{"id":21742,"date":"2011-01-06T16:09:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T20:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21742"},"modified":"2011-01-06T16:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T20:09:37","slug":"i-hate-to-say-i-told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21742","title":{"rendered":"I hate to say &#8220;I told you so&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21736\">this morning I said<\/a> &#8220;So which is easier to cut, weapons or personnel? Weapons create jobs. So that leaves\u2026well\u2026you.&#8221; As if to make me look brilliant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/gates-outlines-plans-to-cut-78-billion-in-programs-70-000-troops-1.130848\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense officials will slash $78 billion in program spending and begin cutting up to 70,000 soldiers and Marines as federal budget officials tighten the purse strings on military spending.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Robert Gates said none of the end strength cuts are immediate, but in the next five years, officials will begin trimming about 49,000 soldiers from the Army and up to 20,000 Marines from the Corps. He could not say how long the process may take, but it is expected to save about $6 billion and help close an anticipated $24 billion hole in defense spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like I said this morning, do you notice any other government agencies proposing personnel cuts, or cuts in their budgets at all? Do you mean to tell me that there&#8217;s not one useless person in every agency that they can do without? Yet there are 69,000 trigger pullers we won&#8217;t need five years from now?<\/p>\n<p>I remember when the Clinton Administration was buying service members out of their careers in 1993 and a year later they were asking them to come back&#8230;and they could keep their buy-outs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just this morning I said &#8220;So which is easier to cut, weapons or personnel? Weapons create &hellip; <a title=\"I hate to say &#8220;I told you so&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21742\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I hate to say &#8220;I told you so&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}