I don’t know what to think as far as defense spending cuts, SkyPilot. Some say defense is way too bloated; that there are areas where waste can be eliminated. I guess that’s where Paul is saying it doesn’t worry him too much. The problem may be with WHO is determining where waste is and where the cuts will be.
obama et al deciding that we can not have two carriers in the Persian Gulf is pure manipulation of our military readiness in the region for politics. Why congressional leaders aren’t screaming about the fact that he is playing politics with our security is beyond me. I guess the ruling class has grown accustomed to obama’s willingness to put the US at risk to get his way and see it as the same ol’, same ol’.
Have you heard Republicans scream about anything?
They have not taken O to court on his Executive Orders. Someone took them to court on the recess appointments of the NLRB members, but not on other recess appointments or EOs.
O has run roughshot over all notions of checks and balances, and the GOP stands mute.
The GOP is totally off the field and in hiding.
They alloowd that tratorous bastand Kerry to have a love fest in his conformation. There were so many unanswered qiets about his treason, but he got a total pass.
Now with Hagel we have a solitary Senator (Cruz) with guts or curiosity and he is being branded “McCarthy” by both sides of the aisle, even through Hagel is the worst nominee in history.
Have you heard Republicans scream about anything?
They have not taken O to court on his Executive Orders. Someone took them to court on the recess appointments of the NLRB members, but not on other recess appointments or EOs.
O has run roughshot over all notions of checks and balances, and the GOP stands mute.
The GOP is totally off the field and in hiding.
They allowed that traitorous bastand Kerry to have a love fest in his confirmation. There were so many unanswered questions about his treason, but he got a total pass.
Now with Hagel we have a solitary Senator (Cruz) with guts or curiosity, and he is being branded “McCarthy” by both sides of the aisle, even through Hagel is the worst nominee in history.
You make some valid points.
Here is the Reader's Digest version of what is going on.
http://www.dailypress.com/news/military/dp-nws-milupdate--0218-20130217,0,613825.story
Despite what Rand Paul and Rush are saying, these are not "baseline budget" tricks and the military is not "crying wolf" as even some Republicans have irresponsibly charged last week.
When Obama and the Democrats dreamed up the Sequester, they never thought the Republicans would agree to gut Defense (18% of the budget, yet it must take 50% of the cuts). All parties know this will hurt the economy (probably 2 million jobs total lost with Sequester), it will cause deep harm to the military, and it will break faith with our men and women in uniform.
The Republicans basically gave up with the Sequester during the Fiscal Cliff negotiations in Dec/Jan and only decided to focus on taxes. News reports said even the Democrats where shocked that they had to bring up the cuts - the Republicans were no longer interested in discussing them. All they did was delay them 2 months, and now they are here.
This is going to be a disaster. Obama is off playing with his homosexual golf buddy boy-toys, and the nation's military and economy are about to go off the real cliff.
The Republicans are like that character in the movie "Armageddon." They have decided to "Embrace the horror."
It is a terrible strategy, but the Tea Party "burn it all down then!" wing has won. The military is going to suffer a cut beyond the 13% across the board cut, because they have to take most of the money from Operations and Maintenance.
This is going to be bad. Don't let anyone fool you. Believe me.