Posted on 04/19/2017 7:50:37 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The ‘Rats are a greater threat to US security than the Rooskies...
Gee. They want to cut the DoD budget. I never heard that before. I wonder how much they could pare from State? EPA seems ripe to be clipped a bit. After that, perhaps the Department of Education and Energy could take a hit. Why, before you know it you have saved some real dough. You might even have enough to buy spare parts for our planes and ships. Imagine that!
Agree and completely agree with the layout of this spending plan.
How about we eliminate all welfare for illegals, that would save trillions too.
I can play this game too. No more welfare. For anyone. States take care of their people, or they don’t. After that, it is the family and the church.
Budget planning and possible cuts are fine in theory, but reality is lightyears ahead of budgeting and has a way of adding in costs never thought of (i.e. the rise of ISIS, the return of the Taliban, Al Qaeda in the Sinai and Yemen, and the return of ISIS fighters back to their home countries, just to name a few.
Then add in Russia’s massive military buildup, aggression in Ukraine/Crimea, their threats to Poland and the Baltic States (again), their massive aid to Syria and Iran, and their do-nothing attitude towards No. Korea, Red Chinese expansion, etc.
Also add in Red China’s more than massive military R&D program, naval expansion, nuclear missiles, threats to all of South and Southeast Asia/Sea of Japan, South China Sea, etc.
You can’t put a dollar figure on planning how to take all of these and other as yet unknown future threats in a budget that has to be planned not only for the next fiscal year, but more in terms of weapons-development years, emerging threats (i.e. cyberwarfare), and unknown threats such as biological warfare (i.e. manmade epidemics,etc).
The best laid plans of mice and men go to hell when the first shot is fired.
Trump is the man to deal with it. Sacred cows in the military industrial complex will $hit a brick. Some of them work at the CIA.
Well the Secret Service could cut out a billion or so by forswearing hookers. Stay out of Columbia president Trump the girls there make your minders go - crazy
San Francisco’s Chinatown has many single room occupancy hotels with tenants who don’t speak English. How did they get here? Probably sonsors(their kids) who didn’t live up to their obligation to take care of them.
This article doesn’t directly address how to deal eith the threat of Islam in the US nor in the countries of our Allies.
This article is a load of crap.
Sorry! I couldn't resist!
Return to the militia form of defense, as our founding fathers believed in. Every able bodied American armed with at least a long gun and a side arm with at least annual practice at a range.
All politicians would be required to be in positions up front, on the battlefield.
If you are rich, whatever you can afford. A tank, a fighter jet, a bomber.
The new status symbol of the rich, CEOs, etc., would become these "toys'. No more poking along in the back seat of a corporate or private jet. You learn to fly your own F-16, F18, etc.
You pay for the support crew and maintenance. No more private yachts. You and or your corporation sponsor part or all of a destroyer, sub, aircraft carrier, etc., and ensure the crew is trained for combat.
No more limos. Your limo is a tank, a five ton truck a humvee, etc.
Involvement of all citizens in the military would virtually eliminate wars because everyone would have some skin in it.
If some entity was stupid enough to attack us, we would quickly destroy them, so it is doubtful anyone would attack us.
Our local militia used to have regular turkey shoots out in back of where the courthouse is now. They drilled (marching and firearms handling) on the common.
This was done throughout the country until after the Civil War, when we made the mistake of having a permanent standing army, providing the politicians with the ability to cause havoc using other peoples' lives as they do today.
We would then have the largest military in the world, with little tax expenditure.
The second amendment fight should go away, with almost everyone a gun owner.
Our government would be forced to behave better, both overseas and here.
U.S. protection has becomes a subsidy for the rich.
This article is a load of crap.
After reading through this, I’m struck with the feeling that it was prepared, reviewed and printed out just exactly as intended...
...but then the “wrong” candidate won the election.
(Sorry ‘bout that, Cato. Only thing I didn’t see was Slick or Witchilly’s initials....you certainly got the bulk of Progressive Thought on the subject, though.)
So Obama trashes our military for eight years, and the best Cato can come up with is to cut it more.
They can eat their own crap sandwich. Sorry fellas. Not hungry.
This world was terribly destabilized by Obama and company. This is not the time to signal that we are going to allow the rest of the world to burn, while we count our shekels here at home.
It’s typical Cato institute....notice they justify restraint because of where we are (unlikely to be attacked) plus other so called advantages.
Japan made us look foolish. Don’t think that other enemies aren’t capable of doing the same.
Initial premise is faulty, hence the rest is faulty
You are straight out dekysional
Ha ha. So where is the trillion dollars saved under the period of restraint under obama?
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