{"id":21625,"date":"2010-12-24T09:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T13:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21625"},"modified":"2010-12-24T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T13:47:40","slug":"is-there-a-war-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21625","title":{"rendered":"Is there a war going on?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defense News<\/a> reports that the Office of Management and Budget and the White have ordered the Department of Defense to cut $78 billion dollars from it’s annual budget over the next 5 years, including $12 million from this year’s budget.<\/p>\n

Has anyone ever heard of a nation that cuts it’s defense spending while it’s fighting a war?<\/p>\n

It remains unclear how that $78 billion will break down over those five years.<\/p>\n

OMB and Pentagon officials late last week were using a defense top-line figure for 2011 that was included in a since-nixed Senate omnibus appropriations bill to plan a 2012 spending level.<\/p>\n

That massive spending measure would have provided the Pentagon with $667.7 billion for 2011, including war funding – some $10 billion below the Pentagon’s request.<\/p>\n

The now-nixed omnibus bill’s defense section called included $157.8 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, leaving $509.9 billion for most other U.S. military expenditures, but excluding things like nuclear weapons, military construction and other military initiatives funded by other budget bills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, I have a pretty good idea where those cuts will happen. They always target personnel costs, mostly retirees and health care. Congress always avoids cutting aircraft manufacturing or ship building because of the impact that would have on local unemployment. It’s always easier to cut off retirees and jack up our “free medical” costs.<\/p>\n

I hope the VSOs are paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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