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NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)

11. the best way to cut defense spending

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 12:09 PM

Feb 2013

1) Bring home the troops from Afghanistan
2) Close half our bases overseas and relocate the troops there to some place stateside. This has the added bonus of those troops that are spending their money in other countries now spending their money here as well.

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The "Fix" Is In: Laying Bare Some Sequester Lies [View all] WilliamPitt Feb 2013 OP

F-35 isn't going anywhere: TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #1

Chris is a joke. DURHAM D Feb 2013 #2

He simply absorbs what everyone else seems to be saying, and presents it TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #3

He may be worse than average, but this is how EVERYONE from the Beltway thinks BlueStreak Feb 2013 #5

Yes, but because he's such an obvious, shallow regurgitator, he's an easy target TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #6

I definitely agree, but we should understand those are make-work projects BlueStreak Feb 2013 #4

we can make-work by employing people to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.. frylock Feb 2013 #13

a lot of people do get employed in the process. AlbertCat Feb 2013 #15

Exactly. And that is the discussion that is missing. BlueStreak Feb 2013 #16

$435.000,000,000.00 will provide unemployment insurance payments and job training to send DhhD Feb 2013 #7

The F-35 Program needs to be Bill cleaned. DhhD Feb 2013 #8

"Washington Post Lets (anti-Social Security) Lobbyists Write Its Stories" Enrique Feb 2013 #9

They've already spent a lot of that F-35 money NewJeffCT Feb 2013 #10

the best way to cut defense spending NewJeffCT Feb 2013 #11

Sound advice, WRP! n/t Duval Feb 2013 #12

I was just listening to Rendell discuss the need for "entitlement reform" ... Oilwellian Feb 2013 #14

FY 2013 expense for the F-35 is $9.4 billion NewJeffCT Feb 2013 #17

We have to start somewhere. Maybe it is too late for the F-35 BlueStreak Feb 2013 #18

Marking for later read K&R GiveMeFreedom Feb 2013 #19