Fiscal Cliff?

[lawrocket 3]

Yep. Others should have their gravy train shuttered. But keep mine.

Looks like there will be fewer Jill Kellys to be ambassadors to CENTCOM in the Tampa Area.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[billvon 3,132]

>You mean the government check that recovers . . .

Yes, the government check that he has a reason to feel entitled to. Funny how so many people have their own reasons as to why they are entitled to money from the government - but no one else is.

"Get your government hands off my Medicare!"

[SkyDekker 1,465]

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You mean the government check that recovers personal property that was taken from him under threat of imprisonment and loss of liberty?

Isn't that same threat how he got the money in the first place?

[champu 1]

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It is a fiscal cliff in the Tampa Bay Area because it could close of negatively effect CENTCOM and SOCOM. We would be hurtin' fer certin' without the DOD funding in this part of the country.

What the pentagon spends money on should be based on what it needs to accomplish its national security mission. That may result in seemingly odd spending if, for example, the pentagon determines that it will need widgets to win a future war, and if it would be very difficult to start up a widget industry in a hurry, and if there was one company left in the country that made widgets, it might make sense to buy some amount of widgets to keep pump primed. It could very easily be money well spent... same reason you want to keep leaders around as conflicts wind down so they can bring their experience back to training facilities.

But...

The pentagon is not there to support a town because inertia demands it. If that's the best argument to continue a particular line item in the defense budget then there is no argument. This is my biggest beef with congress having so much control over the details in the pentagon's budget these days, it's almost impossible to keep it about the country.