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commissioned by Barney Frank recommends nearly $1Trillion in defense cuts
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Bankrupting America with trillion-dollar budget deficits and now they want
to leave America less protected by cutting $1 trillion from our defense
budget. Simple solution = stop funding Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and
bailing out Wall Street and the unions.
The Hill
<http://thehill.com/homenews/house/102677-panel-commissioned-by-barney-frank-recommends-nearly-1t-in-defense-cuts-to-close-deficit>
reports:
A panel commissioned by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is recommending nearly
$1 trillion in cuts to the Pentagon’s budget during the next 10 years.
The Sustainable Defense Task Force, a commission of scholars from a broad
ideological spectrum appointed by Frank, the House Financial Services
Committee chairman, laid out actions the government could take that could
save as much as $960 billion between 2011 and 2020.
Measures presented by the task force include making significant reductions
to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, which has strong support from
Defense Secretary Robert Gates; delaying the procurement of a new midair
refueling tanker the Air Force has identified as one of its top acquisition
priorities; and reducing the Navy’s fleet to 230 ships instead of the 313
eyed by the service.
Shipbuilding has strong support in the congressional defense committees,
which write the Pentagon bills. Efforts to reduce the number of ships would
run into resistance from the Pentagon and the shipbuilding lobby.
Frank on Friday warned that if he can’t convince Congress to act in the
“general direction” of the task force recommendation, “then every other
issue will suffer.” Not cutting the Pentagon's budget could lead to higher
taxes and spending cuts detrimental to the environment, housing and highway
construction.
The acceptance of the recommendations would depend on a “philosophical
change" and a “redefinition of the strategy,” Frank said at press conference
on Capitol Hill.
He said the creation of the deficit reduction commission offers the best
opportunity for the reduction recommendations. Frank wants to convince his
colleagues to write to the deficit reduction commission and warn that they
would not approve any of the plans suggested by the commission unless
reduction of military spending is included.
Sounds like obstructionism to me. It's a great idea to cut our defense
spending while we have Islamic terrorist plotting against America.
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