Leaked prototype of the DOD's latest super-weapon. Should it succeed, America's universal hegemony will be ensured.

President Obama released his 3.83 trillion dollar budget proposal for the 2011 fiscal year today, and as expected, The Defense Department has received the biggest slice of the pie. Further, many of the details regarding DOD budget allocation have been omitted, leading many to speculate about exactly what secret weapons the DOD will develop next. Hugo Chavez, the Presidente of Venezuela, has given his two cents, suggesting that America caused the Haitian earthquake with its top-secret “earthquake gun.”

According to the channel Vive, a report from the Russian Northern Fleet “would indicate that the earthquake that devastated Haiti was the ‘clear results’ of a test of the U.S. Navy through one of its ‘weapons of earthquakes’” . As published on this Venezuelan public media site, it is “more than likely” that the U.S. Navy had “full knowledge” of harm that “this earthquake test could potentially have on Haiti and had pre-positioned their Southern Command Officer, Gen. PK Keen, on the island to oversee relief efforts if needed.”*

On a more serious note, the budget in its entirety can be found at the OMB website, here.  Yglesias makes a good point about the American people’s inability to realize that there is a middle ground between an insufficient defense budget and “defending freedom.” Just like any other department, the DOD wastes money, lots of it, but unlike other departments, actually proposing substantial cuts is tantamount to political suicide.

The President’s “spending freeze” is also, as expected, a joke; omitting national security and entitlements from spending cuts is basically analogous to your average college student cutting back spending on everything except alcohol, food, and coffee.