Posted on 01/08/2023 1:35:50 PM PST by RandFan
Rep. Jim Jordan, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and the incoming chair of the Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that everything must be on table to cut in order to rein in federal spending — including the Pentagon’s budget and “all the ‘woke’ in our military.”
“We’ve got a $32 trillion debt, everything has to be on the table. We’re on pace to spend $500, $600 billion in debt payments just to deal with interest payments,” Mr. Jordan, Ohio Republican, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Frankly, maybe if we would focus our military spending on the soldiers and not having so many generals — the ratio of general officers to enlisted individuals now is so out of whack.”
House Republicans have their sights set on reining in what they call out-of-control spending. That means investigating past government relief under the pandemic and potentially cutting entitlements, assistance programs and foreign aid while increasing oversight of agencies like the FBI and the IRS as well the Biden administration’s southern border policies.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, made a concession to win over conservative holdouts in his bid for the speakership that the chamber would cap spending at fiscal 2022 levels in the next budget due Oct. 1, teeing up debate over what funding should be slashed.
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Fiscal year defense budget was about $750 billion.
The new gender is Ed mulitary has needs. Or… no sane parent is allowing their kids to join. My son was in for a couple of years.. it’s filled with diverse rainbows instead of fighting men.
Everything?
Then let’s cut all spending on the Deeaitchess
Good. Cut it. The military budget is ridiculously high.
Cut all the funding for trans and woke crap. And covid shots.
Money to foreign countries is an easy cut. Americans won’t mind it at all.
Well, eventually entitlement spending will become the only item. Defense spending is only 4% of the GDP now and shrinking fast.
Having everything “on the table” is not the same thing as “reduced, then cleared off the table”...
This is good to hear. There should be no “sacred cows” anywhere in this ridiculously bloated budget, especially this department. Apparently they failed an audit recently, and are now shipping off billions by the week direct to questionable overseas governments.
If the cuts are done judiciously, than we could probably trim 10% of the current Pentagon budget without harming anything. We currently have as many 4-star generals in the Army as during WWII (more if you include the Air Force 4-stars). When I last checked, we had over 800K civilians working for the military. We buy too much in the way of equipment and supplies that do not directly impact combat readiness.
I would be in favor of sending all the fags and trannies to Ukraine. Word will get out and they’ll quit infesting the military.
They sell that crap to police departments.
the neoCON military industrial complex worshippers will not be happy about this.
1) Sell off unused property and save the cost of maintaining it... plus the onetime gain.
2) Cease all departments, programs and projects involved in making the military touch-feelie, woke, or just soft.
3) Weed out all officerws and enlisted whose MOS is touchie- feelie, woke, soft.
Turn the military into a lean, mean fighting machine with the emphasis on lean.
4) CIA, NSC, FBI, alphabet and secret agencies: Remove all positions and personnel involved in the same as above. Remove positions and personnel of the politcally correct.
There also should be significant pork cutting for those legally here. No middle or even upper class lifestyles on the dole. If those legally here can't get fed paid hammocks without excellent reasons they'll return to the workforce. And the fattest 'poor' folks in world history will get thinner until they can successfully stay in the work force. Can't fix it all at once but the ratcheting down should start. Like computer analysis of the alleged voting rolls, computer analysis of total transfer payments would provide good starting places. And politically point out that same analysis potentially may identify a few circumstances where benefits deserve to increase, as incredible as that may seem to those on our side. We're showered with reports on how many are poor—pre-government aid—government doesn't bother to check how many still are poor after its aid. Identify those deserving and not getting enough, if any, and propose fixes for that. Identify those getting more than they deserve and repurpose those funds for those really needy, especially those who have been overpaying the bills.
However, our national debt service has now exceeded GDP.
The defense needs to be cut dollar for dollar for every dime spent on Ukraine.
We spent too much on weapons of war because it costs money to make them “sexy”
And graft. Can’t forget graft.
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