I think we can ‘all’ agree, Republicans and Democrats alike, that Barry holds nothing but the deepest contempt for both the miliary, in general, and more specifically, those who choose to serve. So the recent news of how the military will once again be forced to bear the brunt of budget cuts should come as no surprise. So what now appears as an effort to out ‘Jimmy Carter’, Jimmy Carter. Barry now plans to reduce the size of the U.S. military to its smallest size since before World War II and to scrap an entire class of Air Force attack jets. I’m quite sure that somewhere in China, a room full of generals is smiling.
The planned reduction would, theoretically, leave our military capable of defeating any enemy but too small for long foreign occupations, and would involve greater risk if U.S. forces were asked to carry out two large-scale military actions at the same time. Specifically, officials acknowledged that winning such a war would take longer, and there would be a larger number of casualties. But let’s face it, Barry has demonstrated on more than one occasion that the number of casualties suffered by our brave men and women is something that views as being inconsequential. In other words, he simply doesn’t care.
Barry/Hagel’s plan also would:
1. Transfer the National Guard's Apache attack helicopters to the active-duty Army, which would transfer its Black Hawk helicopters to the National Guard.
2. Create an increase in health insurance deductibles and some co-pays for some military retirees and for some family members of active servicemen.
3. Call for slowing the growth of tax-free housing allowances for military personnel and would reduce the $1.4 billion direct subsidy provided to military commissaries.
4. Eliminate the entire fleet of Air Force A-10 attack aircraft.
5. Retire the famed U-2 spy plane in favor of the remotely piloted Global Hawk.
6. Overall, the Army, which currently has about 540,000 troops, will drop by about 20 percent to 440,000 troops over the next several years.
It was retired Gen. Jack Keane who told Fox News that the budget cuts being proposed by Hagel would "cut into the bone and the capabilities of the Army." He added, "The assumption that's being made in the Pentagon, and it's almost laughable if it wasn't so serious, is they don't believe the United States will involve itself in a ground war of any consequence again." Keane also said, "The fact of the matter is, those assumptions have been made after World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War, and every single time they have been proven wrong. Here we are making that same assumption again."
Last Friday, it was The Wall Street Journal that reported Hagel is also seeking a limit on both military pay raises and healthcare benefits. He’s also looking at much less generous housing allowances, and a one-year freeze on raises for top military brass. We’re told that personnel costs reflect some 50 percent of the Pentagon budget and cannot be exempted in the context of the significant cuts the department is facing. And while Hagel may say he doesn’t want to, the plan is to slow the growth of military pay and compensation. Now look, you can say this is all Hagel’s doing, but he’s just another one Barry’s stooges.
"This is a real uphill battle with Congress," said Mieke Eoyang, director of something called the National Security Program at Third Way, some supposed ‘centrist’ think tank located, where else but, in Washington. She said, "God bless [Hagel] for trying to get a handle on these costs." This moron went on to say, "But in this political environment, in an election year, it's going to be hard for members of Congress to accept anything that's viewed as taking benefits away from troops." We’ve got people using their welfare debit cards to go to strip clubs and to buy booze, yet we insist upon going after our troops.
But, you see, Barry views going after those serving in the military as being safe because most of those folks, when their ballots are even counted, rarely vote for Democrats. It’s those folks on welfare, food stamps, endless unemployment and disability who MUST be provided for because they DO vote for Democrats. Which is what this is really all about. Barry, like nearly every Democrat who has come before him, sees the military as being nothing more than a complete waste of money. Funny, the one thing that must be kept in top form, is always the first thing that Democrats seek to destroy. Pretty pathetic!
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