Posted on 04/12/2010 9:55:13 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Their assignment: Come up with a national security strategy for the United States. So a group of 15 military officers and government employees at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces studied the issue for months -- and decided that, first, consideration had to be given to the economy, which they found is heading toward disaster, even as the recession eases.
The economy, the Seminar 11 group agreed in its report last month, is "the foundation for everything else."
With the nation's yearly deficits running at about $1 trillion and the national debt expected to more than double by 2020, the group -- whose members included U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force officers; civilians from the State Department, Pentagon and U.S. Agency for International Development; and a Mexican Navy officer -- decided that tough actions should be taken beginning next year.
Its primary policy recommendation was to "constrain entitlements growth," and it suggested steps to take regarding the two biggest entitlement programs: Social Security and Medicare.
The group found, as others have, that the fundamental problem with Social Security is that over time, fewer workers will be paying payroll taxes to support many more retirees. The group reported that by 2017, an annual Social Security surplus will become an annual deficit. And by 2041, if no changes are made, the Social Security Trust Fund will run dry.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Obama was required by the Goldwater-Nichols act to present his National Security Strategy to congress in July 2009.
Being president is hard. I guess.
The “key” to national security is having a President who gives a damn about nationa security!
The “key” to national security is having a President who gives a damn about national security!
Gates: national security report nearly done
By BRIAN WITTE (AP) 5 days ago
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday a comprehensive national security strategy report that is months overdue should be finished in the next few weeks.
President Barack Obama is required by law to submit the report within 150 days of taking office.
“We are, I think, within a few weeks of having a national security strategy, but no administration since that legislation has passed has issued a national security strategy with 150 days,” Gates said.
Gates spoke at the U.S. Naval Academy, and he was asked by a midshipman about the report during a question and answer period following the speech.
Gates, who described the deadline as “a completely unrealistic requirement by Congress,” appeared to be demonstrating the theme of his speech, which underscored the importance of naval officers having the strength to disagree with superiors, if it serves the greater good.
“National security strategy is a big deal, and when an administration can’t even get most of its senior officials confirmed within 150 days, I want to know how the hell you’re going to figure out how you’re going to manage strategy in 150 days,” Gates said to applause and cheers.
Gates responded to a question about any tension between civilian policymakers in Washington and the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, about strategy.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hymKL3qorSvD7_R5paOgNHkbDnUgD9EUK7FO0
Not a surprise. History shows us that countries with stronger economies tend to defeat countries with weaker economies in wartime. The other noteworth piece of information is that security helps the economy.
That’s why the economy is under attack by liberals...all by design...it’s not a conspiracy...it’s a mind set...
Capitalism must be first destroyed...before it can be replaced...
“Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families more than seventy million people whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don’t encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let’s not let it happen by default.”
Saul Alinsky rules for radicals
Small problem with his theory....it’s based upon the european population....
Not Americans.
What they are hoping for is a peaceful slide to their fabian socialist utopia...
What they are more likely to get is 1776.
Just sayin’
I’d rather burn my own house to the ground and rebuild it with my own two hand than see it panted red.
and you can quote me on that.
Bet Sarah Palin could draft one in a week.
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