Posted on 07/29/2009 12:53:27 PM PDT by Jbny
Are proponents of a robust American military seeing their worst nightmares come true?
The military will need to come up with $60 billion in savings over the next five years to pay for new priorities to be set by the Defense secretary, a top Pentagon official said Tuesday.
The order from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is based on an assumption that there will be no real growth in defense budgets over the next five years, a radical departure for a department whose budgets have increased more than 80 percent since 2001.
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One of the driving factors so far in the evaluation is the prospect that defense budgets largely will be static in fiscal 2011 through fiscal 2015, said David Ochmanek, deputy assistant secretary of defense for force transformation and resources.
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Wonder if they sent a thank you note to the welfare/bailout queens on wall street.
This is just anther sign of the End Times.
We’ve just flushed three trillion dollars out into the ether on absolutely nothing at all. So we all need to tighten our belts. We can’t afford to spend money on something when we’ve just blown it all on nothing. Trillions. On nothing.
But don’t worry; that stimulus is going to kick in any day now. Which is why we’re making the military cut their budget in the middle of a war.
Well, lets see
No new F-22
going from 12 Carrier Battle Groups to what? 4? (Navy already getting set up to dump staff)
End the Army’s new battlefield tech
THe Marines get the benut butter end of the stick all the time - what will they have to give up? V-22s? New mortar system?
The military is going to get a whole lot smaller in the next couple of years. Better get whatever overseas vacations and sightseeing done now, while you can.
Tell Holder to go ahead and go after Cheney and them. Because if something else bad happens over here (or maybe I should say when), I want Obama and several of his cabinet secretaries up on capital-murder charges.
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