There will be TV stories on how Joe's cigarette shop outside Blelp AFB is going to have to close up because of those mean old budget cutters.
P.S. Someone should teach this idiot the difference between "effect" and "affect". She doesn't seem to know.
Those jobs only exist because of the wealth created by the other 70%. We should never look at that dependency backwards.
And the Army awarded a multi-million dollar contract for 70 million rounds of ammunition to Israel Military Industries, for present use in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I guess BAE is just doing the work General Motors doesn't want. And Israeli Military Industries is taking up the slack for Winchester.
It is absolutely ridiculous to take tax dollars for weaponry and spend them overseas. Our own tax-base will suffer, along with military readiness. We need to get the military procurement people to remember on which side their bread is buttered. Make a law, if need be. Tax dollars should be spent here, at home, if at all possible. Jeez.
As a side note, "70 million rounds" would be sufficient to shoot every Iraqi TWICE. Quite alot for an occupying force...
Hopefully closing several in Nevada!
Take that, Harry Reid!
"W" and Sec.of Defense strike again. The President's domestic policies are just depressing. It makes sense to me. The greater our worldwide military committments the greater cuts we make in our military ability. This sounds like something from Ted (the scuba diver)Kennedy.
That all sounds great, but I'll believe it when I see it has happened.
What ever happened to Bush saying he wanted to close foreign military bases? Why not start overseas first?
Perhaps the reason recruitment is down is because prospective recruits are realizing that joining the Army means the real possibility of actually going to war. Imagine that! For over three decades the military sold itself as a great way to learn life skills and pay for college. Too many young skulls of mush signed up not because they loved their country so much they were willing to die defending it, but because they saw all of the posters and commercials telling them how the military gets them in shape, teaches them leadership, takes them around the world and sends them to college all the while paying them a salary with pretty good benefits.
They blows up real good.
Red dawn??
Panamas President Ignoring Chinese Smuggling
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/22/100034
Chinese Enter U.S. Through Virgin Islands
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/10/214414
Gee let's make it easy for them. Let put all our egg in one basket /s