These Lay-Abouts Will Get More Funding When They Get To Work!
Flash forward to 1992. There was an even better reason to cut the military budget. The Soviet beast had been felled without firing a shot. Freedom had won, Germans were kissing each other in the Potsdamer Platz and the Russians were drinking themselves to death within their own borders. Why bother maintaining the Cold War military when we had no enemies to fight?
It is now the glorious year 2009 and we have a new Democratic administration. Barack Obama, on cue, has made it clear he wants the military budget slashed by more than 10%. Nothing new to see here considering, hell, Bubba cut the military by a lot more than that. Of course, for those keeping track, there is a minor difference between the here and now and the halcyon days of pre-Lewinski America; it so happens we are in the midst of a two-front war.
It begs the question, how utterly depraved must you be to cut funding to the military during a war? It is almost unthinkable as it is so obviously stupid. What type of jerk-off cretin would undercut his military in the middle of a fight? I had hoped, against all real logic I suppose, that THIS ONE would have some sense and break ranks with his treacherous, duplicitous and seditious cohorts. Imagine if FDR had decided to spend less on the war effort to build new resort proctology clinics. “Sorry Georgie Patton, can you make do with only two armored divisions instead of four? Don’t feel bad chum, the Germans have it worse! They’re using Soviet POW’s to haul around their artillery and are eating horses!” Who needs to win, we have a stimulus package to pass!
But is a new era and Change has arrived. I suppose the military had it coming. After all, those lay-abouts have been cooling their heels on our dime for too long. Would you believe, the last time I was on an Army post those freeloaders were walking around in civilian clothes and NOT working? It gets worse. These jack-asses have so much time on their hands that they have costume parties on a weekly basis. I don’t know why, but Joe has a predilection to wander around something called the WTU dressed as pirates, complete with eye patches and hooks for hands. Don’t they know that there is a recession on? How could they be so blatantly insensitive to the plight of the union auto worker from Detroit, or the crack dealer recently laid-off on the corner of Teutonia and 27th in Milwaukee? How can they ignore the sufferings of those who need renovated abortion clinics and research into bi-sexual midget porn? Like our Dear One said, we must all sacrifice for the benefit of the nation. I say put these bastards to work for less!
For those not in the know, when the military loses funding it does not cut back on weapons or other operational costs. No, for some reason the resident brass brain-trust places the mission first and that means cutting what the fascists like to call “non-essential” spending. The latter generally encompasses everything that doesn’t involve guns, bombs, tanks and replacement weapons. So bye-bye funding for soldier and family oriented programs and anything else that would make those candy-asses and their greedy families comfortable. To hell with them anyways, they have it too good. Like a good friend once said, “why so serious?” I don’t know about you but I think it does a family good to get rid of the father for a year. Its less time spent on NASCAR trips and other stressful family vacations. From the soldier’s point of view it is also a great deal too, after all, kids grow up and out of the house much more quickly if you only see them every other year.
So here we go again. It’s like Groundhog Day around here. Vets grumble about what the similarities with the cuts that Bubba put in place. Older gents, like my Dad did, groused about the return of the Carter years when the military was weak and one spare apart away from disaster. Ha! The joke is on them. Don’t they realize that Change has come? Who needs comfort for military families and wounded soldiers (or victory)when they have Hope and Cookies?
