Big cuts coming to US military

[vanjast]

History is cyclical, and the wheel in the sky keeps on turning.

'Proud Mary keep on burning'..

Hitler rightly said.. "Armies are meant for war".
If there is no war.. you don't need an army, or at least a beeeeg one.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by vanjast

'Proud Mary keep on burning'..

Different group, different song.

[Catfish]

But was Proud M. a stern, or a side wheeler ?

I always tried to find that out ..

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

There will be no belly aching, until they start closing bases here at home.

There will be great wailing and gnashing of teeth in congress then.

Yup.

In any event, I have a hunch that downsizing our military will have little to no effect on our national debt at this point.

EDIT:
I should probably say that I do feel many budget cuts are necessary, like big fancy stealth jets for example and similarly grotesquely bloated projects; even some personnel cuts, however cutting personnel too much, I think unwise.

EDIT 2:
If they really want to reduce the cost of the military, the politiicans in washington need to reduce our global foot print first. They should close bases overseas first before closing them at home. Seems to me, we did this song and dance under the Clinton administration.

[Platapus]

So now that there will be cuts, we will see how these "smaller government" members of congress will fight this.

Smaller government spending is not so good when it is in your state.

The MIC is a hungry mistress.

[Aktungbby]