Office personnel more important than troops
Posted on 12/06/2016 7:03:20 PM PST by Cheerio
Amid the growing unrest in the world, our national security should be a top priority. The dangers from terrorists and nuclear weapons are growing. The Pentagon sits as the vital center of our nation’s defense.
It would seem logical that we would need to spend more on our military as threats increase. Under Obama’s administration we saw moderate increases the first few years he was in office. Since then he has stopped pretending and continually cut spending or barely increased it. •Year: 2011—Military Spending: $721,285,000,000
•Year: 2012—Military Spending: $653,424,000,000
•Year: 2013—Military Spending: $633,918,000,000
•Year: 2014—Military Spending: $642,903,000,000
•Year: 2015—Military Spending: $657,336,000,000
This lack of investment into our military puts the United States as a prime target for countries who are committed to spending on their armies. This should not be the goal of any President and yet Obama has chosen this route for our country.
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How much taxpayer money went to al Qaeda as “rebels”?
How much to al Qaeda for their MANPADS through Benghazi?
How much to GAZA to murder Jews and Christians?
How much to Taliban to murder American troops?
and to Syria to murder Christians?
and to Egypt to murder everyone except NAZIs?
So many questions, and no answers until Wikileaks.
...but giving our WORKING military raises was asking too much.
While I appreciate the sentiment, and support an effective military, you don't get there from here by dumping more money on this Pentagon. Most of the money gets lost in the acquisition mess in D.C. with little produced for the war-fighter - Trump's call for the cancellation of the Air Force 1 contract is the tip of this ice berg.
You need to deracinate an entire corrupt crony-capitalist inside the beltway system before you can actually be more effective in military spending.
And its not "an investment." It's an expense. You don't own a capital asset off of which you can generate an income stream.
This abuse of the word "investment" in D.C. is one of those Orwellian distortions that keep anyone from knowing what is actually going on.
Excellent post.
Got to recover those re-enlistment bonuses from the Soldiers in California though. /S
They need to fix it so that it’s not so reminiscent of dropping charity dollars into a third world country and expecting it to get where it’s needed.
..... Well ... I have always wondered what category the Pentagon files the almost limitless cost of the Black OPS Operations under.
Give the Pentagon $100 B and they will spend it on Beltway bandits to put together the power point presentation for the Generals and Congress on why that is not enough to do anything and they really need $500 B.
Bo’s most damaging acts to our military include undermining morale and replacing our warriors and their leaders with sodomites and politicians with a social agenda.
Excellent post, good sir. The defense budget may need more money or may not. I do not know. Donald Trump is a bottom line man and he will know shortly if not before taking office.
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Take a helicopter ride over Potomac Maryland and you will see back off the main roads a large number of embarrassingly large mansions. Like a third world country - that is what all those Pentagon support contract $$ are paying for.
It's a lot of hard work by a lot of corrupt folks to turn a 747-800 with a commercial price tag of $347M into a special order of $14B for a round lot of TWO with delivery before cost over-runs and delays 8 years from now.
One thing is certain: If the injuns had a bigger defense budget, they'd still be in charge here! < /sarc >
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