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Lurch wrote:Everybody should have seen this coming for a long time.. The MIC has been bleeding the taxpayers dry for years.. 53% of your taxes go to them..
Doesn't that piss you off? We can take care of business with a SEAL Team or a drone, get their leaders.. there's No reason to spend tons of money on bombs killin innocent civilians in war crimes like Shock-n-Awe..
2seaoat wrote:it will be a massacre in three years..........we will only see the tip of the iceberg to what is coming......we better focus on tourists.....there will not be much else left.
2seaoat wrote:Everybody should have seen this coming for a long time.. The MIC has been bleeding the taxpayers dry for years.. 53% of your taxes go to them..
Doesn't that piss you off? We can take care of business with a SEAL Team or a drone, get their leaders.. there's No reason to spend tons of money on bombs killin innocent civilians in war crimes like Shock-n-Awe..
Bingo.....but the problem now.....how do you shed 40% of your military spending in the next five to ten years without horrible state and local economic dislocation? I do not have the answer, but it is going to get ugly in the panhandle.
PACEDOG#1 wrote:Yep
ZVUGKTUBM wrote:2seaoat wrote:it will be a massacre in three years..........we will only see the tip of the iceberg to what is coming......we better focus on tourists.....there will not be much else left.
They might start with joint-service flight training and a drastic whittling of what goes on at NAS Whiting field. They will start with ending Navy helicopter training and conducting joint helo training up in Dothan at Fort Rucker. That threat has been there for more than 30 years.
There is a lot of room for consolidation in every state--previous BRAC initiatives were mostly just pin-pricks. The only thing holding much of it up are Congressional interference and the fear of losing DOD jobs from districts.
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