{"id":21209,"date":"2010-11-16T10:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21209"},"modified":"2010-11-16T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:45:48","slug":"why-the-ignorant-and-forgetful-should-just-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21209","title":{"rendered":"Why the ignorant and forgetful should just shut up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know why I keep reading his column, but I clicked on Eugene Robinson’s verbal diarrhea this morning at the Washington Post entitled “Trimming a bloated defense budget<\/a>” in which Robinson, unsurprisingly, takes the Administration’s position that the way to balance the budget is to freeze military pay and cut spending on weapons systems. Why?<\/p>\n

The United States accounts for 46.5 percent of the world’s total defense spending, according to a widely accepted recent estimate. The next-biggest spender is China, which has undertaken an immense buildup to become a military as well as economic superpower – yet accounts for just 6.6 percent of the world’s total.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, because China is the next largest military economy. The same China that paralyzed the young Bush Administration by knocking our plane out of the sky and capturing it’s crew. The same China that protects Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear programs in the Security Council. Basically, no one needs a military as large as ours because the countries arrayed against us get to use the whole rest of the world against us. Because of complete idiots like Robinson.<\/p>\n

The Democrats keep going back to the same solutions to “reduce the size government”. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton both dismantled the military and slashed spending. Their successors, in turn, had to rebuild that which had been destroyed and left us vulnerable. <\/p>\n

Bowles and Simpson properly classify defense spending as discretionary, meaning we are able to make choices. This should be axiomatic. But it has been Republican Party orthodoxy to inveigh against “big government” and its out-of-control spending while blithely ignoring the nearly $700 billion we’re lavishing annually on the Pentagon, as if every penny were somehow preordained and inviolate. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robinson neglects to mention the waste of Defense money on unnecessary contracts for planes and tanks the military didn’t want during the last two Congressional sessions to prop up certain members’ district employment numbers. Nor does he mention Nancy Pelosi’s personal military transport to and from her district every week.<\/p>\n

Robinson claims that withdrawing from Afghanistan will save lives and money – not in the long term. It just kicks the can down the road. I just wish that morons like Robinson would recognize the fact that their anti-intellectual blather only extends the war against terrorists. And causes more defense spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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