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01-05-12, 04:07 PM #1Trimming the fat
It will be interesting to see the changes if and when they are accepted by Congress.
BBC News - Obama unveils new strategy for 'leaner' US militaryenf-Jesus its been like 12 minutes and you're already worried about stats?! :-P
Bigdog-Sweet home Alabama you are an idiot.
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01-05-12, 04:26 PM #2
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A big IF. Count me as a skeptic on this proposal being anything more than a gesture to help secure the seat for another 4 years.
The military is bloated as hell and responsible for a vast majority of our tax dollar waste. But I don't see the cuts actually going through. Definitely not at the magnitude of 10-15%. Government has a lot of trouble functioning on that level of cutbacks.
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01-05-12, 05:11 PM #5Re: Trimming the fat
Obama administration announces new arm sales to Gulf allies - Washington DC Foreign Policy | Examiner.com
11b to Iraq, and 53 to Bahrain, 29.4 to Saudi.................Or is this discussion solely based on Troops, (soldiers)
I wasn't really, maybe I don't Grasp the full extent of this article and close to 100billion in arms sales is a mere drop in the pool, or ocean. Enlighten please.Last edited by SmokenScion; 01-05-12 at 05:15 PM.
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01-05-12, 05:46 PM #6
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I don't grasp it completely either. But a couple things come to mind.
First, extra arms sales this year help someone this year. The defence budget is a yearly thing. Iraq might not want to spend an extra 53 Billion every year. Last I saw, their TO DO list was pretty long. They probably think they have something better to do with that money. As do we.
Second, I don't think an arms deal is necessarily helping the DoD's bottom line. I'm sure the money washes around and around in the military-industrial complex, but it seems to me that the sale of 18 F16s to Iraq (part of the $11 B deal) is mostly a good thing for Lockheed Martin; not the Pentagon.
Third, what's wrong with both? I guess it's good for Raytheon to pad their quarterly figures with an over-seas deal, but can't we ALSO cut the budget?
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