Posted on 09/08/2011 12:50:31 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
They’ve only met once, but Sen. Jon Kyl is already threatening to quit the deficit busting supercommittee if the panel pushes more defense cuts.
“I’m off the committee” if there are deeper cuts to the military, Kyl warned at a forum sponsored by several conservative think tanks, including AEI, the Foreign Policy Institute, and the Heritage Foundation.
...Kyl and others are also deeply worried about the so-called “trigger” in the debt-limit law passed last month. If the supercommittee fails to reach between $1.2 trillion and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, there will be automatic cuts in defense spending and Medicare.
The trigger was built into the debt limit deal in order to force serious action from the supercommittee, but Kyl and others are already promising to rewrite the law to water down the trigger if the deficit panel fails to reach a deal by Thanksgiving.
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Seems to me he needs to stay on the committee to prevent automatic defense cuts from happening, if an agreement fails to occur. Cannot believe the Pubs agreed to this automatic cut?
but but but .... its BI-partisan, so it must be good, right?
I’m hearing through military people they are being told to cut 30%.”
I have a problem with that.
I want to have EVERY Dept being told to cut 30%.
Why go after DoD and leave the rest of the govt alone?
“The first item on the cutting block must be foreign aid. “
Sure but that’s 0.1% of spending, what about the other 99.9% of it?
“We need to develop a top to bottom culture in the government and military of running a tight ship - of waste not want not.”
We need to close and/or merge at least 40% of the agencies. Too many of them have overlapping charters.
Alot of the waste in the layers of bureaucracy that we dont need now.
“The more you see it the less you give a damn about the waste. The only way to correct it is to do more with less and you start by making major cuts. It forces managers and officers and NCOs to figure out ways to do more with less just as it does in business.”
Absolutely. 30% across the board cuts, then fill back only in the areas of super-critical need.
FR is slowly but surely being overrun by crackpots. Add to that the number of useless vanity posts, and you have a site in decline.
It’s a free country.
(My Grandpa told me that the Constitution guaranteed everybody the right to make an a$$ of themselves in public, which I guess is another way to say that.....)
I’d have responded to the guy, but I had to get back to work after I finished my lunch. Guess somebody’s got to do that sort of thing so he can keep clutching that Great Big Candy Jar real tight.......
Just hope that he isn’t TOO typical, or we’re in deep sh** fo’ sure.
While his position seems worthy, why isn’t he just calling for the abolishment of the so called super committee? It is obviously unconstitutional and has no place in our legislature. Why didn’t he scream loud and long when it was proposed on the idiotic bill they allowed to be passed?
Well said. It is no longer a department of defense. It is better described as a super-bloated and overextended department of world policing.
Surprise, surprise - - the entire debt ceiling "debate" was a charade from the beginning. The rats win.
And a sodomized, politically correct one at that.
“It is no longer a department of defense. It is better described as a super-bloated and overextended department of world policing.”
BUMP
Foreign aid is still $50 billion a year. That’s a lot of money and it needs reserved for Americans in the USA not given to others and often corrupt leaders.
Symbolism of frugality towards outside interests is something most consider as more important than cutting needed programs that benefit Americans.
Who put the stupid in the stupid party? The Rinos did, the Rino did!
They should have listened to the hobbits!
Why don’t you take your loser liberaltarian ass somewhere else.
Such a nice, polite guy who always takes the high road and never gets in the gutter. Your mother must be proud of you.
You know, there is this little document called the United States Constitution. I don't read it as often as I should, but I'm pretty sure the ONLY expenditure of the People's monies authorized in the Constitution is for the defense of the nation.
It looks to me like the debt ceiling deal, trigger and all, just MIGHT be un-Constitutional.
Have to agree with ya there.
Now all you need to do is find a court that still considers the Constitution as something superior to itself.
Forget the 4th and 9th Districts......
No, the debt ceiling is not unconstitutional.
“I’m pretty sure the ONLY expenditure of the People’s monies authorized in the Constitution is for the defense of the nation.”
You’d be wrong about that too.
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