What's So Bad About Defense Spending Cuts
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Anonymous
Yes yes I get that more spending is good, and less is bad and unpatriotic. 
But looking at the numbers, it seems to me that this is not much at all. The budget is currently at $703 billion (really $832 billion if you include the Department of Veterans Affairs). Of that, about $553 billion is considered the base budget (not including the wars, which Republicans and Democrats eliminate from budget planning, nuclear programs, and defense related activities in other departments). So if we cut $500 billion over ten years, we are talking about $50 billion a year, or 9% 9%!! Seriously, THIS is the crippling budget cut that is so dangerous to our security? Gosh, we haven't seen numbers that low since... wow 2008. Gosh, remember when everyone was up in arms about how Bush wasn't spending enough to protect us back then? Oh wait.... |
Anonymous
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Well, a significant number of active duty people I know who work at the base level are working 60-70 hour weeks. This is not counting deployments. Hmmm, do they have another 9-10% to give?
I am sure there are sensible places to cut in our military budget (I can think of several), but when have the politicians in charge (Democrat or Republican) ever been sensible? |
Anonymous
Hmm, what do you think would happen in the private sector? I think the obvious answer here is that we need our military to scale back what it is doing and what it is buying, not to do the same thing and tell everyone to work longer. Our military budget is about the same as the rest of the world combined. So the question is how much is enough? I for one think that scaling back to 2008 is sufficient. |
Anonymous
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No one wants the military to stop paying the troops.
Stop buying multi-billion-dollar air craft carriers (or whatever you know what I mean) that the Pentagon has already said it won't use. |