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Old 08-04-2011, 04:46 PM   #16
rushiddink

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Dude. I believe that we can cut a lot of waste from military spending but those changes.....no.

What we need to look into is defense research and development. We spend a lot of money on projects that go nowhere. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle is one such example of an unnecessary project that cost hundreds of millions to develop and is the most useless vehicle in the arsenal.

Another thing we need to do is close military bases. We have too many world wide. We should pull out all together from Iraq, we are still bleeding billions over there and we need to NOT put troops on the ground in Libya and keep our investment in that conflict to a minimum and let NATO and other countries bear the brunt of the cost.

Then finally put an end to no-bid contracts and get private security contractors out of official military business. We do not need them and they seem to do more harm than good anyway.

If you want to talk about agencies that we need to eliminate...one such agency would be the DEA. They are failures. They cannot win the war on drugs. Taking them out will save 50 billion right there between their operations, salaries and judicial costs. The legalize most recreational drugs and tax and regulate them which will bring in even more revenue.

We kind of need the CIA. They are a necessary evil that can save the country billions in war costs by defusing situations before they get out of hand and the Army and Marines are kind of important as are the Reserves and National Guard. If I need to explain why, then it's not worth explaining.
Yeah, I agree with you more. Especially about closing all of those post WW2 Cold War bases. Since America is not an Empire, we are wasting money in trying to appear as one. We all know what eventually happens to empires, don't we? Let's avoid that, and dedicate our military to its original function. And save a helluva lot of dough in the process. Lets turn swords into plowshears again.
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