Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level

This has been Obamas plan from the beginning. He hates the military and he has not been afraid to say it.. HE wants our POLICE to be the military here .. This is very dangerous for him to cut our troops.. This makes us very vulnerable .. Pentagon Set to Slash Military to Pre-World War II Levels - NBC News

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I favor cutting ALL government spending. Military spending included.

:cuckoo:

Are they still teaching American History and Government in schools where you grew up?

The very first and unquestioned reason for having a Federal government is to provide for the common defense.

You failed your first and most basic test.

Go home.

Study.

Return when you know shit from Shinola.

TYVM.

Here's a tutorial for you.

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No need for the military. Al Qaeda has been decimated.

It is said that we tend to try prepare to fight the most previous war when our enemies are thinking of a different way to challenge us.

You would remove from the enemy any reason to try challenging us in a new manner.

You want to make us vulnerable to the OLD threats.

The enemy would certainly appreciate your attitude.
 
There is a lot of waste in the military.

Cut It!

Hagel (under Obama's orders) doesn't want to just cut it, he wants to GUT it!
The Statists haven't learned a damned thing from history. What has happened every time we have cut back forces? WE are always left with our pants down around our ankles when the shit hits the fan. Hagel is playing a dangerous game...AGAIN.
 
We are not under any kind of existential threat such as we were during the Cold War. It is impossible to justify our Defense budget, even when adjusted for inflation, being higher than it was during that entire period.
 
We don't need armed forces.

Everybody in the world loves us.

It's been that way since January, 2009.

Hasn't it?
57% say Obama and the US aren't respected in the world...so HELL? Cut the military and open the door to attack/invasion...

Hagel and Obama are playing a very dangerous game.

:lol:

What country would be capable of invading us?
 
This is a dangerous, dangerous decision.

Nuclear responses are made more necessary and more likely if our ability to fight two major wars simultaneously as well as a smaller military conflict can't be handled by this smaller Army size with conventional weapons.

This could be a positive outcome. We have proven that boots on the ground with conventional weapons is a failed strategy...especially when ROE tie those boots in knots. A policy of well placed nukes announced to the world could be just what is needed.
 
We had about 480,000 US soldiers in 1998. Nobody invaded.

We now stand around 560,000. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down. Demobilization is SOP for post-war periods.
 
If ANYTHING? WELFARE, domestic spending should be CUT to the bone.

*cough*

1. Return Defense spending to pre-9/11 levels. We are currently spending at levels not seen since WWII. More than during the Cold War when we actually faced an existential threat. Even a lot more than during Reagan's huge defense buildup.

2. Raise the Social Security and Medicare eligibility ages to 70 and index to 9 percent of the population going forward. We are living longer, we should be working longer.

3. Ban all tax expenditures. Over $1.2 trillion a year is being spent on them. That is nearly the same as our federal deficit.

With these three simple solutions, we would not only balance the budget, we would have several trillions of dollars of surplus cash over the next decade with which to not only pay down the debt, but to also lower everyone's tax rates.
 
We had about 480,000 US soldiers in 1998. Nobody invaded.

We now stand around 560,000. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down. Demobilization is SOP for post-war periods.

We are in the same war we were in in 1998...bubba didn't realize it then and Obabble doesn't realize it now.
 
Our fighting force is much more efficient and we don't have the threat we had in the 40s
 
No need for the military. Al Qaeda has been decimated.

It is said that we tend to try prepare to fight the most previous war when our enemies are thinking of a different way to challenge us.

You would remove from the enemy any reason to try challenging us in a new manner.

You want to make us vulnerable to the OLD threats.

The enemy would certainly appreciate your attitude.

I was being facetious. Obama said it...remember? [MENTION=45791]Mojo2[/MENTION]
 
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We had about 480,000 US soldiers in 1998. Nobody invaded.

We now stand around 560,000. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down. Demobilization is SOP for post-war periods.

We are in the same war we were in in 1998...bubba didn't realize it then and Obabble doesn't realize it now.

We were not under any kind of existential threat.

The federal debt has now become our biggest threat to national survival.
 
If ANYTHING? WELFARE, domestic spending should be CUT to the bone.

*cough*

1. Return Defense spending to pre-9/11 levels. We are currently spending at levels not seen since WWII. More than during the Cold War when we actually faced an existential threat. Even a lot more than during Reagan's huge defense buildup.

2. Raise the Social Security and Medicare eligibility ages to 70 and index to 9 percent of the population going forward. We are living longer, we should be working longer.

3. Ban all tax expenditures. Over $1.2 trillion a year is being spent on them. That is nearly the same as our federal deficit.

With these three simple solutions, we would not only balance the budget, we would have several trillions of dollars of surplus cash over the next decade with which to not only pay down the debt, but to also lower everyone's tax rates.
Have a cold? Cough away from me. BYE.
 

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