People here on FR think this is a good thing.
I have found that out.
Many, many Freepers are in "Shoot! Fire! Aim!" mode on this. It is both disappointing and amazing at the same time.
We all want the deficit reduced. But breaking faith with our military this way is obscene. They also do not understand that the military is already dealing with almost half a Trillion dollars in cuts over ten years (cuts that began 2 years ago), on top of Sequestration.
The military is hemorrhaging.
I can tell you that America is going to get an education this week. The Joint Chiefs are going to Congress to testify.
I am told that at least one of them is close to putting his stars on the table. The level of frustration and desperation is reaching fever pitch, and Congress and the American people simply do not (yet) care.
OK. How much more in taxes are you willing to pay to keep this from happening? We either gut the military, gut Medicare, or gut Social Security, increase the deficit, or raise taxes. Those are the options. pick one.
Yep - they paint all government employees with the same broad brush and don't have the brain power to make any distinctions. they espouse conservatism and then suggest liberal "solutions". I can feel for some of them because I have no doubt they are having to deal with unemployment/underemployment and other job issues, but hardship isn't an excuse for dumb.
“People here on FR think this is a good thing.”
Some people wonder why, with a guaranteed $500B budget, the present Defense Department leadership cannot seem to accomplish things that contribute to our defense, such as training soldiers, and deploying aircraft carriers.
DoD budgets are facing a cut of less than 10% per year.
What our DoD leaders are doing is simply lying in hopes of preserving their bureaucracies. They are lying about where our Defense Budget priorities should be, they are cutting high-visibility things so they can pretend that the cuts are worse than they are, and they are exaggerating the real impact of a mere....yes “mere” 10% budget cut.
Since they are bureaucrats first, Americans second, they should be replaced by people who can take $500B and accomplish a reasoned, capable defense of our country and it’s interests.
I suggest there are many aspiring leaders who could accomplish this. The only people we know FOR SURE that cannot accomplish this is the present leadership - so they must go, immediately.
Also, we need Americans who care about the issue of our Defense to also stop repeating the bureaucratic lies.
Rather than focusing on what gets cut, let’s focus on what gets done with $500B in defense spending.
Why do you think the present bureaucrats won’t do this? I’ll tell you - because they’d be exposed for the liars they are.
Gay outreach over combat training, green fuels over much cheaper conventional fuels, police over soldiers....priorities such as that would come glaringly to the surface.
They are lying, and you are repeating the lies.
Stop it.