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- I have a son currently deployed. I am appalled that the Senators think cutting education funding to thousands of military dependent children is OK. Children of deployed service members receive their greatest emotional support at base schools. The soldiers serves and his or her family serves as well.
What I would prefer to see is that our representatives need to retire like the rest of us, need to partially fund their medical/dental like many of us and have their families pay for their education like the rest of us- no more fat privledge to elected officials.
Rather than cut military spending I would suggest we purchase just like large companies- KBR and Halliburton have lucrative contracts with inflated pricing. You can provide continued support by controlling costs. - Reply to this comment
- Why not film the blue angels and the thunderbirds and post it on youtube? I tink that will do for government sponsored entertainment. Flyovers at funerals? Hell, the government hasn't had the money to pay for firing squad and buglers for any of that except active duty deaths and at Arlington for decades. I don't see why we needed two aircraft carriers in the gulf when our closest competition is China with one carrier and they haven't launched a plane from it yet. Killing the F-35 would be a blessing, as would telling the tank plant at Lima, Ohio that we have enough tanks now. The M1/A1/A2 can be upgraded and rebuilt for decades, just like the M60 was.
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- When we look at the absolute spending amount, the United States is by far the largest spender. According to theStockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook 2011, America spent nearly $700 billion in 2010. This accounts for about 43% of the entire global military spending and is nearly 6 times more than the amount spent by the next largest, China. In fact, the United States spends more on its military than the total spent by the second largest (China), third largest (United Kingdom), fourth largest (France), fifth largest (Russia)... and fifteenth largest (Turkey) combined.
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- Why is it that every time I see one of these articles they never mention the average 28% pay cut 800,000 DoD civilians will be taking? It that somehow no big deal compared to the poor, poor blue angels?
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- Republicans conspired and vowed to make Barack Obama a one term president. They followed up that vow with unyielding, unrelenting, sabotaging obstruction to stop every proposal President Obama and Democrats put forth to help ordinary Americans and revive the economy. They use HOSTAGE POLITICS with manufactured crisis after crisis to extract political ransom from President Obama and Democrats. Republicans have shown time after time they don't give a damn about country, constitution or Americans.
Demented teabaggers are more than happy to destroy America carrying the water for their fellow bedsheet and pillow case wearing republicans. - Reply to this comment
- These are the military areas that need to be cut:
1. Allow Hagel to stop all non needed weapon upgrades such as the F-35 plane. Experts have said that the present planes are doing the job quite nicely.
2. Immediately examine all military bases overseas (about 1000) for closure/realignment/whatever.
3. The story says that we need to provide mainteance for two aircraft carriers. In view of the growing drone capability, do we still need all of the carriers we have? China only has one.
If we truly look at all of this, that would be more than enough to fill the $45 billion quota. - Reply to this comment
- Cut the budget by 50% Monday morning. Send the generals home. The world will be more safe from US extremism.
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- maybe the cuts will mean getting out of these stupid wars in Afghanistan and Iraq even faster. We continue to spend huge amounts of taxdollars in Iraq as the country moves closer to Iran and civil war. History will judge these wars just like Vietnam--a huge waste of lives and resources. Blame the lies on Bush and Rumsfeld.
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- When McCain ran in 2008, he was for a 10% cut across the board to reduce deficits. Now we have a 5% reduction on half the budget and he is all unhappy.
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- Seems all that extra flight training McCain got didn't help, he crashed 5 planes during his career.
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