I misread something, and when you pointed it out, I abandoned the argument.
You cut a sentence in
half in order to make it appear to say something that it did not say. If you now want to claim it was an accident and you just didn't bother to read and understand your own source... :shrug: well only you know if you're telling the truth. I'm not going to stoop to your level and start calling everyone I disagree with a liar.
I do note that you never did manage to actually dispute the thrust of the report that I linked to
That there is large waste in government? :lol: I think we can safely assume that that's something the vast majority of conservatives (including myself) believe. But the nature of government is to waste. You can make efficiency improvements here and there, sure. But if we could just press the "be efficient" button, we would have solved the Medicare Fraud issue
long ago. If you want to talk about
real savings -
that's a ticket, to be sure.
and I would also point out that this is why links are good.
Yup. That's why I linked for you the FY 2012 DOD budget demonstrating that under the cuts
already putting into place we were
having to cut personnel, operations / maintenance, and procurement. The Marine Corps is jumping through it's butt trying to figure out a way to make cuts while complying with the Commandant's guidance to lose as little combat experience as possible - the best we've got so far is to try to just screw over the guys who aren't as good by making our "up or out" standards more difficult. Though we're getting cut in other places too. I got a buddy who's out, but whose brother joined up and is now in our old sister Battalion. Their BC came out and told them to play Modern Warfare for 6 hours a day, since he couldn't afford them better training for a while.
If we could just clap our hands and make efficiencies keep us from having to make these kinds of cuts, we would be.
You do realize those are not mutually exclusive?
YOU were the one arguing we didn't have to cut Operations/Maintenance and Personnel.
Here,
since you are big on links, let me link you the post in which you rejected the notion that we would have to cut from Ops / Maintenance and Personnel
Gah, this is like earlier when Catawba argued that we owed it to the troops not to cut their benefits, and then stated that instead we should cut their jobs :roll:
We do not have to cut from any area you do not want to to cut spending.
That is correct. We
could, for example, close all of our bases and tell our troops to go home and just pay them to report in every morning via their cellphones. However, what we are looking for
here are
realistic budget deductions.
BRAC saved money because based are expensive. BRAC did not cut troop levels nor was that figured into the savings of BRAC.
That is incorrect - units were decommissioned in conjunction with base closings. I watched this happen down the road in Anniston, Alabama. You may recall how the military shrank during the 1990's? That whole "Peace Dividend"? The "hollowing out of the force"?
The military has time and again found ways to save money.
Yup. If you had bothered to read the information provided for you, you would see how we are doing it right now.
Why build these straw men? Who said painless? Not me. I said it could be done. There is a difference between can do and can't do type people. One tends to succeed more in life.
So you think we
can significantly cut the DOD budget
without cutting personnel or operations and maintenance?
alright - put up or shut up. Let's see your numbers.
