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To: Olog-hai
Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham charged in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV Thursday that billions of dollars in automatic spending cuts scheduled to begin hitting the Defense Department next year under the so-called sequestration mechanism will lead to an “inability to defend the nation” from its enemies.

But running 1.5 trillion dollar deficits each year ad infinitim is just fine. Got it.

If this spending keeps up we will be lucky to have one carrier battle group in ten or fifteen years.
5 posted on 08/03/2012 6:31:49 PM PDT by microgood
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To: microgood

To make this all simple....if we had sat down five years ago and made some simple observations...sequestration would be unnecessary.

The Cold War is over....we won (we even gave out medals)....so pack up US forces in England, Italy, Germany and Turkey, and bring them back to the shores of America intact and layer them across installations in America that already exist.

World War II is over....we won....so pack up US forces in Japan, and bring them intact...back to the west coast and Alaska, to installations that already exist.

The Korean War? Never over, but face it...North Korea has all the mighty military power of Honduras. If they want to march across the DMZ, fine....we can finally go out and take them down. But right now...the 37k troops we have in South Korea aren’t necessary. Bring them to Alaska and Washington state, and integrate them into a forward leaning military force.

Exercises in strange and exotic places? We don’t need to do it...we have lots of space in Texas, Colorado and California where we can “game” and keep our cash...right here in America.

We can save lots of tax revenue....if we simply got rid of McCain and Graham, and start thinking outside of the box.


29 posted on 08/03/2012 9:47:36 PM PDT by pepsionice
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