By: CARealist
Agree with the other comments. 1) the defense industry is currently one of the strongest we have. 2) we still make things in the defense industry versus broker from others as in most other industries....
View ArticleBy: rbrenzelsr
Economically speaking, in a $13.Trill American Economy, moving Defense spending from Bush’s 4.5%/5.5% of GDP range to 5.6% is peanuts. What is cogent for Obama’s thinking is that watering down...
View ArticleBy: Greg Grant
A few points. The piece does not say defense spending should be cut. What I am saying is the data shows a causality between defense spending and economic booms only when that spending reaches a very...
View ArticleBy: DC2 Jennings
I don’t think we should be looking at any one sector to spend money and boost the economy. We should be looking at all sectors.Our nation’s infrastructure has not been improved or upgraded in years....
View ArticleBy: Matt
“…looking around the world today, a big war along the lines of World War II does not seem very likely.”Sounds a bit ominous to me.
View ArticleBy: bobbymike
DC2 — One question “infrastructure has not been improved in years”, why? There are city, county, state and federal infrastructure budgets and planners. Where did the money go?So if the politicians were...
View ArticleBy: FooMan
It is not what we spend but how we spend it. Every member of the congress needs to look at every item and say; “does this make any normal paying, permanent, jobs? If I personally had to pay for this,...
View ArticleBy: Chief Houston
It is always a pleasure to read opinions from our military members. Thank you for expressing your ideas.“We” gentleman are the opinion leaders that make the changes we need come true. Economists vs....
View ArticleBy: DC2 Jennings
From Bobbymike,“Prime example from this week. Obama and the Dems expand SCHIP health care for children that covers families of four up to $80k/year and families of five that make up to $100K/year of...
View ArticleBy: DensityDuck
It’s worth pointing out that much of the reason for defense procurement being slow and complicated is due to the government’s decision that it should be so. There’s no reason that, e.g., we couldn’t...
View ArticleBy: DC2 Jennings
One more thing:You think $30B is a drop in the bucket? What about $400B? That is how much (and then some) we paid on interest to our national debt. That is a lot of stimulus in my small mind.DC2
View ArticleBy: ELP
If the U.S. government wants to run two wars and run all kinds of peace operations, it better come up with the money or go fish.
View ArticleBy: Frank
Having seen defense spending from the inside, its pretty wasteful. Consider, head of a major agency spent 180 days a year briefing his budget from major commands up through the concrete maze to DC...
View ArticleBy: Reader Bob
We need to look back to the Carter years and directly after and study what he did to the military. After understanding his actions, their results, we then need to look and understand what it took to...
View ArticleBy: Bob McDoangh
We have to make wise choices in what is selected for future use in the military. As one who spent 20 years in the Navy,Air Force and Navy Reserves, I believe we have to concentrate on unmanned aircraft...
View ArticleBy: Bob McDonagh
I tried to send you a message. I made one spelling error in my name. When I corrected that I found out my entire message was erased. (guess)just go look at my website: http://www.navalair estates1.com.
View ArticleBy: Bob McDonagh
I looked at a pair of aviation pants on some website. Costs: nearly $200.New American jobs created. negative number. These were made in some SE Asia Country. Cost to make: about $3. Shipping: $2. Net...
View ArticleBy: Russ Strong
How about military funding that looks at the paradigm shifts and develops and combines new technologies to meet this? With this, we are not just funding continuation of existing hardware that will be...
View ArticleBy: Carl D
KISS. Any time our elected officials spend a dime it has to come from the taxpayer OR the value of the dollar goes down as we print additional money. With all of the spending going on in Washington...
View ArticleBy: Tim
I work for the Air Force, normally I would say that Defense spending DOES help the economy a lot, at least it did in the past. Now the way the DOD operates, I am not so sure. This is because of the...
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