Trump cuts National Forest budget by 71%

[Cletus]

The knuckle draggers will never "get it".

You haven't gotten anything so far, why would we expect you to get "it"?

[Tahuyaman]

They are paying for others just as we had to do because every month when those funds hit the coffers in DC they are diverted to the general fund where they buy more military among other things but NOT what they were collected for.

Why did you quote me and provide a response which had nothing to do with my comment?

[Private Pickle]

You wouldn't know "fair" if it bit you.

I know when you die it will be one less person I'm paying for... Fair?

[Tahuyaman]

What part of CUT escapes you? Cut personnel, cut excessive training, use your resources more efficiently just as in any other business.

Excessive training?



Right. Let's make sure we have a smaller, but untrained or poorly trained military force. That makes perfect sense.


I'm thankful people like you aren't in charge of anything important.

[Private Pickle]

Cut the BLOATED military budget. Pull a few billion out of foreign engagements, cut a couple F-35's which cost between 70 and 120 million each and are currently grounded again due to failure.

Do all those things and you wouldn't even scratch the debt... Military spending is 16% of our budget. Entitlement spending is 66%.

Apparently math isn't a forte of progressives...

[AZ Jim]

Why did you quote me and provide a response which had nothing to do with my comment?

training.

[AZ Jim]

I know when you die it will be one less person I'm paying for... Fair?

Wrong. You apparently don't know much about spousal rights.

[Tahuyaman]

training.

Then you need more. Possibly an excessive amount.

[Cannons Front]

What part of CUT escapes you? Cut personnel, cut excessive training, use your resources more efficiently just as in any other business.

Well first I will say that yes the Dept of Def could do a better job with their money, but so can every agency in the US Gov't. Second the Def budget is less than 20% of the entire budget, do you want us to cut the other 80% in half as well?
Third, the Dept of Defense is not a business, they do not make a product they never will have a positive balance.

As far as your cut everything, who do you suppose will defend our country? there is no such thing as excessive training, if you cut maintaining your equipment it wears out faster and must be replaced at a much higher cost, so you really lose money. I have found that most of the politicians and socialist whack O's that keep yelling Cut defense have always been to much of a coward to serve, but they are brave enough to let others fight for them with less.

[Chloe]

This sort of thing would be like looking over your personal finances to reduce your personal spending but instead of focusing on the things that are making you broke like the luxury car in the driveway that you shouldnt have bought and can't afford, the seven bedroom home that you shouldn't have bought and can't afford, the handful of vacations per year that you put on a credit card that you can't afford to pay off, the cash advance you took so you can support your gaming addiction, and the combination of the unlimited phone plan, 1000 channels on your cable box, and super fast internet, you ignore all of that and focus on your three times a week Starbucks run. Because that's going to solve the spending problem that you claim you care about.