US defense budget could be trimmed by 1 trillion $ over the next 10 years

[dead0man]

How long till Hannity proclaims this is hurting our national security?

Now I hate Hannity as much as anybody but how is it NOT hurting our national security to have less war fighting capabilities?  Yeah, it might not ever come up, but having fewer F35s is worse than having more.  It's like leaving a window open unlocked somewhere in your house, sure your house still probably won't be broken into, but you are less secure.

I am still hoping for the day that the military will start producing mechs.

Sounds impractical...

Because it is.  Bipedal robots suck.  You either need an ass ton of feet/legs or tracks/tires.  Tracks or tires are much cheaper and easier to design and maintain.

[dead0man]

dead0man's job relies on massive military spending and unneeded boondoggles, of course he supports bloating the military budget.

If you want to cut the budget so far that the HQs for (from wiki) space operations (such as military satellite), information operations (such as Information warfare), missile defense, global command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR), global strike and strategic deterrence (the United States nuclear arsenal), and combating weapons of mass destruction....no longer need secure communications with the outside world, then yeah, my job is a boondoggle and pure military waste*.

Feel free to find a post of mine that suggests we should "bloat the military budget" and I'll turn Nebraska Dem red.  Everytime it comes up I suggest we should cut the military budget.  I'm for bringing all the troops home from friendly countries and downsizing the military.



*that's not to say there is no waste.  I see waste all the time and bitch about it constantly, but I'm just a peon without a voice bitching to my cow-orkers who agree with me.