Two things...
“The nice thing about the defense budget is it’s so big, it’s so
huge, that a 1 percent reduction is the equivalent of the education
budget,” Obama said, immediately noting he was “exaggerating” the exact
numbers.
And this...
Today, the Marines are stuck with aging airframes that have limited
capabilities and are expensive to operate—a double problem. In contrast,
the “B is a winner on both counts.
The impact on the fleet is significant. The Marines go from three to
one aircraft; and it gets a new aircraft with significant reductions in
cost of maintenance.”
The fate of the F–35 is a case study in the President’s penny-wise, pound-foolish approach to defense spending.
Read the entire article but when need better leadership than we're currently getting...both in Congress and in the Administration. I wonder how they think the unemployment numbers are going to look after all the reductions in force....I wonder if this entire budget battle isn't really about saving health care and not reducing the deficit....I wonder if anyone in D.C. actually cares. I wonder.
