then the boy's job will be half done... after that he's finish destroying the economy and our moral value system and it will be doneExactly what 0 wants.
Start closing bases in Japan, South Korea, and Germany. Let’s get our priorities straight. Pull out the latest batallion from Africa. End funding of Libya and Egypt. Etc, etc...
BS. They’re being asked to cut back to 2008 budget levels. I don’t think that’s going to destroy the military.
Obama’s priorities.
The great leader of fiscal negligence is meeting his objectives as he destroys America. Step by step, piece by piece.
America has never sunk so low, nor allowed itself to be dominated by a marxo muslim..... and largely unwittingly.
Bull. Crap.
Its apparent we need a two party system in this country....
Two Chilling Developments Suggest Asia May Be One Step Away From War
[sounds like we’re being set up all over the place]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2986629/posts
That would be a good time for China to attack Japan over the Senkaku Island dispute. The US wouldn’t be able to commit to its defense treaty with Japan.
We already knew this. Look at the the non response in Libya and this weeks testimony.
I guess we’ll have to rely on UN troops then.
(Funny how that worked out, ain’t it? Almost as though it were planned that way.)
Fire some Generals and Admirals, and civilian DoD personnel, replace them with people who can do a better job managing the resources.
That will get the attention of the whiners.
Apparently they couldn’t respond last September either.
then the boy's job will be half done... after that he's finish destroying the economy and our moral value system and it will be doneDOD and the services have something like 800,000 civilian employees total. That’s an amazing figure. Some do critical tasks but surely many do not. That’s where I would start cutting. Also, if I understand this correctly, sequestration brings the Pentagon back to its 2006 budget adjusted upward for inflation - it seems to me that this should be enough money to adequately defend us.
Whenever cuts are threatened, the first thing bureaucrats do is announce that the most important spending will be cut first, in order to stir up opposition to any cuts. So we read articles about not being able to refuel aircraft carriers. This is just another version of what the public education racket does: any threatened cuts will lead to fewer teachers, overcrowded classrooms, hungry students, and a whole parade of other horribles.
Give them more funding for public/government education, environmentalism, regulating against property rights, busting families, etc., or they’ll shut down our defense. It’s an extortion racket. Funny thing is, our major cities are mostly populated by liberal/left, anti-defense folks. They would suffer the most, if foreign enemies were to attack our country.
The truth is bureaucratic rule #1:
“When cutbacks come, offer to cut the meat, not the fat.”
In the DoD, this amounts to, “A $10 cut! That means we will have to shut down BOTH the Marine Corps and the Ballistic Missile Program!”
Here is current spending, as of 2009-2010, which includes Iraq and Afghanistan:
Operations and maintenance - $283.3 billion
Military Personnel - $154.2b
Procurement - $140.1b
Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation - $79.1b
Military Construction - $23.9b
Family Housing - $3.1b
Total Spending - $683.7b
So let’s start cutting spending in Operations.
Right now, US personnel are stationed in about 100 countries around the world, though we need for current ops and potential ops, personnel in perhaps 25 countries. After the one time expense of bringing those in the other 75 countries home, you save maybe $50b right there.
Most of the rest could be saved just by improving the procurement process. For example, when a ship is commissioned to be built, its initial price is doubled or tripled by changes ordered to it *during construction*.
Instead, when a ship is designed, have a “date certain” when the design is finished. From that point, only changes personally approved by the Secretary of the Navy may be made, and for critical functions only. Equipment and electronics that are frequently upgraded must be modular.
This kills off the vast majority of cost and construction overruns. Saving billions of dollars.
“By year’s end, troops will be unable to respond to crises, Pentagon says”
Crises like Benghazi, right?