Romney's Proposed Defense Budget ...

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Originally Posted by whell

Finn - referring to the article, Romney stated he would not pay for the spending with additional borrowing. You have posted on numerous occasions about gross inefficiencies with the DOD. If those wasted dollars can be redirected to properly equip and resupply the military, so much the better. There are any number of folks on both sides of the aisle who have observed that the military preparedness has declined since the latter part of the last decade. Sounds like a reasonable proposal to fix some issue sat the DOD while also addressing preparedness.

Money is fungible and Romney can't make an argument that he's going to take the money from a non-borrowed pot rather than a borrowed pot. As long as the country is running a deficit, the Defense budget is part of that deficit.

Military preparedness has declined by virtue of two wars going on for a decade. We're done with one and will soon be done with the other. This budgetary increase isn't about preparedness, it's about buying expensive weapons systems we don't need (and the Pentagon doesn't even want).