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Posted on 08/03/2011 10:00:55 AM PDT by Nachum
Cuts to Pentagon spending won’t be done in a “hasty, ill-conceived way,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a letter to reassure to his department’s staff Wednesday.
Acknowledging that defense cuts “must be” part of the solution to trim the national debt, Panetta said military leaders will be able to make $350 billion in cuts over the next decade that were laid out in the compromise bill to raise the debt ceiling “while maintaining the excellence of our military.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
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To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin:
People who give away a little security in order to obtain a little temporary political safety deserve neither security nor political safety.
While we’re going that, can we EVER begin to even consider reforming Medicare and the welfare systems?
Why is there NEVER any talk of this????
If all we did was ensure that benefits only went to native born Americans, or long-term American citizens, I bet we’d save over 50% on both programs!!!!
in reality, ALL of the govt class has to be cut, no matter what stripe....
An elitist and a Communist and the media reports every word he says.
Don’t worry - the coming war with Chna will change all that.
I have ocean front property in AZ to sell to any fool willing to buy this garbage.
“A nation can survive its fools... But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly...But the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politics so that it can no longer resist.” ~ Cicero
Until congress, and the entire fed work force, and president are forced under Medicare it won’t happen.
The Military is about the only fed employees who pay into Medicare. And when they retire, and reach 65 they are forced onto Medicare/Tricare for Life. Both administered out of Medicare.
There is 45+ years of quid pro quo donor palm greasing built into each entitlement program, along with the $1605 B in PORK spending.
You do realize that until they have over 10 years in they are the lowest paid on the federal payroll, unless they started as officers? A DC staffer’s 2 year in secretary makes more money and bennies, and sits their butts in AC/heated offices and are NOT being asked to risk LIFE OR LIMB for their country at a moments notice.
And if some desk jockey doesn’t send in your promotion papers, well you have to keep your current rank for another year.
Out of this measly pay comes Medicare, SS, plus income taxes. And if you have wife/kids you get to pay CHAMPUS ins for their health care.
There are a lot of vested retirement 30-40 year people that should retire and let the lower ranks move up. But 0 is going after 3,000 CPO’s for the Navy, they are 14-16 years in maybe, several years short of vested retirement.
Don’t know about the other branches, but suspect it is happening to them too.
THIS IS A LIST OF CUTS that the VFW has put out that are being purposed.
http://www.vfw.org/News-and-Events/Articles/STOP-CONGRESS-FROM-PASSING-AMERICA-S-DEBT-ONTO-VETERANS/
1 of them is to freeze Active duty pay.
Eliminating base children schools state side is no loss. But is if you are on an overseas base.
Republican Budget Cuts 1.3 Million Veterans from VA Medical Care
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.php/whats-new/2279-tom-philpott
Obama gutting the Military
http://townhall.com/columnists/luritadoan/2011/07/25/obamas_intent_to_gut_the_military
Sweet. Thank you.
Bears repeating! Howdy, GailA ........................ FRegards
hocked it from some one who posted it on my FB page. LOL truth is truth whether it is said today or during Roman times.
And I sick and tired of both parties trying to make a serf out of me when they live like kings and queens.
TERM LIMITS, reduce senate to 4 year terms, place them ALL under the rationed MEDICARE.
read my tag line.
This should read STOP AMERICA FROM GOING UNDER.
Stop Australia Going Under
Reprinted from political ad in the Western Australian Sunday Times, December 3, 1995
In 1944, Democratic U.S. Congressman Samuel Pettengill warned America that socialists would endeavor to have the U.S. spend itself into bankruptcy, with a view to making citizens totally dependent on a centralized government.
Pettengill detailed TEN POINTS of the socialist manifesto that would destroy free government. Almost 50 years later, down under in Australia, it is disturbing to reflect on Pettengill’s 10 points.
1) People must be made to feel their utter helplessness and their inability to solve their own problems. While in this state of mind, there is held up before them a benign and all-wise leader to whom they MUST look to the cure for all their ills.
2) The principle of local self-government must be WIPED OUT, so that this leader or group in control can have all the political power readily at hand.
3) Constitutional guarantees must be swept aside. This accomplished in part by RIDICULING them as outmoded and an obstruction to progress.
4) Public faith in the legal profession and respect for the courts must be undermined. The law making body must be intimidated and from time to time rebuked, so as to prevent the development of public confidence in it.
5) Economically, the people must be ground down by high taxes, which under one pretext or another they are called upon to pay. Thus they are brought to a common level and all income above a meager living is taken from them. In this manner, economic independence is kept to a minimum.
6) A great public debt must be built so the citizens can never escape its burden, making government the virtual receiver for the entire nation.
7) A general distrust of private business and industry must be kept alive so the public may not begin to rely on its own resources.
8) Government bureaus are set up to control practically every phase of the citizen’s lives.
9) The education of the youth of the nation is taken under CONTROL so that all may be indoctrinated at an early age with a spirit of submission to the system.
10) To supplement and fortify all the foregoing, there is kept up a steady stream of GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA designed to extol all who bow the knee and to vilify those who dare raise a voice of dissent.
Samuel Barret Pettengill U. S. Congressman 1886-1974 Reprinted from an article in Ken Hamblin ‘Talks with America’ News letter Feb. 19. 1996
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PETTENGILL, Samuel Barrett, (nephew of William Horace Clagett), a Representative from Indiana; born in Portland, Oreg., January 19, 1886; in 1892 moved to Vermont with his father, who settled on a farm in Grafton, Windham County; attended the common schools; was graduated from Vermont Academy at Saxtons River in 1904, from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., in 1908, and from the law department of Yale University in 1911; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in South Bend, Ind.; member of the board of education of South Bend, 1926-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate for renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; newspaper columist 1939-1948; vice president and general counsel of the Transportation Association of America, 1943-1945; national radio commentator, 1946-1948; attorney for the Pure Oil Co., Chicago, Ill., 1949-1956; consultant, the Coe Foundation, 1956-1965; resided at his boyhood farm near Grafton, Vt.; died in Springfield, Vt., March 20, 1974; interment in Grafton Village Cemetery, Grafton, Vt.
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