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Thursday 24 November 2011
by: Dina Rasor, Truthout | Solutions
http://www.truth-out.org/pentagon-flunks-another-audit/1322085539
How can you know what to cut if you don't know where the money is going?
The military-industrial complex is in high alert. They can't really believe that the Obama administration will keep its word and veto any Congressional action that would try and get the Pentagon out from the sequestration problem of cutting over a half a trillion from the Department of Defense (DoD) budget over the next ten years. If they are confident it won't happen, they are doing a good job of panicking over the cuts
for public consumption and to protect their turf.
News articles and columns are popping up with various lists of what could be cut to come up with the money, and the DoD is maneuvering to offer up cuts on military pensions and health care, readiness and training budgets to save the required amount of money without touching their holy grail, the overpriced and ineffective weapons systems.
Although the DoD acts like Armageddon is just around the corner with these looming proposed cuts, it is really still looking at the low-hanging fruit. There is more than enough money left to fund national security if the Pentagon would change its ways.
Winslow Wheeler, the director of the Straus Military Reform Project, points out what a realistic cut this is when put in context:
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