Posted on 02/24/2014 3:27:21 PM PST by rightwingerpatriot
Is anyone surprised?
Military?
Better to spend military money on takers
more of the bastards and they ALL vote dem.
Not me, I’m just surprised it took them so long.
Maybe their “Re-org” wasn’t working out the way it was supposed to? Not enough LBGT????? Whatever else they come up with were willing to put themselves under military discipline and the UCMJ?
Hi. My name is anyone.
Nope.
More money to spend on their “Just as well funded national security force”......
You know shift some of the millitary budget over until they are equal comrade...
This president is GIVING the USA to our enemies...he is a traitor to the Constitution and should be impeached immediately.
I think he means pre-World War III levels.
Now is NOT the time to be gutting military spending. Alter the composition, ok but that would also require a change in mission.
I could see greater reliance on a reserve military. I can see a need for 8 to 10 Active combat brigades and twice that number for Reserve brigades. This would be to ease the rotation and refit necessary to sustain the fighting force. I would also like to see at least one combat or support brigade per 3 to 10 million population centers in the US as part of the National Guard. That would then mean a total of about 30 combat and or support brigade sized NG units throughout the US.
This would be a substantial increase over current force structure and would require changes to the way the US conducts a number of activities. One example would be how the nations pays for Pell grants and student loans. I would like to see that some type of service be connected to such grants / loans.
The military always staffs / trains to the last war.
We will end up about as unprepared for any worldwide conflagration as the FDR regime was in December 7, 1941.
We had war thrust upon us, and we were woefully unready, with the “peacetime” armed services underfunded, and unequipped for much more than horse-mounted cavalry charges with drawn sabers.
The only thing we had going for us that made half-way sense was the ramping up of the industrial base to supply England, beleaguered and going through its darkest days, as the Battle for Britain was raging, and after they had fled Europe at Dunkirk. The US was shipping war material and foodstuffs to England as fast as we could organize the convoys in 1939, 1940, and 1941.
But FDR was also demanding payment in silver from the Bank of England, and shipping it back on the return convoy. England really felt that austerity during and after the war, and when it was over, England was very nearly as bad off as Germany.
We need to maintain our strategic defenses, naval and air to keep foreign dangers at arm's length. And we need to pay the military people what they earned and we promised. But a permanent large army and its missions are totally against our founding principles that conservatives should want to maintain. I hope one day to see our army back to the small size our Founders envisioned.
"The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people." -James Madison
Nope!!!
If the Congress agrees it’s on them.
They stuff defense spending all the time
Obama Regime wants to roll back our military troops levels to what they were prior to the outbreak of WWll, even though our military has been targeted for all manner of cuts for the past 5 years and our national Security has been repeated compromised.
I have a much better idea and one that will show support for the 10th Amendment to our Constitution.
Let us scale back the size and scope of the Federal Government to the same levels that Obama wants for our military.
I think our entire nation would be much better off.
Aside from the fact it won’t happen because Congress won’t allow it (for now), we are seeing the classic guns versus butter battle that great powers face when they are in decline. The welfare state (butter) demands more and more resources and the politicians will eventually cave by reducing defense spending because butter has more constituents.
So what are you going to do about it. It’s all about more free stuff and those politicians handing out more free stuff to those who do no work are going to win - at least until someone stands up to them and sends them packing.
This president is GIVING the USA to our enemies...he is a traitor to the Constitution and should be impeached immediately.
The penalty for treason includes hanging....which in this
case would still be an inadequate penalty for all the crimes
and abuses he and his administration have perpetrated.
All while DHS grows in size. Priorities of a police state.
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