Another miracle from heaven direct to the American tax payer!!!Pentagon board says cuts essential
Tells Obama to slash large weapons programs
By Bryan Bender Globe Staff / November 10, 2008WASHINGTON - A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department's current budget is "not sustainable," and he must scale back or eliminate some of the military's most prized weapons programs.
The briefings were prepared by the Defense Business Board, an internal management oversight body. It contends that the nation's recent financial crisis makes it imperative that the Pentagon and Congress slash some of the nation's most costly and troubled weapons to ensure they can finance the military's most pressing priorities.
Those include rebuilding ground forces battered by multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan and expanding the ranks to wage the war on terrorism.
"Business as usual is no longer an option," according to one of the internal briefings prepared in late October for the presidential transition, copies of which were provided to the Globe. "The current and future fiscal environments facing the department demand bold action."
Great news! When it rains, it damn well must make up for the bloody drought from hell we lived trough before and friggin' pour!!
For the whole article from the Boston Globe, here's the link:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/11/10/pentagon_board_says_cuts_essential/
It might not work since I have a link problem which I ask Blogger to look into. Hope that they will very soon.
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