U.S. Military Eyes Cut to Pay, Benefits

Yahoo/WSJ ^ | 17 Nov 2013 | Julian E. Barnes

[Cringing Negativism Network]

No I do not.

I support bringing back American jobs, so that the segment of our economy dedicated to America’s defense remains where it is, and America remains the foremost military power in world history.

We will only do that, by producing things. Lots of things.

Both parties are sending American jobs overseas.

Bring them back. We need to support this massive military we have.

America is the strongest country in world history.

We will not remain the strongest country in the world, with China making all the things we buy.

China will become the strongest country in the world.

China has 5 times America’s population.

Letting China catch up and pass America, will (would) be catastrophic.

And I see nobody, who is doing even one little thing, to stop that.

Bring back American jobs.

[central_va]

The wealth creation stool has three legs: Mining, farming and manufacturing. The stool cannot stand on two legs alone....

[ohioman]

Ok. I certainly do not have a problem with anything you said. Strengthening the military and saying to hell with sending jobs to China is fine with me.

[DuncanWaring]

Not cutting TANF, SNAP, Section 8, Obamaphones, Medicaid, free child care, WIC, government cheese, etc., etc.

Of course not; those aren't "entitlements", those are vote purchases.

[SkyPilot]

During the conference, current and former Defense officials, as well as members of Congress, spoke about the need to approve Pentagon budgets and lift the across-the-board government spending cuts known as the sequester. "You can't expect this country to maintain a strong military if we aren't maintaining some kind of common-sense budgeting," Leon Panetta, the former Defense secretary, said at the forum. "We are sending a message that the United States is going to be weak and that is the wrong message to send." If Congress doesn't agree to lift the sequester, the Pentagon faces $52 billion in cuts in January. About $41 billion was cut this year from military spending.

Betraying our military who give (and have given) more than anyone else in this nation, while we are rewarding the Takers of this nation who have never lifted one finger for America.

Cutting the DoD by $437 Billion even before the $650 Billion in Sequestration cuts, and yet there are still so-called "Conservatives" here who claim the Sequester had "zero effect."

We have our GOP leader in the Senate who has become the nation's #1 cheerleader for the Sequester, and he is going around bragging about it.

Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave.

[DilJective]

As a recently medically retired vet, the care I received during the PEB/MEB and now at the VA are disappointing and costly to all veterans.