by Sebekiz » Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:37 pm
The only problem I have with this process is that the stated reasons (budget savings) are nearly worthless. $48 Billion sounds like a lot of money, but $48 Billion over 20 years? That's maybe 1/2 of 1% of the Military's budget for those two decades, assuming that it doesn't increase all that much?
Saving $2.4 Billion (Roughly $8 per citizen) is such a drop in the bucket compared to the $2.5 Trillion US Annual Budget that I honestly can't get that excited, particularly given that hundreds of communities are going to be heavily affected to save that pittance.
I'd rather see the military and government try to come up with some substantial savings vs. ones that appear to be little more than a shell game. If they are going to save a penny here and there and claim huge "victories" over the deficit from such small changes, we're never going to get the deficit reduced. Especially once the current Social Security suplus goes negative and the Government's quasi-legal practice of lending the surplus to itself at little to no interest backfires when it doesn't have the money to repay what it already owes to the Social Security sytem.
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