And why, pray tell, would you believe that reducing military budgets prevent the use of the Navy as a missile deterrent? The military, even with modest budget decreases, has a metric ass ton of money. The question is not whether they have the money but rather what they prioritize to use it on.
Witness the annual hand wringing over base closures. Every administration, every Sec. of Defense, acknowledges that we ought to close some bases as we don't need them and they cost money. But every base is a cache of jobs in someone's Congressional district. And every defense contractor makes sure that they have *something* being made all over the US so any time that someone suggest scrapping a useless weapons program, the defense contractor can point to the jobs lost in the district of Congressman P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y and Z with at least two of them being on appropriations and defense related subcommittees. Money isn't our problem for defense. The will to focus and reform and use it wisely is the problem. Judah On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:07 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > My only problem with using the Navy as a missile deterrent is the fact > that there is also talk of reducing military budgets... as there > always is with a Democrat administration. > > Hatton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:304438 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
