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re: Budget Cuts Leave 101st Airborne Crippled
Posted on 3/9/17 at 12:42 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 3/9/17 at 12:42 pm to Darth_Vader
The LAST thing I'd do is give those wasteful SOBs any more money. Between the military budget and VA, we spend over 60% of our discretionary income.
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Posted on 3/9/17 at 12:57 pm to Aubie Spr96
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Between the military budget and VA, we spend over 60% of our discretionary income
National Defense is sort of the original intention of the federal government.
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 1:40 pm to Aubie Spr96
While it is true that the DoD wastes a lot of money (which needs to be addressed ASAP) I do have an issue with this graph.
The difference between the U.S. and all those other countries is how spread out all of our resources are. We have interests all across the globe and I personally believe we should be the one's in charge of protecting those interests. So I do believe we need to spend a disproportionate amount on defense.
So, if for some reason we got into a war with China and they tried to interfere with the shipping lanes they could bring a lot of resources to bear in that particular area. So even if we spend more doesn't necessarily we could defeat a large enemy on their home turf given how thinned out we are.
And to reiterate, I agree about the waste. The DoD did their own study of wasteful spending and then tried to cover up the results because there was so much waste they were worried about getting hit with budget cuts.
Posted on 3/10/17 at 7:11 am to Aubie Spr96
What this graph says to me is 2 things.
1. that we need to quit spending money on useless social justice experimenting and lean up our fighting force. This is not a peace keeping force. Not a social engineering force. A lethal military force.
2. Other countries, particularly our allies in S. Korea, France, UK, Germany need to up their spending and quit relying on us to pay the bill. If they continue to do so we charge them.
I am all for cutting down the wasteful spending (military gender studies, biofuel at $59, obsenly over budget projects) because a lean, efficient organization will always be more flexible and responsive to needs, what ever they are
1. that we need to quit spending money on useless social justice experimenting and lean up our fighting force. This is not a peace keeping force. Not a social engineering force. A lethal military force.
2. Other countries, particularly our allies in S. Korea, France, UK, Germany need to up their spending and quit relying on us to pay the bill. If they continue to do so we charge them.
I am all for cutting down the wasteful spending (military gender studies, biofuel at $59, obsenly over budget projects) because a lean, efficient organization will always be more flexible and responsive to needs, what ever they are
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