Posted on 02/27/2006 11:22:32 AM PST by High Cotton
Bush's budget plan would support a state-controlled National Guard of about 333-thousand citizen soldiers - the current total - rather than the 350-thousand authorized by Congress. All 50 governors signed onto a letter to Bush earlier this month that opposed any cuts to the Guard.
(Excerpt) Read more at wtkr.com ...
Everyone wants the budget trimmed back but as soon as it affects THEM it’s a different story. Bush is trying to keep the spending down by "maintaining the current" National Guard force. Adding 17,000 PER STATE (X50) is expanding the National Guard by 850,000 nationwide, thus INCREASING the payroll and national debt.
It's not a cut. Bush just wants to MAINTAIN THE CURRENT LEVEL of 333,000.
to protect our nations borders. That's what they are supposed to be for folks!
President Bush just needs to call us forth and state an objective, and the best part is, It's volunteer duty during free time....
I HAVE read the article, though I believe we have a different interpretations. I understand that military issues can be emotional issues for some people, so let’s take the emotional out.
Suppose you were currently paying $333 a year in taxes. Congress authorizes a tax increase to $350. Bush vetoes it. So you continue to pay $333 in taxes. Did you get a tax cut? No…you continue to pay the same amount as last year, you just didn’t get a tax increase.
It’s the same with the National Guard. Bush wants to maintain the current status. As far as radios, trucks, and other support systems, I do not believe that was addressed in the article.
From the same people who whined endlessly about how the "Guard units were being over stretched" by repeated deployments. The IDEA here is to SWITCH more of the force to full time ACTIVE Duty and keep the Guard as the emergency reserve force. Just more stupid grandstanding by the usual collection of media whore politicians. They cannot NOT have it both ways. We have NO reason to continuing paying for a force these idiots NEVER want us to use. We cannot afford both options
Yeah but both Kaine and Warner are complete sound bite pols. NO there there.
Every state has the authority to create the "well regulated militia" that is "necessary to the security of a free state" that is mentioned in the 2nd Amendment. We can now plainly see that that is NOT the National Guard, and that the citizen militia in almost every state has fallen into disuse. If a state would create one, it can only be called into federal service by an act of Congress, not the C-in-C
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