It's time Europe paid for it's own defense,,,

I feel like a Ron Paulbot now,,,,

wheelrite wrote:

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

Obama will call on Congress to give him a type of reorganizational power last held by a president when Ronald Reagan was in office. The Obama version would be a so-called consolidation authority allowing him to propose mergers that promise to save money and help consumers. The deal would entitle him to an up-or-down vote from Congress in 90 days.

It would be up to lawmakers, therefore, to first grant Obama this fast-track authority and then decide whether to approve any of his specific ideas.

Obama was expected to announce his plans Friday. The official confirmed the details to the AP on condition of anonymity ahead of the president's event.

HockeyDad wrote:

Okay so great we reduce our expenditures overseas, however now those 100,000 dependents need to sell homes, uproot years of community, lose jobs and come home to no work here and no chance to get a mortagage should they find work.
I don't know any active military but I would have to belive that at that pay scale most spouses have to work to make ends meet. Shrinking the military and bringing these people home just might be more costly to us as taxpayers then leaving them in place.