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Originally Posted by Dutch
I'm looking for politicians that don't tell me how much more than $6T they need to make things better, but politicians that can tell me how to better utilize the $6T we already give them.
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The trap people are falling into is believing that the GOP are the latter politicians. Republican politicians aren't any more interested in getting the most for each tax dollar than Democratic politicians are. They're just interested in cutting the areas of the budget they don't like. That's not the same thing.
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Originally Posted by Dutch
Although as a veteran, I will say that I'm a bit leery with these politicians that continually target personnel pay and pensions. We need to fix that, but we never should look first to rescind promises we've made to 18 year olds to join the military.
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Right there with you. There's plenty of fat riddled throughout the DOD budget. I'm confident one can find billions without touching people.
Frankly, aside from straight up killing the F-35 program, the single best thing the DOD could do from a budget standpoint is to modernize the procurement process.