Defense Secretary Robert Gates said thursday that during this time of national debt he is required to call for cuts to our military. This will be to try and reverse the extreme increase in spending since september 11, 2001. The white house it ordering the pentagon to cut down spending over the next 5 years. This will reduce the amount of budget available by 78 billion not including the money used for combat operations overseas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/us/07military.html?ref=politics
This is good. I mean it took everyone long enough to realize we are throwing oodles of cash at our military for no real reason besides the irrational fear of other countries 1/100 our size. They are asking them to cut 78 Billion from there budget which really is not more that 5%. It would cut about 47000 troops from our standing army which is 6% of our force. That amount won't even slightly make a dent in our troop numbers but it is a start to reducing the overwhelming cost of our military. The real way however to pull our country out of deficit would be to cut spending on our less then productive overseas activities. Doing that would really cut our costs. Everyone is trying to cut money from other areas that would never need to be touched if we just stop spending money overseas. However politicians act blind to the real problems so well wait and see what other cuts the white house has in store for us.
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