It's Getting More Difficult To Maintain The Facade As The United States Crumbles Around Us

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: I'd like to see them cut about $700 billion from the one trillion dollar military budget. Oh, and by the way, end the occupations. You can save at least another $200 billion dollars a year.




DoD officials preparing smaller 2012 budget
By John T. Bennett - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Dec 20, 2010 16:24:56 EST

Since lawmakers and administration officials earlier this year began mulling ways to right Washington’s fiscal ship, it has become increasingly clear that the defense budget will shrink. Senate appropriators this year trimmed the administration’s 2011 defense request by $8 billion, with their House counterparts proposing a $7.2 billion reduction. Several high-profile debt-reduction panels called for Pentagon cuts as large as $100 billion.

[Skink]

1. I hate having to click on links after clicking on a post.

[Occulus]

3. It's not the OP's fault.

The OP has been 'asked' (read: coerced, threatened, issued a copyright takedown notice) to limit their quotes of articles from the sources mentioned in the OP.

I personally have a hard time understanding how any branch of the US military can copyright anything at all. Branches of government should not ever have rights under copyright law- we already paid for it.

[dgibby]

7. None of those sources are owned by the military or govt. n/t

[Sheri]

2. yeah, i'd like to see defense cuts too.

not to mention i'd like to see us get out of two unnecessary wars.

but it ain't gonna happen.

[old mark]

4. Maybe we should sell some aircraft carriers to China, save them from building their own...

We have over 30, IIRC ...they are launching their first in the next few years.

Who are we defending everyone against that we need 30 aircraft carriers and all those submarines? Sorry to be picking on the Navy, but that shit cost tons of money just to be sailing around. The Army can just buy better boots.

mark

[leveymg]

6. Start with the USS Bush and USS Reagan - they sold the country out to China.

Or, put that process into motion.

[Catherina]

5. Rec'd n/t

[johnaries]

8. Your OP title makes no sense, especially re: your posting.

We have made great strides in the last 2 years, and amazingly during this Lame Duck Congressional session. Therefore, there is no justification for saying that the US is crumbling. The fact that the Defense budget is being cut is further proof, and is good news even if it's not being cut as much as some of us would like.

:shrug: