Army suspends Tuition Assistance program

[Dlachance]

Everyone is for cuts until they realize its going to effect them.

That is not the problem. There are priorities. Soldier education is more important than Obama phones IMO.

[4eyedwillie]

All it says is we have to pay for a army. It doesn't say a damn thing about what gets paid for. Tuition program? Not in there. VA? Not in there. commissary/PX? Not in there. Nothing is in there except pay for a army which means wages, housing, and equipment. All the extras that you think are your constitutional right? Not in there. There is plenty to cut, You just suffer from not in my house syndrome like has been talked about earlier in the thread.

[Forever_frost]

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Cut all of those to the bone before you touch an actual constitutionally mandated obligation

[Forever_frost]

Really? You really think that's a statement I stand behind? I realize we don't all spend a lot of time following each other's musings all over this forum, but this one seems obvious.

Of course fucking defense needs assloads of cuts. But no one on here seems particularly willing to. And if they are they qualify it with "Well you have to cut WELFARE (note the ambiguity) before you can touch American's big dick, even if there is waste in the defense system."

It's like watching fucking 3rd graders negotiate.

Things that should be cut before a dime is cut from the military:

Department of Education: All of it. There are 50 state one and a federal one. Either do away with the federal one or the 50 state ones

Department of Energy: They produce zero engery

EPA: Bloated bureaucracy that has no constitutional authority to exist and was created by EO.

DHS: Redundant department. Disband the department, return all funding to treasury. Push security at airport requirements to the airports and the airlines themselves.

National Endowment for the Arts: If it's art, someone will buy it. You don't need tax dollars

National Wild Horse and Burro Program: I think this is self explainatory

FEMA: State issue
FDIC: State issue or have banks self fund
Freddy Mac & Fannie Mae: No constitutional authority to exist
Administration on Aging: REdundant
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[thesource]

Everyone is for cuts until they realize its going to effect them.

[gnturboray]

Disclaimer: I think that cutting tuition assistance is bullshit, but it's also the result of our inability to come to terms with meaningful cuts.

But they've gotta get out those WIC cards and Obama phones.

[Downs]

Army only?

Marines also. I was checking out for my PCS move to California and was told it was cut. No one gave a shit. More people were upset about the new order for rolled down sleeves year round than about TA.

We're so hard up for money that we're having a hard time getting parts for our planes unless it's a hard downer. They're about to cut any and all training unless it's directly related to a deployment.

[95ragtop]

yes.

[DallasSleeper]

Army only?

As of yesterday it was all branches except the AF

[Dlachance]

Here in AIT, the cadre are preparing to get their licenses to operate the buses. The civilian employees are being cut. Plus, now if you need to go to the hospital (as an let soldier) they are going to be taking you in a HMMWV wearing full kit.

95- are you currently stationed at Carson?

[95ragtop]

The military has been hit extremely hard with budget cuts recently, so how about we trim the fat on some other expenses?

[A+]

Army only?

[Slowhand]

Not at all. There are many other areas that should be addressed before defense spending.

And here we go with the aforementioned "We have to cut this before we cut this."

Never going to cut shit.

[Ruffdaddy]

Not at all. There are many other areas that should be addressed before defense spending.

Lol I thought you were being a smartass at first.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

So it's a perfectly efficient machine? Or operates at any level of cost efficiency?

Not at all. There are many other areas that should be addressed before defense spending.