GOING AFTER THE LEECHING MOB

The best result from the Presidentail Federal Budget Summit is that the Defense Department is going to be a central focus.

It's about time. The Pentagon has for years been excused from passing audits. It is time to end that.

It is time to stop allowing the defense manufacturers to bleed the budget to where it now is practically past the point of resuscitation. Transfusions are not going to work - there needs to be a rational appraisal of what programs should be eliminated. The variety of conflicts that are likely in today's global instability, are not the type that the Pentagon is prepared for anyhow. Weren't any lessons learned from all the mistakes in Iraq?

Those gigantic items that the likes of Boeing, Northrup, et al rely upon to feed their corporate kitties, need a civilian board to scrutinize what needs to be cancelled, what needs to be dumped forever and what the needs for the reasonable dealing with security will require in the future. They have sucked the department dry and also the patience of citizens like myself.

graysmoke