Posted on 07/26/2011 6:25:31 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Right Turn has obtained a memo from House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) to Republican committee members analyzing the defense cuts in the Reid plan
Based on our analysis the [Reid] proposal would result in $868 Billion in defense cuts over 10 years when weighed against the FY11 budget request. Immediately the plan would cut defense in real terms below the FY11-enacted level of $553 billion and hold defense below the FY11-enacted level through FY13. It represents a $16 billion cut to our FY12 levels for next year and a $26 billion cut for the following year. Let me be clear, this is a real cut. It would have a disastrous impact on our military and we wouldnt be able to carry out our missions. As I stated in the Gang of Six analysis, since the President originally submitted his budget proposal for FY2011, defense has already shrunk $439 billion over 10 years.
This number may sound familiar. It is the Gang of Six defense cut number, isnt it? My, no wonder the president offered support for Reid (before he beat up, in primetime, plans that contained no tax hikes).
McKeon also points out the issue identified yesterday, namely the $1 trillion in phony savings from winding down the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He explains: This gimmick first assumes an extension of the troop surges in Iraq and Afghanistan through the next ten years, and then assumes the surge level will wind down on time for budget savings. This is a gimmick and should be treated as such, everyone knows the wars are winding down. This does nothing to change the spending habits of Washington.
Whatever the bobble in the Boehner plan due to different baseline numbers, the House speakers proposal does not savage defense in this
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cut the wars...but the pensions/medical is also way out of line....I say that as one who eventually get in on some of that....
All part of the master plan.
I have to admit I think the Tea Party elections really screwed up obama’s plans to destroy this nation. But it hasn’t stopped him from continueing to try.
There is only one person I can think of who has the sand to tackle THAT project....reducing the number of bureaucrats in DC....and that is Sarah Palin. I believe anyone else you can name would whimp out when the media began to scream bloody murder and call them names!
Eliminate the Depts. of Education, Energy, etc? It will take a person with a 303 Stainless Steel backbone to even MENTION something THAT meaningful!
If there are REAL cuts unemployment is going to shoot through the roof. Where are the fed employees going to go?
As I’ve said on other threads, there will be no savings because all those laid off will be replaced by the federal police needed to quell the riots. In fact, the government will probably just transfer them to the new National Police and Riot Intervention Agency.
First you pare down the missions, then you pay for the downsizing.
Then you cut the budget.
Reid wants to do it the bass ackwards.
Projecting power ruined Hapsburg Spain, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Hopefully before we join that list, we'll return to the traditional Constitutional role of defense of defending the USA homeland and the sea lanes and let the rest of the world bear their own burdens of their own dangerous world. That way we get relatively economically stronger and our potential foes would get economically weaker which is good for relative US power and our real security.
Harry POS Reid ALERT!
Before we ever get to Defense...how many of these agencies can we DEFUND & DISMANTLE?
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
I don’t get it.
We spend more than China, France, United Kingdom, Russia, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Italy, India, Brazil, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Israel, Netherlands, Greece and Colombia combined.
Excluding France, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Spain, Israel, Netherlands, Greece and Colombia we outspend (about) the rest of the world combined.
We can afford a cut in defense spending which has increased 44% since the Democrats took congress in 2006.
Cutting the military this deep at this time, will put our troops at risk. Wait until the troops are home. Cut foreign aide, except to Israel, cut a lot of money to the UN, cut Obamacare, Dept. of Education, ACORN (supposed to cut, but haven’t), and other radical liberal groups. Cuts to these groups would likely be over a trillion dollars.
As a portion of GDP it's below average. Obama's driving it down where Clinton was driving it and you know what that got us: 9/11.
I agree that it is at a historical low as a percent of GDO.
Taiwan has much more to fear from China than us yet they spend less, as a percent of GDP, than we do.
No, it is time to ALSO take Israel off the public teat. No exceptions!!! They are rich enough to take care of themselves and ending welfare for them will enable them to pursue an independent course. If you think that the troops will ever come home if we fail to cut the Pentagon budget now, you are using the same logic as leftists who say that we have to raise the debt ceiling and deal with spending cuts as a “separate issue.”
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