Posted on 11/21/2011 3:03:54 PM PST by dynachrome
Are you willing to cut defense to help cut the deficit?
No. With the state of the world, defense cuts should be the last resort, not the first.
Not sure. Government needs to be cut everywhere, just worried about weakening our national defense.
Yes. Figure out what's needed to defend America and cut the rest.
Other (post your opinion).
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First, there are no cuts. Second, defense is no sacred cow. Cut everything.
You couldn’t cut defense enough to deal with the deficit.
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“there are no cuts”
True that! Spending is not cut, only future budgets.
It’s a good thing there are no cuts in this. The military budget will still rise 16% over the period of the so called cuts, rather than the (I believe) 24% without them.
Exactly!
To even start putting a dent in our deficit and debt, we need to (for the first time) actually start CUTTING!
to claim they can’t find any cuts in a $780/billion a year budget is BS.
Go back to 2008 level spending in all accounts, plus 10% across the board cuts.
Yes, that is correct.
Defense is actually a fairly small part of the budget, surprising as that may seem. Not saying there should not be some defense cuts, particularly in the corrupt Washington in which we live. But that is part of what is called “discretionary spending” (along with NSF and a lot of other things that aren’t “locked in” to the “mandatory expenditures” (otherwise called “entitlements”).
These are things like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security etc, which the cowards in Washington look on as the “third rail”.
But, when we become weak militarily, some others try to take advantage.
Look at China folks, and Obama’s tilt towards the Pacific (actually, as I recall, George Bush tried to propose a much stronger Pacific alliance, but it never went very far). I suspect the next major war in which we are involved will be in the western Pacific. Our allies there are already getting pretty nervous.
Why do you think China is trying to build (or buy) as many aircraft carriers as they can?
As someone with two children serving, I am always haunted by the famous picture of a Brit (as I recall, his name was Neville Chamberlain) getting off a plane from Munich and waving a piece of paper around: “Peace in our time”.
Hitler had given orders to his military that if the Brits or the French opposed his first (I think) incursion, his army should retreat within their own borders. But those two countries did nothing. We all know what happened then.
We can cut the asinine programs foisted on the military by the commies, such things as programs to put women on submarines and all other such “feel good” crap. I’m sure current or recent vets can tell us MANY examples of things which would make our military stronger by their elimination.
Thank you for voting!
No. With the state of the world, defense cuts should be the last resort, not the first. 57.38% (30,923 votes)
Not sure. Government needs to be cut everywhere, just worried about weakening our national defense. 12.07% (6,503 votes)
Yes. Figure out what’s needed to defend America and cut the rest. 29.45% (15,872 votes)
Other (post your opinion). 1.09% (590 votes)
Total Votes: 53,888
I don’t know why anybody here takes the automatic cuts seriously.
Cuts of anything will never happen... in any year... at anytime.
The only ways cuts will happen is when this country collapses.
No. With the state of the world, defense cuts should be the last resort, not the first. 57.26% (33,571 votes)
Not sure. Government needs to be cut everywhere, just worried about weakening our national defense. 11.91% (6,980 votes)
Yes. Figure out what’s needed to defend America and cut the rest. 29.71% (17,420 votes)
Other (post your opinion). 1.12% (654 votes)
Total Votes: 58,625
Freeped ...
On a side note .. someone sent this to me and I wanted to pass it along.. it makes things easy to understand
THIS WILL GIVE YOU A BETTER PERSPECTIVE ON HOW OUR GOVERNMENT WORKS...
Annual Tax revenue $2,170,000,000,000
Federal budget 3,820,000,000,000
New debt 1,650,000,000,000
National debt 14,271,000,000,000
Recent budget cuts 38,500,000,000
Now remove the 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:
Annual family income $21,700
Money the family spent $38,200
New debt on credit card $16,500
Credit card balance $142,710
Total budget cuts $ 385
So you can plainly see why everything is fine and we don’t have to worry.
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