{"id":7615,"date":"2009-02-05T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2009-02-05T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:42:35","slug":"i-must-be-psychic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7615","title":{"rendered":"I must be psychic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends me a piece from Josh Rogin at the <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.cq.com\/wmspage.cfm?parm1=12#\">Congressional Quarterly<\/a> about the future of defense spending. Rogin writes that;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The current path of defense spending is unsustainable, due primarily to the rising cost of military entitlements and runaway acquisition costs, two defense budget experts told the House Budget Committee on Wednesday.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n\u201cThe first factor driving up the price of defense is, simply, the growing cost of uniformed military personnel,\u201d [Stephen Daggett, defense budget specialist for the Congressional Research Service] said in his written testimony.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n\u201cThis may suggest that if defense budget shortfalls continue, we will, later if not now, have to consider reductions in the number of personnel\u201d.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wrote last year before the election that the Democrats would see human resource issues in the Defense Department as a way to reduce the budget. the Democrats see the military and it&#8217;s supporters as a bloc of voters they&#8217;ll never impress, but apparently all of the welfare recipients, the lobbyists and all of those other people who suckle at the Federal teat, the ones who need to be cut off, are too politically important to consider cutting off.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>J. Michael Gilmore, assistant director of the Congressional Budget Office, testified that by increasing fees for military health care and restructuring pay raises, the Pentagon could save about $111 billion between fiscal 2010 and fiscal 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The House Budget Committee\u2019s ranking Republican, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, agreed that personnel costs were a problem. \u201cDoD\u2019s health care spending is increasing at an unsustainable rate,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet the Democrats are convinced that they can give healthcare to all Americans &#8211; by increasing the personal costs  of active duty military personnel&#8217;s health care? Yeah, this how we support the troops, by them taking the budget cuts in their rear, while we continue to expand government to pay for the Democrats&#8217; constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends me a piece from Josh Rogin at the Congressional Quarterly about the future of &hellip; <a title=\"I must be psychic\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7615\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I must be psychic<\/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":[47,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck","category-politics","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615","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=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}