My problem is that plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle will come up with 10 areas in which we should cut the budget -- and 9 of them will be in Defense.
Fine. Cut defense. Tell me stories about parking lots. Tell me horror stories about weapons programs. Fine. Cut it.
But that's so easy to say. Everyone says it. Everyone always says it.
Now -- Talk about the harder places to cut. If a politician won't talk about SS, Medicare, Education, DHS, EPA, USDA, etc -- if the only place they can think of to cut spending is Defense -- then they are NOT interested in cutting spending. All they REALLY want to do is weaken the country.
At least to some extent, when the GOP talks about cutting Defense spending, they are attempting to be fiscally responsible.
When the Democrats talk about cutting Defense spending, they are not thinking about the money. Democrats don't care about that. Democrats just hate soldiers.
Trivial stuff. The main factor which is feeding our bloated and unsustainable Pentagon (a more word than "defense") budget is our effort to police the world. That costs a trillion per year! Let's close down the bases we now have in 120 countries and we can save some real money. If we combine that with cuts in entitlements we can easily balance the budget in a single year.
Trivial stuff. The main factor which is feeding our bloated and unsustainable Pentagon (a more apt word than "defense") budget is our effort to police the world. That costs a trillion per year! Let's close down the bases we now have in 120 countries and we can save some real money. If we combine that with cuts in entitlements we can easily balance the budget in a single year.
Amen. Couldn’t have said it better. Dems have always hated the Military for as long as I’ve been alive..and that is 63 years. But all we are hearing are cuts, no specifics, just cuts, and cuts with no reform are useless. Every program has donor palm greasing built in to them.
0 wants to cut 3,000 CPO to do them out of their retirement, he says we have to many CPO’s, but nothing is said about cutting his country club, golfing buddy Admirals, who already have their retirement in.
TN alone gets half a mil a year to put wild flowers along the highways..via the Lady Bird Johnson highway beautification program. They may be pretty, but they are NOT essential to the running of government. This is one program that could be totally eliminated. One of 12 dozen or more useless programs many FReepers are aware of. Nor are these median plant thingys, that cause more havoc because they were poorly planned. And we have to pay the water bill on top of it.
They are not interested in cutting their pet useless projects.