The only thing that gives the so called political party, now long gone, any talking points as to the 'Strong on National Defense', and everyone buys it, is their total support for more and more money added to the defense budgets especially since Reagan's enhancements.
One can go back through the years, decades, and grab the numerous times where costs overruns, corruption, corporate execs compensations, political contributions from defense contractors and just plain waste has been reported with nary a yawn and increased budget figures following.
This latest, and in these recent years since 9/11, isn't even fuzzy math, as the so called debates for ever increasing DoD budgets and National Defense needs, especially by that once political party, now in name only, are the total opposite of the slashing of other budgets funded by us and through congressional reps. who work for us, it's from apparently those who completely failed math in school or cheated for passing grades.
I've posted the following a few times in the past couple of days, but ask when looking at this think about the other then all the reports being talked about, National Security cost needs in the Billions since 9/11 and just for safety of the flying public. All those talked about are extremely important as well especially as to the corporate teahadists freshmen reps running on job creation and how the recovery funds didn't stop the economy from total collapse even while those same party pols were rushing for photo ops on the projects funded by, Shinseki certainly created jobs short and long term in a number of communities.
Tehadist TeBag fiscal? conservatism?, with their 'jobs creating?' No Policies, which was in plain view as to the debt ceiling they created the need to exceed over and over!
No Revenue = Still No Sacrifice, a decade long added to the previous decades with these two wars of their choice, rubber stamped, continuing! How to use 'rovian math' to destroy an economy, while enriching the already grossly wealthy in short time!
The cost of FAA shutdown could exceed $1 billion if unless action taken this week
2 Aug. 2011 - The congressional standoff that has partially shut down the Federal Aviation Administration has some curious math.
Lawmakers risk losing more than $1 billion in revenue from
uncollected airline ticket taxes in a quarrel between Senate Democrats
and House Republicans who are demanding a $16.5 million cut in rural air
service subsidies.
The shutdown is less than two weeks old and already the government has
lost more than $250 million in revenue because airlines’ authority to
collect ticket taxes has expired. The entire annual budget of the rural
air services program is about $200 million. read more>>>
That already lost revenue, with plenty more a comin, went right into the hands of the few, not those buying the tickets, as did the tax cuts to the masses, real quick then just more costs directly after, going out the exhaust pipes for everyone, whether one drives or not, as commodity and merchandise prices rose then, stayed high, and once again this year rising as soon as the cuts were extended!
That money, now heading into the hands of the corporate execs and share holders, also funds the Security needs of the Airports around the Country as well as pays for new and improved technology needs and has since 9/11. That's the world we live in especially after creating even more hatreds, thus enemies, over the past decade. Anything as to enhanced security that was in the pipeline and coming now just sits there, anything as to new security needs or security products is now on hold, delaying upgrading each Airport where deemed in need of or all of them.
The News Hour had a report on last night about the petty childs game being played still by so called representatives of the people and who's playing it.
AIR DATE: Aug. 2, 2011 Budget Impasse, Partial Shutdown Costing FAA Millions in Lost Revenue
SUMMARY
Since July 23, the FAA has furloughed nearly 4,000 employees and shut down construction grants for workers at airport facilities. Judy Woodruff discusses the budget impasse, which is costing the FAA millions in lost revenue, with Public Radio International's Todd Zwillich and USA Today's Ben Mutzabaugh. Transcript
Rachel as well had a report on Congresses inaction, I've been wondering where these new extreme! fiscally? conservative? teahadist freshmen reps will be traveling to, on the tax payers dime, while on this months long vacation.
Rachel had another report on last night, related to the Defense spending and the so called future cuts in, wink wink.
That one relates to a report I posted earlier today on my Veterans site:
The long Decades of DeJa-Vu's continue in a society that finds no problem with wasting huge amounts on a defense industry, even when that waste and corruption comes to light way to late, and those using same ever expanding DoD budgets, while obstructing and short changing the Veterans Administration, and saying they are the only ones 'strong on national defense', while arguing every other real need society budgets should be slashed, even those the citizens contribute to throughout their working lives! After the billions upon billions upon billions spent on defense budgets as well as intelligence gathering, think Powell at the UN, just remember the words of a previous defense secretary when confronted by soldiers in these two present theaters of occupation as to why the faulty equipment or none at all that were killing and maiming their brothers and sisters,
"As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.!", let that sink in as to decades of ever expanding DoD and Intelligence budgets and underfunded VA!
No Revenues = Still No Sacrifice = There Never Was Any 'Support' For The Troops!!
No Sacrifice now a decade long added to the previous decades!!
Already known through decades of our brothers and sisters living those false patriotic? meme's!
Troops worry about effect of budget cuts
Aug 02, 2011 - Cuts in health care, retirement and benefits for the military are all potential targets for cuts as the nation struggles to rein in spending, the top U.S. military officer told anxious troops on two warfronts.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that while the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are going down as U.S. forces withdraw over the next few years, the latest debt agreement will demand defense cuts. Nothing is off the table, he said.
From the Marines battling a fierce insurgency in southwestern Afghanistan to soldiers packing up to leave Iraq, troops quizzed Mullen about rumors that military retirement benefits and health care would be affected as part of the debt compromise being hammered out in Congress.
"If we're going to cut spending, we have to go where the money is," Mullen told several hundred troops gathered at the Al Faw Palace on the soon-to-be-shuttered Camp Victory outside Baghdad on Tuesday morning. read more>>>
Does anybody Really believe this:
"If we're going to cut spending, we have to go where the money is,"
Is going to happen in the Defense Department budget, there still will be underfunding and blame the agency as to the Veterans Administration, outside of possibly some cuts to say they did so, maybe, with with those being added back and added funds also the following budget year from the 'Strong on National Defense' crowd, and in the years coming, and without a wink and a nod to the con put over on the masses.
Tom Brokaw reports The Road Back, a story that follows three families through the war in Iraq. From 2002, before the war, until present day, Brokaw chronicles the lives of an American soldier who fought in the war; an Iraqi family who was living under the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and an Iraqi American family that returned to Iraq to rebuild their homeland. Their dramatic stories put a human face on colossal historic events.
Aug. 6, 2011 - Invisible wounds plaguing men and women in the military -- post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, suicidality -- can be difficult for civilians, and even military professionals, to understand.
August 5th, 2011 - This week on War News Radio, 
3 August 2011 - The Mail on Sunday suggested at the weekend that Tony Blair will face 'scathing criticism' of his role in the launch of the Iraq war when the report of the inquiry under Sir John Chilcot is published in the autumn.
This raises the question of what Mr Blair and Mr Murdoch were talking about in the conversations we now know they held in the days leading up to the invasion on March 20, 2003.
August 1, 2011 - Pursuant to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive on the 50th anniversary of the infamous CIA-led invasion of Cuba, the CIA has released four volumes of its Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation. The Archive today posted volume 2, "Participation in the Conduct of Foreign Policy" (Part 1 | Part 2), classified top secret, which contains detailed information on the CIA's negotiations with Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama on support for the invasion.
August 1, 2011
Until 1893, the Chinese didn't even have a word for "science." That was when a Japanese term originally made its way into the Chinese language, a symbol of just how much of a latecomer China was to modern science.
07/31/11 - Aundray Rogers, an Army veteran and single father of three, worries that he and his children will be living on the street come September.