Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Trumps Budget Proposal Date:   3/13/2017 8:34:04 PM (updated 3/13/2017 8:45:28 PM)

Given the corruption in the DC government, if they turn it over to them to do the contracting, there'll be no improvements or they will be done so poorly that it won't make a difference.  You have to ask yourself how things go so bad... becasue they kept kickiung the can down the road. 

I guess I just worry that the Pentagon will get a bunch of money and waste it.  I don't know what scenerios they are working off of now.  They really need to think if the military is organized to fight the next war and the one after that.   

Obama also gave $600 Million to Africa and i'm sure that wasn't all he gave them.  You have to be careful about foreign assistance.  We need to have good training programs for friendly foreigner military.  Joint exercises, classroom training  is a good bonding opportunity between our military and theirs.  Why is that important?  Because it reinforces the value of democracy, and our logistic planing.  I still don't see why we continue to give Egypt $1.3 billion every year under the Camp David Accords and Israel gets $1.8B.  Everytime you see a President, President's wife, or the VP go somewhere overseas, there is always a "pot sweetner" of goodies that will be left behind.