The Republicans have been complicit in the gutting of our military for the last 5 years.
It HAS to stop - now!
No more defense cuts. Enough.
The military has sustained three consecutive massive cuts, all supposed to be spread out over 10 years. These started in 2009, and now have all overlapped one another:
1. Obama cut defense by $330 Billion in 2009 and diverted the money to his "stimulus" criminal enterprise
2. Obama cut defense by another $487 Billion in 2012, and according to the Weekly Standard, Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, and Ryan were "secretly" on board
3. Sequestration cut another $650 Billion from defense as it must endure 50% of all cuts despite being ~17% of the Federal budget
Now, we have more cuts. Immediately after Hagel announced the further gutting of the military, Obama announced $300 Billion in new "shovel ready" jobs through "highway spending."
Amid military cuts, Obama urges $300B for roads and railways
STOP the cuts to our military and cuts to military families. Now.
The Republicans have been complicit in the gutting of our military for the last 5 years. That's because RiNO's tend to be "wooden-gun Republicans" a la the 1920's. They want to cut Defense budgets so they can reduce [corporate, of course] taxes.
Remember that George W. Bush, during Campaign 2000, rightly excoriated Clinton's degradation of preparedness and drawdowns of ordnance stocks and training time in order to fund operations in Clinton's air war against Serbia.
Then, after the Bush Administration (43) entered office, Donald Rumsfeld sent up a DoD budget that made good the Clinton shortfalls by adding $60 billion, mostly for equipment (replacements, new systems like the Crusader long-range, super-accurate SP gun system).
Bush sent Rumsfeld's eggs back and passed the word to all commands to hold the line on Defense appropriations. Then he sent along a big $60 billion carve-out (formerly known as "impounding" and redirecting funds) for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, aka "Star Wars"). That's a downswing from his campaign promises of about $120 billion, in available Defense funding.
Bottom line, until 9/11, Dubya came into office behaving like a Cheneyesque, Coolidgesque Fortune 500-loving "wooden gun" Republican President determined to send a "peace dividend" to all the blue-haired ladies who tell the top echelons of the Republican Party what to do, and have documentably done so for 75 years.
I mention it, because people forget.