Obama submitted his latest budget today. You know, the one for 2010, the last year before he promises to “freeze spending.” The one that comes just 4 days after Democrats raised the debt ceiling by another 1.9 trillion dollars on top of the 1.4 trillion dollars of additional debt incurred during Obama’s inaugural year.

So what are we going to get for our nearly 2 trillion dollars? More turtle tunnels under highways? Social Security checks for dead people? Bridges for Microsoft?

How about nuclear weapons? That’s right, the man who won last year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his “vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons” has decided to buy some nukes:

However, the associated Quadrennial Defense Review will drop the requirement to fight two major wars. Instead the emphasis will be on fighting a matrix of conventional, irregular and nuclear conflicts. The budget request includes a $600 million increase for nuclear weapons program to a total of about $7 billion.

That is more than NeoCon George W. Bush spent on nukes during his final year in office. And this is what Obama said just five days ago in his State of the Union address:

Now, even as we prosecute two wars, we’re also confronting perhaps the greatest danger to the American people — the threat of nuclear weapons. I’ve embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan through a strategy that reverses the spread of these weapons and seeks a world without them. To reduce our stockpiles and launchers, while ensuring our deterrent, the United States and Russia are completing negotiations on the farthest-reaching arms control treaty in nearly two decades.

One would think that a politician of Obama’s visibility would let at least a few weeks go by before breaking a promise. Then again, why should he start now?

But we know one thing we won’t be getting. Funding for NASA to take us to the moon again. And that makes me sad.

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