It's all a mess, and yes, the Dems do cut military historically, which is why I'm a registered republican. One would assume Job security in having a Republican president, but it's not the case. Bush has and is making more cuts in short ammounts of time, than any 2 presidents before him. I don't think you realize how many 40,000 is, lol. That's 1 in every 5 people I know in the Air Force. I look out my window right now and see 10 houses down my street and think, 2 of those 10 will be removed from the Air Force soon. Not to mention there has already been MANY cuts over the last years since all this spending got out of hand. It just saddens me overall :(
ITH and I were laughing about this though. In the briefing the other day, the colonel giving it said they would be saving billions by cutting all these Air Force. That reducing Officers to 9,000 AF wide would save them 2 billion a year. All I could think about was "if you want to save money, stop spending HUNDREDS of BILLIONS on pointless fucking wars". Heh. I just found it sad how easy they could talk about removing people from their jobs. Putting them out on the street. All to save money they could EASILY save in other places.
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