(Military) Base vulnerable to more big cuts

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Base vulnerable to more big cuts
By Reuters
By Andrea Shalal-Esa
Posted: 12:05 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2013

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon would have to slash its budget by about $20 billion in fiscal 2014 if mandatory budget cuts remain in effect, the chief arms buyer for the U.S. military said, calling that an increasingly likely scenario.

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Kendall told the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit that an “awful lot of smaller programs” faced delays, cuts and even cancellation if the cuts stayed in effect, while fewer of the big-ticket weapons programs would be affected.

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He declined comment on the possibility of U.S. strikes on Syria, but said the budget cuts would limit the military’s ability to respond to natural disasters like the 2010 earthquake in Haiti or the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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If the budget cuts stayed on the books, Kendall said the U.S. military would likely end up with tiered system that provided some military units with very good equipment, and others with older, less capable equipment.



unhappycamper comment: Here's the problem:



Here's my solution: Drop that blue slice o pie from 57% to around 40% of all discretionary spending and use the 17% cut in military spending for useful stuff like food, jobs and infrastructure.

Another suggestion:Be a Progressive Democrat, not a warmonger.