As with anything you own that has complex moving parts, you cannot just shut it down and stick it in the corner of the garage and hope it works the next time you NEED it.
You need to put it away right, in good working order, and make sure it is ready to start up again next time. Just parking it with no maintenance is a waste of all of that money you already spent. (to be a little more serious, what are all of those 80,000 people going to do when and if they are dumped on the current job market right now? not to mention the loss to local economies that rely on that personnel.i agree that we should stop as much OVERSEAS spending as we can reasonably stop, and we should PLAN for lowering costs all around, but going cold turkey isnt that great an idea, imho) On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On the one hand I completely agree. We need to get back to basics, get > back to training and strengthen our military after 12 years of persistent > combat. A huge reset if you will. However, we cant reduce readiness. We > need to be a strong ready force not so that we can invade another country, > but so that we are always ready to defend ours. Our military needs to be > strong and ready 24/7, and right now were not. > > Bruce > > On Oct 23, 2013, at 8:41 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Maybe it's time we reduced our military, including "readiness". Maybe the > > next time a hot spot flares up, we'll be FORCED to leave it alone. I for > > one am ready to sit out a few wars. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368047 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
