So are nice congressional offices, most of the White house staff, and a lot of other things.
There is NO MONEY! You can't say “Well my pet project doesn't cost to much in the grand scheme of things!”. Everyone can say that will a 15 Trillion dollar debt.
Everything has to be cut. Everything has to be on the table. If we really want to reduce our debt, you have to cut deep, and not just into things that are nice to have, but not needed.
I’ve heard ‘no more money’ for a decades but things are still happening.
If there was really ‘no more money’ we’d have zero military whatsoever.
There is still a lot of money out there. It’s where it goes that is the problem.
1. There is money. Trillions of dollars. Yes, 40 cents of every dollar is borrowed. But the amount of money being spent is immense; almost incalculable.
2. Everything is not "on the table", and Entitlements never wereon the table during this disastrous Super Committee debt deal to begin with.
Do you understand that this is what has happened, and is happening?
Entitlements are protected, and growing at almost the rate of cancer cells.
Defense has been mortally wounded with cuts, and now on top of that it is being eviscerated.
A key purpose of periodic military demonstrations is to shake the bones of our domestic enemies. The message is: don't even think it. They despise the Blue Angles. We actually get a lot of bang for our buck out of military air shows.