Though my strategy for winning the war may differ a bit
After the November election, Democrats will push for a second economic stimulus package that includes money for the states’ stalled infrastructure projects, along with help paying for healthcare expenses, food stamps and extended unemployment benefits, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said Thursday.In a meeting with the editorial board of The Standard-Times, Rep. Frank, D-Mass., also called for a 25 percent cut in military spending, saying the Pentagon has to start choosing from its many weapons programs, and that upper-income taxpayers are going to see an increase in what they are asked to pay.
Hey if they’re going to cut shit like the Air Force’s lawn care expenditures and clean out the grossly bloated upper-echelons of command, super! But, alas — the military isn’t very competent when it comes to prioritizing their coin. Unsheath Conquest’s third law of politics and apply to both Congress and the Pentagon: The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, politics are the divine science, and neither are welcome in today’s military.
Such is the way of things, I suppose.
“grossly bloated upper-echelons of command….” Yup. Maybe the way to defeat Al Qaeda is to infiltrate it with a few Arabic-speaking Harvard MBAs. By the time the organization is done arguing over its mission statement we could own Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Maybe we can just give our 401k’s to them up front, since they are already talking about doing this in Congress. Therefore we can have our weapons programs! Hail Ingsoc!