“$800 toilet seats? so now we are repeating mainstream media lies and hyperbole from the 1980’s?”
Perhaps... But I was in the Navy and I recall dumping hundreds of pieces of VERY expensive electronic equipment over the side of the ship... Hundreds of thousands of dollars of stuff. Just because we had excess.
Maybe that ended when I got out. I doubt it.
The DoD does spend money - sometimes better than others. During war and hell breaking loose, it sometimes is not an efficient enterprise. My father told me of aircraft being dumped off the side of the aircraft carrier because of minor damage during battle.
The DoD acquisition process is hamstrung sometimes by too many wish list "requirements" that cause weapon systems to be too expensive and to take too long to field.
But that does not mean the military is cry wolf regarding Sequestration. I have never seen uniformed flag officers sounding the alarm as boldly as this. Ever. We are in real trouble.
However, the military has already been cut deeply. Obama started these cuts during Obama I, and they are now getting much worse, to the point where our military is literally going to be degraded.
We can't let this happen. Ronald Reagan would not have let it happen.