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US War Machine Downsizing?
mrspoonsi writes "BBC Reports: 'Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the U.S. Army to its smallest size since before World War Two. Outlining his budget plan, the Pentagon chief proposed trimming the active-duty Army to between 440,000 and 450,000 personnel — from 520,000 currently. The U.S. currently spends more on defense than the combined total of the next 12 countries, as ranked by defense spending.'"
But the style of the war making is changing. Drones, civilian targets, etc.
No, they are genuine cuts in the armed forces. There will be substantial cuts on the civilian side, and overall funding. Sequestration started it.
Future attacks on the US will be handled by diplomatic notes form Secretary of State Kerry expressing strong disapproval.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Our military is welfare. where do you think that 800 billion or whatever it is military budge goes? we're not buying volkswagons and pokemon with it. it's going to factory workers in idaho or wherever who are being paid to build tanks even though the army has all the tanks it will ever need and then some (and has even asked congress to stop sending them more). They go straight from the factory to sit in what is essentially a scrap yard. they're only being made because the congressman who pushed the bill through is getting money for his constituents.
take the money out of defense and put it right in welfare, it'll end up with the same people.
No... the money will just be spent on food stamps and welfare.
The real complex in the US is the welfare-entitlement complex. And it is devouring my country.... cracking the bones and sucking the marrow out.
They'll never have enough money. They're already spending far more then we take in tax revenue... and so they're cutting things.
Why do you think our infrastructure is crumbling? Because they took the money ear marked for infrastructure and spent it on welfare and entitlements... public unions and pensions.
And why? Power. They buy votes with our money. They they get money by giving ours away to companies as well. Want 1 million in campaign donations? Give a company 500 million in US tax dollars. Want 50,000 union votes in an election that might only have 500000 people voting? Increase their benefits... union bosses will pass the message along and they'll all vote as a block in your favor.
It is eating my country alive. Its cancer.
And for those that will disagree... you're just talking tumors. Its the cancer calling to say it isn't cancer... but it is... Its a science fiction horror story.
It has been eating the military for over a generation. It has long ago hollowed out our manufacturing industry. And now its just rooting around in our guts for another organ to masticate.
America with her guts ripped open with a swarm of zombies feeding on the innards.
Nothing more or less.
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