putting money to good use
Nov. 11th, 2013 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorThe US just launched another aircraft carrier, the latest and greatest in the fleet. Since we've got a new one on line, perhaps it's time to look at our overall capabilities. The US tends to have the most advanced arms, but even so, policing activities all over the world require a fair amount of resources. So I suggest we use twice what any other country in the world has as the gauge for our equipment levels.
In order to get to twice the number of assets, we'll have to make some changes. Let me spell it out for my fellow Americans:
Minus 2,000 attack helicopters
Minus 7 full size aircraft carriers (that still gives us triple what any other country has)
Minus 3 amphibious assault carriers
Minus 20 attack subs
Minus 10 cruisers
Minus 8 destroyers
Minus 500 fighter planes
Just to be extremely safe, lets mothball half that number and only scrap the other half.
With the money we save on keeping all this hardware active and manned we can do things like: take care of our veterans, buy the nuclear stockpiles of other countries. We hear that budget cuts are reducing the training hours for our armed forces. Let's make sure they get all the training hours they need. To do that, let's eliminate all the assets we don't need and keep what we do need at top training and performance. I'm sure we'll still be able to reduce expenditures, which will increase the financial health of the country and do more for our true strength than any amount of military spending.
In order to get to twice the number of assets, we'll have to make some changes. Let me spell it out for my fellow Americans:
Minus 2,000 attack helicopters
Minus 7 full size aircraft carriers (that still gives us triple what any other country has)
Minus 3 amphibious assault carriers
Minus 20 attack subs
Minus 10 cruisers
Minus 8 destroyers
Minus 500 fighter planes
Just to be extremely safe, lets mothball half that number and only scrap the other half.
With the money we save on keeping all this hardware active and manned we can do things like: take care of our veterans, buy the nuclear stockpiles of other countries. We hear that budget cuts are reducing the training hours for our armed forces. Let's make sure they get all the training hours they need. To do that, let's eliminate all the assets we don't need and keep what we do need at top training and performance. I'm sure we'll still be able to reduce expenditures, which will increase the financial health of the country and do more for our true strength than any amount of military spending.
