| Author |
Topic:
Our military is in serious trouble. [Locked] |
Thugoneous  Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
Posts: 1,128
Registered: 2002-11-2 18:00:54
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
NuEM posted:
Ptilk posted:
Why?
Who exactly are they defending Europe from?
Themselves.
You're welcome.
-----signature-----
Lady, people aren't chocolates. D'you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
|
eodoll Posts: 1,028
Registered: 2002-2-14 12:35:42
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
|
Well it's more than defense I guess... I think it's a question of monopolozing the war market. If you can have the monopoly on all things war, then you're pretty safe - everyone else is at risk.
Like with any product, if you dont allow any competition to exist or make sure all your competition is too small to really be an obstacle then you get to remain top dog.
It's not a bad place to be if you're an American.
|
__Bonk__  Posts: 5,122
Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
The US needs to seriously cut the size of its military. It cant afford it any longer.
-----signature-----
I keep my eyes fixed on the sun!
A change in feeling is a change in destiny.
|
Sgian_Dubh  Posts: 446
Registered: 2003-4-7 10:19:52
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
eodoll posted:
Well it's more than defense I guess... I think it's a question of monopolozing the war market. If you can have the monopoly on all things war, then you're pretty safe - everyone else is at risk.
Like with any product, if you dont allow any competition to exist or make sure all your competition is too small to really be an obstacle then you get to remain top dog.
It's not a bad place to be if you're an American.
What you've just described is the natural evolution of any capitalist market.
-----signature-----
"  ou'll rue the day you crossed me Trebek!"
|
PackHunter Posts: 47
Registered: 2001-12-20 06:39:10
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
Ptilk posted:
On that same subject, who exactly is the US military defending the USA from?
You own poor.
Without the military, where do you think most would end up? Yale?
-----signature-----
"Adapt or Die"
http://www.werenotafraid.com/
http://www.iamnotafraid.ca/
"A friend doesn't mean you're kneeling in front of him" - G. Duceppe
|
feelips Posts: 24
Registered: 2009-6-1 19:51:50
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
Voodoo-Dahl posted:
feelips posted:
By the look of things, it is going to get a lot worse. Over the last 20 years, I have seen the number of aircraft and uniformed personnel cut drasticaly. Today the air force has about half the number of permanent bases, uniformed personnel, and aircraft as it had 20 years ago.
I don't think the claim has any basis in reality whatsoever.
We have 400 less F-16 fighter jets and 400 less F-15s today, and we retired 650 F-4s. The air force just announced that it is retiring 1/3 of our A-10 fleet. Our bomber fleet is also less than half of what it was 20 years ago.
Our 187th and final F-22 just came off the assembly line. F-35s are.... who knows? Then our numbers were over 500,000. Now our numbers are 325,000 with promises to cut it even more.
-----signature-----
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people."
|
|
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
|
Been a very long day but I read something recently where a lot of DoD organizations are not allowed to shop around for a better price they are told so and so contracting will do job X for Y dollars... or you must purchase product X for Y dollars even though you can find a dozen places to get Product X for half the price.
This wasnt a DoD thing Congress worked this into a bill a few years back.
|
Thugoneous Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
Posts: 1,128
Registered: 2002-11-2 18:00:54
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
The navy is bragging about using "green fuel" that cost a lot more than regular diesal or jet fuel. While at the same time cutting sailors who want to serve.
-----signature-----
Lady, people aren't chocolates. D'you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
|
|
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
I often wondered about this too. It's not just an American problem. At the firm inwork for We have whole lines of business set up to advise the government on not just military but health, infrastructure etc
We recruit these people that used to be military of work for the dept of health/transport etc and then charge stupid amounts of money ($1300+ per hour if it's a partner) for advising on the work the work they had been doing in the first place.
-----signature-----
smellymotor
Young and Free
|
Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Our military is in serious trouble. |
|
Military contracting work has been, since the beginning of time, a very good way to line the pockets of politically connected favorites.
|
|
