The NYT Editorial Boards
...The Obama administration (click here) in its 2016 budget requested $534 billion for the Pentagon, a funding level that would untether the Defense Department from automatic spending cuts known as sequestration and usher in an era of increased spending, even as the uniformed force is pared down. While Republicans on Capitol Hill are expected to block many of the key initiatives the White House put forward in its proposed budget, there appears to be bipartisan support for giving the Pentagon a bigger budget, as it tackles challenges that include the bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Russia’s expansionist moves and the proliferation of cyberattacks....
This is called wasteful spending. I sincerely object to returning funding to the USA military so long as there are options to scale back in other ways such as obsolete real estate.
Closing out sparsely used military bases is a matter of national security. I can only imagine the munitions sitting around with minimal supervision or inventory. The land can be used better by citizens. Enough already of the military indulgence when political agendas cause wasteful spending with minimal number of jobs.
Bring military spending down the right way and not with indulged methodology that maintains unnecessary military costs. The Joint Chiefs have a focus for our military and indulging political agendas is not part of it. Get over it already and reduce the cost of the military!
Get rid of the pork and replace hardware. But, trimming the fat has to occur first or simultaneously to make room for a better military and not an aged one. Ending this waste will build ships and jets badly needed to modernize the military. What is everyone thinking?
This type of political indulgence is really infuriating. Return this land to public lands and there will be uses found for it. Uses that may even spawn new jobs. These are artificial jobs. They serve no real purpose. Everything military has to be transported off the land including fences and buildings. It was an abandoned airplane hanger that housed Eric Frein while a manhunt was being conducted. Get rid of it all and cart it off to the recycle or hazardous waste landfill.
And get rid of all the concrete and pavement. We don't need drug smugglers using abandoned landing strips into their profit margins. Where runways are removed and concrete removed the land can be restored.
