Comment Re:coflicting answers (Score 1) 1011
From this URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
The United States military budget is that portion of the United States discretionary federal budget that is allocated to the Department of Defense. This military budget pays the salaries, training, and health care of uniformed and civilian personnel, maintains arms, equipment and facilities, funds operations, and develops and buys new gear. The budget funds all branches of the U.S. military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. [ I would guess for non-civilian Coast Guard missions ]
You are right, you're no economist, and if you believe that THIS LAME SAILOR played golf in Japan, Go talk to my daughter with the Purple Heart. She won't talk about the road side bomb, but could talk about the Navy father who was always GONE because of less people [Clinton downsizing] to do the work that needed to be done.
The Military is not JUST in IRAQ. And its not chess pieces on a chess board, Its made up of people who do a job, and that like to get paid more than slave labor too.
Part of the 2007 Total Funding of $439.3 Billion was Operations and maintenance = $152.2 Bil. and Military Personnel = $110.8 Bil.
The Defense Department is an EMPLOYER and when Congress reduced the US bases years ago, the communities economy around the bases were cut too.
Everybody's JOB is important, and to use "Admiral Dan Gallery" words in his book: "Clear the Decks!", [Gallery, Daniel V. Rear Admiral U.S.N. (ret.), 1967 ], even the guy cleaning the heads is important to the mission. Captain Gallery captured the U505 in WWII, http://uboat.net/boats/u505.htm/.
Don't just study economics, but US and World History as well.
That is if your head isn't buried in the sand [ Isolationist thinking ] while your butt is sticking in the air.
You are right, you're no economist, and if you believe that THIS LAME SAILOR played golf in Japan, Go talk to my daughter with the Purple Heart. She won't talk about the road side bomb, but could talk about the Navy father who was always GONE because of less people [Clinton downsizing] to do the work that needed to be done.
Once they were hanging out on military bases here, it'd be really easy to argue that their positions could be safely cut (and the money saved)
Downsizing affects everyone and if your job is cut, someone else will have to do more with less. Not to mention the unemployed now trying to find another job. The Military maintains more personal than needed to do JUST the mission so members can be rotated and given time off. Cross training is done to cover each other's butt. I once did the supply stuff when our clerk's father died and I was a airtcraft engine mech working 12 hr shifts 24/7. In 1991, I spent 59 days doing circles in a 200 mile box off the Pacific coast of Panama. Our Coast Guard team recovered 5000 lb of Orange bales while my helicopter provided cover. Maybe your job should be cut and save money?The Military is not JUST in IRAQ. And its not chess pieces on a chess board, Its made up of people who do a job, and that like to get paid more than slave labor too.
Part of the 2007 Total Funding of $439.3 Billion was Operations and maintenance = $152.2 Bil. and Military Personnel = $110.8 Bil.
The Defense Department is an EMPLOYER and when Congress reduced the US bases years ago, the communities economy around the bases were cut too.
Everybody's JOB is important, and to use "Admiral Dan Gallery" words in his book: "Clear the Decks!", [Gallery, Daniel V. Rear Admiral U.S.N. (ret.), 1967 ], even the guy cleaning the heads is important to the mission. Captain Gallery captured the U505 in WWII, http://uboat.net/boats/u505.htm/.
Don't just study economics, but US and World History as well.
That is if your head isn't buried in the sand [ Isolationist thinking ] while your butt is sticking in the air.
