In 2013 the United States spending 640 billion dollars to the military budget.
What do you think about this number?
To much of it is being wasted on social engineering of the military.
I could answer that question if I knew everything our military spends money on. Expensive biofuel programs should be scrapped.Troops station in Korea,Italy,Germany, Japan and other countries should be scrapped.Any military personal spying on Americans should be scrapped.Troops involve in countries we are not at war with should be scrapped. Any programs that provide military aid and arms to other countries should be scrapped.There are probably other things that can be cut too. Troops should be only used to defend our country, attack countries that actually attack us unprovoked first and troops stationed on our borders to actually prevent illegal crossing into our country and to use force if necessary to do it.In 2013 the United States spending 640 billion dollars to the military budget.
What do you think about this number?
In 2013 the United States spending 640 billion dollars to the military budget.
What do you think about this number?
And more of it is being wasted funding the USA's military/industrialcomplex which President Eisenhower warned us about in a famous speech.
The USA spends more on preparations for war than all of its enemies combined. A lot of that money is wasted and could be better spent on other things.
I'm not a bean counter, so I won't say a specific dollar amount, but I will say enough to cover: paying our troops, keeping up with maintenance and training, continuing research & development, clandestine operations... things like that. I'd make sure that we weren't paying $400 for a $15 hammer.
I count beans at times.
Spending twice as much money for a politically correct 5.56 mm green bullets that has no lead is a waste of the taxpayers money.
Either Congress double the appropriations for small arms ammunition or our soldiers and Marines spend less than half the time they usaully should on the range preparing for war.
Our enemies don't give a **** it they are shot with a PC bullet or not and neither should we.
I didn't see an option for $14.95
About the only time I'll count beans is when I'm asked to reduce things, as has previously happened. My pet reduction is redundancy in intelligence - not every branch needs its own when the D.I.A. exists and can be centralized.
Re ammo - our young and poor men and women deserve to have the best ammunition. Period.
But some in our society believe that our soldiers and Marines shouldn't be sent into harms way with the best ammunition. Just like some believe that instead of training for war so they bleed less in combat they should be sitting in class rooms being indoctrinated on political correctness.
I think it is about right for a country fighting WW3. It cost a lot of money to have our armies march on every continent, our navy patrol all the oceans, and air force control the skies over most of the world. Empires are expensive to maintain and rule over. It has bankrupted every previous empire in history. It is our turn I guess.What is really sad is we spend more money than almost the entire world on our military and we cannot even secure our own borders. Pathetic.
And more of it is being wasted funding the USA's military/industrialcomplex which President Eisenhower warned us about in a famous speech.
The USA spends more on preparations for war than all of its enemies combined. A lot of that money is wasted and could be better spent on other things.
I totally agree. Sounds a lot like the Roman Empire to me.
How's that outfit doing nowadays? :roll:
I could answer that question if I knew everything our military spends money on. Expensive biofuel programs should be scrapped.Troops station in Korea,Italy,Germany, Japan and other countries should be scrapped.Any military personal spying on Americans should be scrapped.Troops involve in countries we are not at war with should be scrapped. Any programs that provide military aid and arms to other countries should be scrapped.There are probably other things that can be cut too. Troops should be only used to defend our country, attack countries that actually attack us unprovoked first and troops stationed on our borders to actually prevent illegal crossing into our country and to use force if necessary to do it.
Scale it down to $400 billion, I suppose.
Our nation's infrastructure needs an overhaul among other things.
I'd make sure that we weren't paying $400 for a $15 hammer.
That isn't done at the congressional level. Congress simply appropriates funds. The lowly E-3 at Maintenance Battalion will be purchasing the hammers. He can pay whatever he wants to pay for them no matter what congress says. However, if congress cuts his appropriation in half then he'll probably shop around for a better deal next time.
Your solution implies that the higher level cannot correct these types of problems. They can but not via micromanagement. Congress cannot go to every unit in the Army and scrutinize their phone bills.
Not really true. The military has such a thing called an Impact Card in which the PFC could buy a hammer. But his Maintenance shop would be authorized as an example $150.00 a month to purchase miscellaneous supplies. All other requisitions of higher dollar amounts must go through channels for approval and usually bids are taken on the items.
I worked in an Electronics Maintenance Shop, stuff like tie downs, screws, multimeters etc were bought on the impact card. When we converted from copper to fiber the testing equipment requisition for fiber had to go through channels to be approved and added to our TDA of approved equipment. Then bids sent out which someone from the budget section would decide who won the bid.
Plus each organization is allocated so much money for the fiscal year. I really do not know all the inner workings, just how those working effect our shop.
Greetings, Pero. :2wave:
With Russia energetically increasing the size of its military, both in personnel and weaponry, I don't understand why we are decreasing ours. We are hearing, almost on a daily basis. about top level experienced military personnel being fired. Fired! How this is supposed to make us safer is never discussed - it's just what is being done with no explanation from the administration. Last I looked, peace hasn't suddenly engulfed the world - the trend appears to be the opposite. Why are we downsizing now? What is the rationale behind this? :shock: