious – He disdains them. Therefore he would rather send our money to them. His position on security and closing the borders is also obvious. But the one thing the Democrats have counted on and they are absolutely correct is an uneducated voter and that is how this marginally documented president gets away with it. Well that and not actually enforcing the laws or following them himself.

Oscar Brown - September 19, 2012

This administration has a nasty habit of cutting off its nose to spite its face. The cuts to Defense should never have been there in the first place.” 2016″ — this president desires to punish our nation, rather than defend it. You have to follow the evidence.

Robert Kruger - September 19, 2012

Mr. President, I strongly urge you to reconsider your cuts in national security such as the coast guard vessels. National security is you most important job, by far. Make your cuts in entitlement areas .,it is critical!!!,
R.Kruger

Mark Mosley - September 19, 2012

This administration is keeping true to form with this decision, they have not made an intelligent decision to date. Unfortunately, our standards for placing people in political office, has over the past several years, declined drastically. This decision is about as smart as taking one of our naval battle groups out of service. Go figure.

Donna Lewis - September 19, 2012

We need a strong military to protect our country. It seems as if there are more places against us than for us so why would we decrease our protection.

maryjo shannon - September 19, 2012

Cuts need to be in entitlement programs, not the forces that are protecting our security.

Don Hutchinson - September 19, 2012

Yes I do! If we keep cutting our military funds we will have no defenses for our country. As a former soldier I believe we should be the strongest country in the world. That is the only way we can keep our enemies from invading us.

Dennis Crouch - September 19, 2012

The Sequestration approach is without merit and our government has let us all down. Obama had Gates reduce the DOD budget $487B and now, another $600B under sequestration??? The most important task or our government is to ensure our National Security an make certain the safety of the United States. The Obama administration is throwing that need to the wolves! Appeasement is not a strategy, it’s a death sentence.

Lou - September 19, 2012

It’s time to start articles of impeachment. Even if they go no where, maybe it will send a message.

Lura L Hacker - September 19, 2012

Reconsider? Of course, yes, affirmative and on and on. What is it about the present circumstances and those looming on the horizon the administration can’t understand?

john booth - September 19, 2012

Another “HELL YES” !!!
And as soon as possible.

Dean G.Newman - September 19, 2012

The primary responsibility of the federal government is to protect our country and its people. Diminishing the ability to do so is a gross deficiency of the Obama administration.

Ed Webster - September 19, 2012

Another example of Obama Admin indifference toward national security and ill-concealed hostility toward the military. The answer must be to clean them out Nov 6 rather than agonize over who they are.

John H. Johnson - September 19, 2012

The Administration and Congress have several duties as specified in the Constitution – “protect and defend”……the cuts should be made to the Departments.of Education, H & S, Commerce, Labor, the EPA and Energy. Cut Obama-care and the Federal Bureaucracy by 5% and this will enable us to help defend ourselves. Otherwise, we are on the brink of imploding!

Grace E. Pratti - September 19, 2012

YES, WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER
TO PROTECT AMERICA AND KEEP THE COAST GUARD GOING.

Grace E. Pratti - September 19, 2012

YES, WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO KEEP AMERICA SAFE AND THAT MEANS KEEP THE COAST GUARD GOING.

Grace E. Pratti - September 19, 2012

GRACE E. PRATTI 9/19/2012
YES, WE NEED TO PROTECT AMERICA AND THAT MEANS KEEP THE COAST GUARDS.

Joe Capuano - September 20, 2012

There are places in every department in the federal government that can be eliminated. If Some gets promoted the 1st thing they do is try to hire 2 people to do their previous job and make sure they do not have too much to do in their new job. Cut those jobs and put money into what is needed to insure the safety of America, aka USA. Mouch aka Bammy aka Hussein Obama is anti us military and it ie obvious.

kim - September 20, 2012

My nephew is in the Coast Guard and has been complaining for months that they cannot get the needed parts for repair due to the cuts to the budget.
We need to fund the Coast Guard in order to protect our waters and borders. This is another defunding that weakens our defenses.

James Rooney - September 20, 2012

This President does not concern himself with threats to our security as nation. Loss of security and it impact on our society is not an issue for him. That is now clear. Pressing on with his ideology is his first and maybe “only” purpose. More uniformed heroes are made that way as more lives are lost defending our nation ill equipped for the job. That Murphy comment on Sept 18th does not know about which he is speaking. I spent more than 30 years in that uniform in the Pacific, on the Great Lakes and the Atlantic area on ships and shore activities. There never was a time when we had everything needed for the job. Mr Obama is not enough business oriented to know how to properly set priorities. But he does know how to “pad” those programs that serve his ideological bent.

R0y Draper - September 20, 2012

Obama continues to sell out the store. Unfortunately, the store itself is beginning to look a little shabby. Not the store I remember while growing up during the WW II years. He should reconsider the cuts to the military and a lot of the other crazy ideas he has espoused, but I think that all of us know he won’t.

Linda G. White - September 20, 2012

I think the Obama administration should reconsider the sequestration cuts that limit our nation’s defenses without making it a politicial football so that he can raise taxes. It should be a national security issue, not a tax issue.

Cheryl - September 21, 2012

What is being done by this administration is close to being treasonous to the pledge made to “defend” this nation from foreign and domestic harm. By cutting funding to the military at a time when we are being targeted for attack is ludicrous. When are the American people going to awake out of their entitlement-receiving stupor and fight back against the stripping of our rights guaranteed by our Constitution. By the way, those who are doing this don’t feel our constitution is a relevant document anymore…excuse me? I am disgusted at the lack of loyalty to the very documents that guarantee our freedoms!

Roxanne Koller - September 21, 2012

This person currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has been systemetically disarmming our country since he got in there! This latest move does not surprise me in the least. He must not be allowed another term to do his worst to this great country!

Bill Wainscott - September 21, 2012

It is this Administration’s decisions like this that makes this election of President, Vice-President, Senators, and Congressmen the most important election in our lifetime.

Blanche M. Wallace - September 22, 2012

So, who do you think will be blamed if terrorists get past the Coast Guard and kill U.S. citizens? Certainly not Obama. You guessed it – Bush will be to blame.

Holly Chapo - September 22, 2012

Absolutely.

debra - September 23, 2012

YES! Obama’s intent for America includes this. It is one more step to weakening America. Making us more vulnerable to outside attacks and forms of destruction.

Joy Whiy - January 9, 2013

Most of all NO cuts should be made to the USCG.They are to small now they should have all the money they need to keep us safe. We are putting our USCG in danger when they do not have what it takes to to the job.The USCG budget is way to small.