The military is out of control with a weak President in the Oval Office. They are walking all over him.
All the miltiary has to do is scare Trump into action and/or state something positive about Obama and then Trump will want to undo the Obama footprint. This is the USA military running the country. Does the new tax structure HURT the miltiary?
National Guardsman meets baby for the 1st time, surprising kids after 11 month deployment (click here)
December 1, 2017
By Eliza Murphy
Army Specialist Seth Howard got the best presents in the world when he returned home to his family after an 11-month deployment to Jordan on his 27th birthday.
“I couldn’t have asked for anything better in the whole world,” he told ABC News of surprising his 3-year-old twins, Riley and Liam Howard, at their school, Gahanna Christian Academy, in Ohio.
“I was so excited. I was shaking I was so nervous,” he said. “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do since I got in the military. I was going to walk into the classroom, but the academy took it upon themselves to make a big, big deal about it. It was so awesome. It was even better than I could imagine.”...
Generals are critizing the tax cuts and reform, while defense hawks are satisfied. Republicans do not care about the country or the American people; they are pandering to cronies.
December 1, 2017
By Joe Gould
The White House-backed tax plan (click here) is projected to increase the deficit by $1.4 trillion over the next decade, but Senate defense hawks are saying they’re not worried that steeper deficits will squeeze future military spending.
If they are wrong, and tax reform creates higher deficits with less headroom for defense spending, it could raise hurdles for the Trump administration’s ambitious plans for a military buildup to 355 ships, 1,200 Air Force fighter jets and thousands more Marines. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said in Capitol Hill testimony that those plans require sustained defense spending growth through 2023.
In a Senate floor speech Wednesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Jack Reed, slammed the GOP as selling out the military to give a tax cut to the rich. Reed plans to offer a measure to retain the estate tax, which has historically been used to fund wars....
