Posted on 11/19/2012 4:29:32 PM PST by WilliamIII
While most large U.S. defense contractors have warned a $500 billion cut in military spending over the next 10 years could be disastrous, Honeywell International today bucked the trend and announced it would welcome the reductions.
During a meeting with investors Mike Madsen, president of Honeywell's defense and space unit said that the company recognizes that a majority of the budget cuts that make up the so-called "fiscal cliff" will happen.
"We're not really fighting these—they need to occur," he said.
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There is a need for military installations outside of the U.S. At the very least it comes down to logistics.
Honeywell is probably looking for a Al Qaeda Outreach Program contract from Barry Benghazi.
Miraculously, all proposed Honeywell cuts are now off the table.
As the military (and the contractors dependent on it) have become social engineering laboratories, I think less and less people care about cuts to spending.
The average person sees little benefit from their tax dollars being spent to house, clothe, and feed troops anymore while they can’t house, feed, and clothe their own families.
I am for cutting any useless government expenditure. We should not spend 1 cent more on the military than we absolutely need to.
The best defence is a strong economy.
A friend “retired” as a local cop last year at 46 (he joined when he was 21); I could imagine what he will cost the taxpayers in the long run (and it will be paid by people toiling into their 70s to do it).
The full-time standing military has no place in a country that will not protect its own borders; why project force around the world when you can’t secure the Mexican border? 9/11 (the justification for a LOT of military expenditures) only happened because there was no political will to deal with people in this country illegally.
That would create a huge power vacuum, which China and Russia would rush in to fill.
Not to mention a few regional wars and a probable world wide conflict.
When an Empire (and we are one) pulls out, the rump states start playing whack your neighbor.
China is hemmed in and is more interested in making money.
Russia is no longer able to project power.
Maybe. China is not as inward looking as you think. They are trying to put a base in the Azores, and have operations in Africa.
Russia dearly wants to reclaim its empire. If the US stepped back, they might decide to make a go of it again. How successful they will be is an open question, but it would be foolish to write them off.
Russia is fire-saleing everything. China can put operations in various places but their government structure is such that they can’t control them as they like. They can’t even deal with citizens out of the country. The person who sits next to me is from China. She is no more communist than any of us and she has no interest in returning or obeying any edicts like how many children she can have.
Chinese are big on assimilation, not domination. They want to go to the US and make a huge pile of money. They won’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Their military is focused west, not east.
Yet they are looking to expand their markets and influence. An apt comparison may be the early British Empire.
Russia is searching for the lost glory of the Third Rome. They have a long history of retrenchment followed by expansion. They didn't get to be the largest land empire for nothing
Oh, I do agree that Republicans in the House should see that the scheduled spending cuts happen. The defense spending cuts are small relative to the rest of the needed cuts, and military spending will be revived when more immediately needed. I would like to have seen more defense spending and far less regulatory and social spending, though.
Who cares if Slobostan invades Whocaresistan. If they threaten us, nuke them. If they dont, let them kill,each other forever. I don’t care.
Let ‘em. Maybe they will become as overextended as we are and go broke.
No, all that would do would bring home service members to facilities that don’t exist. Where is the analyis?
Discharge them. Problem solved.
Yup, discharge 300,000 mid-career soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. Sounds like a good idea to me. Which branch did you serve in again?
USMC, 1981-1984. You?
And yes. Bring them home. Close those bases, and give those who’ve earned them Honorable Discharges. If any country f**** with us, nuke them. No more idiotic wars to nation build. No more spreading “democracy”. F*** with us and go up in a ball of nuclear fire.
End of story.
Your idiocy speaks for itself; go back to Ayn Rand’s fantasy world. Army, 1980 to 2009, to answer your question.
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