Do You REALLY Think We Can't Reduce the Defense Budget?

[CuteOldGuy]

There might be some room for some cuts. But that's just me.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/was...toad-sculpture

[Philhelm]

No. In fact, I think it is necessary. Running a guns and butter economy indefinitely is insane.

[lacrew_2000]

I hope the sculpture thing is an April Fool joke.

[CuteOldGuy]

LA, I wish it was, too.

[john_galt]

Always bear in mind that some budget cuts will cost lives on the battlefield so be careful about what you cut.

Here is one thing; the federal government buys SUVs by choosing the least expensive model in the competition so a manual transmission always wins. Then the governments around and rebids the vehicles for conversion to an automatic transmission at after market prices. The rules do not allow them to pick an automatic off the assembly line.

[lacrew_2000]

I saw plenty of waste in the Army...it was everywhere...so there is definitely some room for belt tightening there.

I was assigned to work with the DA civilians for a while, and I got to witness how they responded to Al Gore's 're-inventing government'. If you remember, he was looking for waste in government. What did the DA Civilians do? They assigned somebody to 'find waste'...but that somebody really just wasted months of time tallying up every little task that each civilian did...resulting in their conclusion that there were no positions which could possibly be cut. Go figure .

So an independent auditor (really independent, not some IG team) would be great in the military.

[Philhelm]

Originally Posted by john_galt

Always bear in mind that some budget cuts will cost lives on the battlefield so be careful about what you cut.

The mindset that the U.S. should police the world will cost many more lives on the battlefield.