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To: Tax-chick
“The President proposes to slash the Coast Guard’s funding by $75 million below last year’s budget and reduce the number of uniformed personnel by more than 1,100 positions,” she said.

Sickening.

18 posted on 02/24/2010 3:39:14 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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I’ll say. Anoreth’s cutter is older than I am, and that’s getting pretty darn old. And we sure need nuclear-powered icebreakers.

But it’s just the proposed budget. The CG has friends in Congress - hopefully this won’t happen.


32 posted on 02/25/2010 3:02:17 AM PST by Tax-chick (Cheeseburgers, parrots, volcanos, boats, rum, kittens, machine guns ...)
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