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To: ChrisInAR
"I don’t have much of a problem w/ that....I’m sure there is a LOT of wasteful spending @ the Pentagon."

You've got to be kidding. Wasteful spending is everywhere in the government, and it doesn't bother you that the only place where they're talking about cutting it is in the DoD? Not to mention that a liberal's "wasteful spending" are weapons programs that may very well save all our a**es one day?

If "wasteful spending" is going to happen, I'd rather it happen in the Pentagon than anywhere else. And if you're going to cut "wasteful spending", start somewhere else first, like say the the departments of Education, HHS, Commerce, etc. DoD is the last department that should take budget cuts!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

23 posted on 04/05/2009 2:27:20 PM PDT by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? Go to www.myspace.com/rockfromtheright)
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To: wku man

I will say one thing, our procurement process does waste a lot of $$ and is ripe for reform. I am retired military myself and didn’t realize how wasteful system program offices were until I got out and started my own company. Too many mindless meetings & reviews (usually with a cast of thousands), too much PowerPoint engineering, too many ECPs & schedule changes for no good reason, too much pointless TDY, and too many support contractors (including former military) who create more problems than they solve.


31 posted on 04/05/2009 2:53:11 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: wku man

I personally would like to see the Departments of Education, HHS, Labor, Commerce, Energy, Homeland Security, & Transportation ELIMINATED entirely....not to mention other Bureaucracies, Agencies, & Administrations that have no Constitutional Purpose or that is already being accomplished elsewhere by the fedgov.

THAT is the best way to cut wasteful spending, IMO.


36 posted on 04/05/2009 3:21:28 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: wku man

You’ve got to be kidding. Wasteful spending is everywhere in the government, and it doesn’t bother you that the only place where they’re talking about cutting it is in the DoD? Not to mention that a liberal’s “wasteful spending” are weapons programs that may very well save all our a**es one day?”

The democrats passed $1 TRILLION in wasteful spending and called it “STIMULUS”. These cuts are all going towards the ever-expanding-welfare-state.

Let’s see, we have:
1. Tax the producers
2. Spend the Government into bankruptcy
3. Defang our military

If someone was deliberately trying to destroy America, they could not have come up with a better plan.


42 posted on 04/05/2009 3:42:29 PM PDT by WOSG (Why is Obama trying to bankrupt America with $16 trillion in spending over the next 4 years?)
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