Military budget cuts; some things remain the same.

We need moral, constitutionally-driven leaders.  Fiction allows us to yearn for such leaders and helps us identify them and demand they serve a Republic that so desperately needs them.

Discussing President Thorpe’s cuts in the defense budget…

            “It’s hurting us.  As always, the first things to suffer is the stuff that isn’t obvious…training, maintenance and upgrades.  We have tanks that won’t run, airplanes that won’t fly and electronics that are broken.  Our readiness has deteriorated tremendously.  My guess its 30 percent off where it was in 2008. 

            “We’re still getting good people; a shitty economy always boosts recruitment.  But the training budgets have been cut to the bone.  We’ve got everything from infantry recruits who don’t have bullets and grenades for live fire exercises to pilots whose training is stalled because the simulators are broken to sailors who ain’t sailing because the ships don’t have fuel. 

            “It’s a mess guys.  We’re still developing and buying the new electronic toys, but we ain’t going to have anyone who knows how to use them.  In my humble opinion, the Administration keeps the sexy stuff they can talk to the press about, but we’re rusting away from the inside.” – Brig. General Zeke Forrest

The Tenth Amendment:  The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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