[Vision2020] roger please supply facts to back up your emails.

[Wayne Price]

Not sure what Roger would recommend in defense cuts, but lets start  
with closing the military academies. $325,000.00 per year, per  
student?  Hell, lets just send the students to Harvard,  Stanford,  
MIT, etc.
A better education AND it doesn't  perpetuate a "military officer  
class".   And how much of the "defense" budget is spent on NCAA  
activities at the academies? That's a great expenditure of defense  
dollars-NOT!

The country was never intended to have a large standing army as we do  
today. And for what? We can't even secure our own borders!  A recent  
example of this is the incursion into the US by the Mexican Air  
Force!   We can't stop the Mexican Air Force, why do we think  we can  
stop border crossers or smugglers?

And no one has ever answered where was the so called "professional  
military" on 9/10 and 9/11?  Asleep at the switch and what was the  
result?  Was ANYONE at the Department of DEFENSE fired? NO!
All that happened is that we now have an internal security apparatus,  
The Department of Homeland Security. Well, if the DEFENSE  department  
isn't responsible for DEFENSE, what are we paying for?

IF we "need" a large army to go off and fight in foreign countries  
(with the support and consent of CONGRESS and the PEOPLE), then a  
large foreign expeditionary force can be created, trained, and deployed.
Is it just a historical accident that BEFORE there was a Department of  
Defense, we actually used to WIN wars? The Department of Defense is a  
costly experiment who's time to depart is long past. We now have more  
military bureaucrats and contractors than we did at the end of WW2,  
when we had some 7 million men and women in uniform!



THATS a good place to start with government cut backs.







On Aug 8, 2011, at 11:52 AM, bookpeople of moscow wrote:

> what big spending programs?
>
> the veterans dept is the second largest dept in the govt.
>
> are you advocating cutting veterans benefits?
>
> the defense dept is the largest govt dept.
>
> what cuts in american defense are you demanding?
>
> what are the big liberal spending programs? please give facts and  
> figures.
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