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Originally Posted by Rochard
It's a rock and a hard place. On one hand we have to slash what we are spending, and on the other hand the more we slash the more jobs we kill.
I really believe that our military does so much with so little. I remember pulling duty driver for our CO and driving his jeep - which was forty years old but still looked like it was brand new. I say keep the money flowing because we are getting a great value for it.
With that said, there are other places we can cut. For the love of god I fail to understand why the Marines have MCRD San Diego. (For any Marines here, yes, I am a PI Marine.) That land has go to be worth a ton of money...
I did both. What does that make me?
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I don't think there is a lot of argument for cutting money that goes to the actual military. I think it's more an argument of cutting the spending going to military/defense contractors.
I mean seriously some of the stuff we are charged for from the contractors in Iraq should be considered theft. There are documented cases of contractors destroying perfectly good vehicles in Iraq for example just because the truck might cost them 30k and they bill the govt 80k for it. Shit like that goes on and on yet nothing is done about it.