Elections have consequences.
OBAMA CAMP COULD ROCK MILITARY’S FY-10 BUDGET WITH BIG CHANGES
Military officials who expected President Barack Obama’s team to make only minor revisions to the Bush administration’s fiscal year 2010 defense budget plan could be in for a shock, according to a Pentagon source and internal documents reviewed by sister publication Inside the Pentagon. The armed services’ FY-10 budgets could face far more radical changes than previously imagined, including major cuts, as the Defense Department prepares to start the Quadrennial Defense Review next month, driven by Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ recent call to rebalance DOD’s budget plans.
My job is (theoretically) secure through September, but if you call in October and the line has been disconnected, you’ll know why.
Interesting times.
I read the article and didn’t really sense anything new here. It seemed the memorandum cited focused more on the “net-centric warfare” type things (whatever the Naval equivalent of the Armys FCS) as opposed to slash and burn. Not that slash and burn won’t happen but, given the economic situation I’m not sure that wouldn’t have happened no matter who was President.
The debate about what planes production line to shut down and when argument has been going on for as long as I can remember. And Gates saying we need to focus more on unconventional and asymmetric threats isn’t new either.
The very threat to jobs and programs is real however and it scares the hell out of me. But I didn’t really learn anything new here that we haven’t been talking about for months – its just that much closer to the day of reckoning.
I do worry that, unless we get real about entitlements (and how likely is that?) anything else is window dressing as far as the budget.
And how much we spend and equally how we spend it on defense is something politicians shouldn’t trifle with while at the same time the debate about how many F-22s versus F-35 variants, etc needs to be decided and let industry have some idea what kind of capacity is going to be shelved – probably forever.
It would be easier if we didn’t have enemies wanting to kill us while we do this.
Lex: I’m sure you’ll get funded for current task or something else….
Well, at least it looks like our millions won’t be going over seas to fund abortions via Planned Parenthood as the latest has it that Pelosi’s agenda has been nixed.
This country and “our world” is going to become a crazy place in which to live… just read what Ashley Judd thinks about our nation: http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/YeasandNays/Ashley_Judd_Breathless_0127.html
All of that was at a NARAL gabfest… yes, it would seem that as this is just the beginning, we’d better get out the high hip waders. It’s going to get deeper, faster and it will become a challenge for us to remember the “good old days”. Is it time to circle the wagons just to hold onto what we hold dear?
Ashley Judd swims out to meet troop-ships……
“My job is (theoretically) secure through September, but if you call in October and the line has been disconnected, you’ll know why.”
Ahhhh, the drawback of the government contract services provider. My dad (actually my mother, my dad is a quiet man) says that when he graduated from Rose Polytechnic in 1947 he was recruited hard by the aircraft industry….and many of his classmates joined up with McDonnell and Boeing and such. But he joined a public power utility because the ups-and-downs of companies that provide goods and services to the government by contract was too (unstable? risky? political? subject to whims? maybe all those.)
That is not to cast aspersions on your choice of employer, just an observation my father made at the start of his working career.
It appears that within 30 days of taking office, The Messiah will have contrived to decimate of our military forces; ensure permanent destruction of our economic base; undoing of our taking the war on terror to the lands of the enemy instead of our own; undermining capitalism; pushing healthcare down the road to socialist mediocrity; and saddling our progeny with a crushing load of debt for the rest of their lives.
He is proving to be very effective at achieving his chosen goals. The adoring, but hopelessly ignorant masses, will be applauding all the way.
Sadly, we will get what the ignorant voted for.
I blame the biased news media for their failure to even attempt to reveal the horrors which would ensue, but chose instead to serve as the Obamacrat propaganda organ.
Well, our naval tradition was formed in the days of Preble, and Bainbridge, and Decatur, when we had an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny navy. If we have to deal with that again, I reckon we can. I’d rather we didn’t have to do that.
Hear the latest rumor about how the ONE wants to base the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and save a lot of money on all those useless west coast bases we don’t need anymore since the fleet is so tiny? Worked out swell the last time we tried it but I’m sure results will be better this time.
This will be like BRAC on steroids for California and Washington which can use the abandoned bases for job creation just as it did with all the bases closed by the BRAC commission.
TFJIC!
you know, until it all comes true.
JoeC/
That’s Rose-Hulman near Terre Haute, right?
(Or “Terry Hut” as we like to jokingly say is the way the locals pronounce it–even though they don’t)
Virgil. The same. Born there, raised next door in Illinois. Now Terre Haute has the distinct honor of being home to Illinois’ finest Governors … and if the case plays out, soon to be home to another. (Well after my time. I fled to Uncle’s Navy by choice as soon as the getting was good.)