It's time to contact your congressman or senator and let them know you oppose the Obama Administration's attempt to cut the Coast Guard budget by 20 percent. Headquarters staffs are studying how they will absorb this massive cut. One thing is certain, cutters and aircraft will be mothballed and units will be closed if this cut goes through. Obama should be looking for ways to increase the Coast Guard budget instead.

Troll.

This sounds like hog wash!

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Coast Guard budget

The Coast Guard’s fiscal year 2010 budget request totals $9.7 billion, an
increase of 4.2 percent over its fiscal year 2009 enacted budget. Of the total
requested, about $6.6 billion (or 67 percent) is for operating expenses—the
primary appropriation account that finances Coast Guard activities, including
operating and maintaining multipurpose vessels, aircraft, and shore units. This
account, in comparing the 2010 budget request to the 2009 enacted budget,
reflects an increase of $361 million (about 6 percent). The next two largest
accounts in the 2010 budget request, at about $1.4 billion each, are (1)
acquisition, construction, and improvements and (2) retired pay—with each
representing about 14 percent of the Coast Guard’s total request. The retired
pay account—with an increase of about $125 million in the 2010 budget
request compared to the 2009 enacted budget—is second only to the operating
expenses account in reference to absolute amount increases, but retired pay
reflects the highest percentage increase (about 10 percent) of all accounts.