Posted on Aug 5, 2016
The Shrinking Military Budget Is Killing Our Readiness
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Duh! Ya think so? When the Air Force has to go to Airplane graveyards, or an organization, like the VFW or American Legion, to get parts for their aircraft, you kinda realize the budget is almost nil.
In an exclusive op-ed for Task & Purpose, Sen. John McCain warns of the costs of the shrinking military budget.
Years of budget cuts to the military are sending our service members straight to Arizona.
No, our airmen aren’t shipping out to my beautiful home state for a much-needed vacation. Faced with the reality that we now have the oldest, smallest and least ready Air Force in history, our airmen are resorting to searching for spare parts from retired aircraft in “The Boneyard” at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson just to get their planes back into combat.
In an exclusive op-ed for Task & Purpose, Sen. John McCain warns of the costs of the shrinking military budget.
Years of budget cuts to the military are sending our service members straight to Arizona.
No, our airmen aren’t shipping out to my beautiful home state for a much-needed vacation. Faced with the reality that we now have the oldest, smallest and least ready Air Force in history, our airmen are resorting to searching for spare parts from retired aircraft in “The Boneyard” at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson just to get their planes back into combat.
The Shrinking Military Budget Is Killing Our Readiness
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When you look at how much we're spending on Contractors alone (reportedly 27,00 deployed to the Mideast currently), aside from O & M funding for the active components then you find the true culprit in Pentagon spending! Consider the F-35, LCS, along with failed Afghanistan and Iraq infrastructure spending, you witness a colossal mixture of Fraud, Waste & Abuse expenditure not witnessed since Vietnam. The Pentagon can't even balance it's books and then McCain has the nerve to speak about inadequate Defense spending...it's not a revenue problem, it's a spending problem!
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We are on track for a $600B deficit for this FY, how much is the DOD budget? 6% of our tax revenues go to servicing the debt. Hillary wants more taxes and more spending. This should end well for those in the future.
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MCPO Roger Collins, Clintons speech last week- "Trump wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. Well, we're not going to do that. I going to make sure I raise the taxes on the middle class." And everyone screamed and yelled and clapped. They either didn't understand what she said, or they are as gullible as a moron.
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SGT (Join to see) - Remember Jim Jones and the KoolAid? Blind/deaf followers by choice.
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