Unfortunately, in Washington, it is.
The Air Force is being squeezed at a time the nation can least afford to fall behind in its generational dominance in air, space and cyber power.
I have never seen such a disconnect between reality and Washington DC in my lifetime. Here is the White House, about to launch a war on Syria that may trigger an attack on Israel, and an all out war in the Middle East that will verge on WW III, and our military is being decimated by budget cuts that started in 2009 ($330 Billion over ten years), continued in 2011 ($487 Billion over ten years), and now Sequestration ($650 Billion over ten years).
Last year's Sequestration cut alone was $37 Billion to the DoD, which must "pay for" 50% of all Sequestration cuts despite being 17% of the Federal budget. This year's Sequestration cut will be $52 Billion, and military readiness is already on its knees.
The public does not care - they are getting their EBT Food Stamps, Social Security checks, and Medicaid.
The Republicans and the Tea Party do not care - they want to continue to use the military as an ATM for the welfare state.
And the Democrats certainly do not care.
The
BULLSH!T
A government shutdown will fix that.
Imagine bombing Syria with a lapse in the defense budget funding (oct 1) at the same time,
This is a good thing! It leaves more money for Obama to fly Air Force to more far-away golf outings. I mean what’s an air force for if can’t be used by Obama as his personal airline?
So they’re killing the B-1. We have 20 remaining B-2s, each costing as much as an Aircraft Carrier, so they won’t be risked. . . leaving the now 50+ year old B-52 as our frontline strategic bomber. Which is now supposed to last into the 2040s.
Now, the old joke we had in SAC when **I** flew B-52s in the ‘80s, that they’ll eventually replace the engines with warp nacelles, and have them serving well into the 24th century actually might happen. . .
bye bye fly guys?
This illustrates the problem with “free trade”.
“Free trade” isn’t free trade. It is the massive one-way importation of cheap imports from places like China, for which we have no balance.
I repeat that. For which we have no balance.
Free trade will destroy America.
Bring back BALANCED trade now.