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Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars by ghurtado on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:42AM (#12685414)
> Obama and liberals in general assume unicorns will come protect them and that the military is bad.

Obama increased the military budget during his administration by over $800 Billion compared to his predecessor. [1]

If you're going to make a partisan "thanks, Obama" comment, at least pick something that is supported by facts.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...

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Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars by fail2fail2ban on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:56AM (#12685573)
Check this fact, see the graph:

http://www.cfr.org/defense-budget/trends-us-military-spendin...

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Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars by ghurtado on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:32PM (#12686532)
Even those graphs show that the military budget is higher now than it was when Obama took office. None of this is really helping to support your point about unicorns at all.
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