New Defense Budget Cuts

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I was just reading an article about a new Defense budget being proposed, it would cut F-22 production and increase production of the F-35, you can read the article here.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/finance/20090406/Defense.Budget/

[oakranger]

Yea, stop producing the F-22 would cut 90,000 jobs.  Ah, American Government once again make bad piss pour judgment. 

[Motherland]

Yea, stop producing the F-22 would cut 90,000 jobs.  Ah, American Government once again make bad piss pour judgment. 

Sorry, I don't really have any expertise in this field, but I'm confused of how it could take 90,000 people to make a few hundred F-22s.

[oakranger]

i am not sure about that too.  i just repeating what i saw on the news about it.

[fudgums]

they might be moving it to the F35 production

[crazyivan]

they might be moving it to the F35 production

Thats what the article proposed. Nice to see their not spending 13 billion on new Marine One Helos.

[Serenity]

Sorry, I don't really have any expertise in this field, but I'm confused of how it could take 90,000 people to make a few hundred F-22s.

Not sure, but if I was TRYING to use up 90,000 people, I would do it like this:

Subcontracting each and every individual part
Count the people who make each screw and bolt
The people who make the rubber
the guy who supervises the guy who supervises assembly,

you get the picture. Fanatacism methinks. I still think we should at least keep producing the sexy plane, since neither is all THAT impressive. (By the sexy plane, I mean the Raptor )

[Motherland]

I think 'slightly less hideous' would be more appropriate

[AWwrgwy]

It's not really a budget cut if they are spending the money somewhere else, is it?  Building fewer of one fighter in order to build more of another is a cut?  Only in the sense that they are cutting production.  

I see no mention of a decrease in spending.  Matter of fact, instead of increasing spending, they propose to spend more on systems better suited to what is needed now.  Who'd a thunk it?  Making choices instead of unchecked government spending, on whatever they are spending on.


Ohhh Noez!!  They're cutting the... uhh... OK, they're cutting my stuff....


wrongway



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It's not really a budget cut if they are spending the money somewhere else, is it?  Building fewer of one fighter in order to build more of another is a cut?  Only in the sense that they are cutting production.  

Thats why I said cuts, not cut.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Yes we will change from X-wing production for massive amounts of tie fighters that will swarm the enemy by squads of three's!, muwahahaha..-cough-



-Shrugs-

[AWwrgwy]

Thats why I said cuts, not cut.

But you also said Budget[/i].

When are they taking away our guns again?


wrongway

[Motherland]

Yes we will change from X-wing production for massive amounts of tie fighters that will swarm the enemy by squads of three's!, muwahahaha..-cough-



-Shrugs-

Worked in WWII.

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But you also said Budget[/i].

When are they taking away our guns again?


wrongway

So you wouldn't classify the reduction in F-22's as a budget cut?  I never stated anywhere that the amount of money in the defense budget was being reduced, what I said was that they were making cuts from the defense budget.

[AWwrgwy]

So you wouldn't classify the reduction in F-22's as a budget cut?  I never stated anywhere that the amount of money in the defense budget was being reduced, what I said was that they were making cuts from the defense budget.

But they're not making cuts from the Defense Budget (that I can see).  They are cutting F-22 production and increasing F-35 production. 

They are taking money from A and spending it on B, C, and D.  I see no decrease in money.  Are F-35s cheaper to build?

The Defence Budget money isn't going anywhere.  It's still ALL in the Defence budget. 

I think we're arguing semantics here.  Some F-22s are are proposed to be cut from the Defence budget. true.  But there is no spending cut.  So, the Defence budget is not being cut, allegedly.

Please note, this is not political but grammatical.   

 

wrongway

What they are NOT doing, as far as I can tell, is increasing the defence budget.