Posted on 02/24/2014 3:27:21 PM PST by rightwingerpatriot
Liberals love spending money, especially when that spending is done by big government using taxpayer dollars. However, there is one area where liberals, who throw out gobs of cash for every breath they seem to take, always find themselves cost-conscious and frugal: the military. Yep, government can spend like a drunken sailor on shore leave, but once the military comes into the equation, liberals act like coupon-cutting housewives.
It was announced earlier today that Chuck Hagel has plans to shrink the size of the Army down to pre-World War II levels. It's not just the Army getting whacked as the Navy and Air Force take hits too. The usual platitudes of having a leaner army that will use technology to maintain its edge was given out, but any sane person knows that boots on the ground or the projection of power through carrier fleets are what win wars. The current plan allows the Navy to keep its 11 carriers, but that may change in the future. The awesome A-10 plane will be entirely eliminated despite its exemplary tour of duty over time. The Army is very hard hit with troop strength getting cut back to 440,000 to 450,000 troops after a high of 570,000 after 9/11.
Obama must be grinning ear to ear as his Secretary of Defense guts our military. The common soldier looks to bear the brunt of it. While generals and flag officers get a pay freeze and other soldiers get a one percent increase, there are plenty of other rising costs that will impact those who sacrifice to serve our country. Housing allowances are going to be reduced and prices for goods in military commissaries are going to rise. Medical costs will go much higher as health insurance deductibles and co-pays are increased for both active and retired military. One would think of how this budget is laid out that the normal soldier is just rolling in wealth. The truth is that they do not and their families live under a tremendous burden, all of which is foreign to liberals like Obama. In fact, food stamp use has doubled in the military since Obama took office.
I do think that wasteful military spending should be shut down, but liberals always act like military spending is stealing food out of the mouths of babies. The truth is that we need a powerful military as we're the only nation that acts as a force for good on a global scale. Russia and China are ramping up their aggression, and we'll be hard pressed to deal with them, much less Islamic terrorism that has swept the world. More money is spent on social security and medicare/medicaid than on the military. $625 billion was spent on the military in 2013, while social security got $808 billion and medicare/medicaid received $851 billion. Also remember that spending on those entitlement programs don't include unfunded liabilities, with Medicare's total reaching $43 trillion with a capital T.
I have long stopped trying to figure out what goes through a liberal's head. My dad once told me that a liberal is incapable of abstract thought or reason, and every year he is proven right. Obama and Hagel must believe in a world where if we're just nice to everybody and scrap our military for friendship drums and harmony flowers, then the entire world will love us and all violence will just magically disappear. These are the people (I can't call them "men" as they're anything but) who hold the fate of our military in their hands. God help us.
Just another step on 0bama’s path to gut the military, destroy America, and become dictator for life ( why did he redesign the presidential seal to remove the words “Seal of the President of The United States” - he knows he’s not president, but intends to remain in power as dictator.)
FIFY.
We cannot continue taxing Americans to defend the world. We need to seriously reassess our relationships to determine who are our friends and who are our parasites. We are being lead by the least able representatives in ten generations.
“You go to war with the army you have-—not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.” - Donald Rumsfield
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