intresting poll of what the military thinks

[BanginJimmy]

nothing wrong w/ cutting defense... its pretty retarded when we are spending billions like running water. that money should of been pumped into our economy in education, infrastructure, energy, etc. 25% of military budget is like 150 billion dollars (approx)... that money could easily be allocated to put the 40% of unemployed construction workers back to work here in the US repairing bridges/roads and building schools/hospitals/secure border, etc.

The military and intelligence was there Clinton got most of his cuts form too and it only made us more vunerable to attack.

Listen to where Obama wants to cut military though. Cuts in the upkeep of the nuke arsenal, cuts in modernizing, cuts in R&D. All of these things are what keeps us from being attacked. Having the best nuke arsenal keeps enemies from using nukes against us (MAD doctrine). Having the best weapons keeps enemies from attacking us conventionally. If anything we need to put moe money into modernizing and R&D for this new type of warfare we are seeing now.


Just payments made to personnel and veteran/retirees totals more than $125B of the $500B budget. That number does not include medical care and individual basic equipment for active and reserve components.

[4dmin]

The military and intelligence was there Clinton got most of his cuts form too and it only made us more vunerable to attack.

Listen to where Obama wants to cut military though. Cuts in the upkeep of the nuke arsenal, cuts in modernizing, cuts in R&D. All of these things are what keeps us from being attacked. Having the best nuke arsenal keeps enemies from using nukes against us (MAD doctrine). Having the best weapons keeps enemies from attacking us conventionally. If anything we need to put moe money into modernizing and R&D for this new type of warfare we are seeing now.


Just payments made to personnel and veteran/retirees totals more than $125B of the $500B budget. That number does not include medical care and individual basic equipment for active and reserve components.

all of the military spending didn't prevent 9/11

you can't spend money on weapons against terrorism... technology yes weapons no.