
More lies…big ones.
Defense contractors launch campaign to end military spending cuts
Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2011
Seeking to whip up public support for whatโs expected to be a hard-fought budget battle in Congress, a group of defense contractors launched a lobbying campaign urging an end to cuts in military spending.
The campaign, named Second to None, was introduced by the Aerospace Industries Assn. trade group Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington. The group, which represents manufacturers and suppliers of aircraft, space systems and engines, warned of potential job losses and national security risks.
โWhile we do have a fancy logo, this campaign will not be your typical, glitzy, short term inside the Beltway blitz of advertising followed by deafening silence after one piece of legislation or another is finalized,โ said Marion Blakey, chief executive of the association. โThis will be a sustained effort, in states, cities and towns, as well as in Washington, to caution the American people and our leaders of risks associated with cutting defense further.โ
According to the association, aerospace and defense supports 1 million direct jobs in the U.S. and affects another 2.9 million indirect jobs.
Phi Beta Iota:ย The defense contractors are not being honest.ย As Winslow Wheeler and others have documented, most of the defense dollars go into overhead and out-sourcing.ย Just as it is costing us $50 million per Taliban in a body bag, here these maliciously deception people are suggesting that the $1 trillion a year for defense and homeland “security” will protect one million jobs.ย Do the math–at a time when 22% of workers are unemployed, with more on the way once the federal government starts taking cuts, this is not just idiocy, it is treason.ย We NEED to cut defense, homeland “security,” and secret intelligence SHARPLY–while providing all those cut with a year’s termination pay–to achieve the savings necessary to “reset” the economy including full salary training for every unemployed person in America.
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Marcus Aurelius: US at Permanent โWarโ + War RECAP
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Winslow Wheeler: Defense Budget Hysteria
Winslow Wheeler: Defense Cuts, Defense Flim-Flam
Winslow Wheeler: Analysis of US Bases Abroad
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Cost of War: Obama and Dr. Gates Both Lieโฆ.
DoD 2012 Appropriations: Earmarks & Moreโฆ.
Winslow Wheeler: What Gates Did NOT Doโฆ
DOT&E Documents and Tony Capaccio Story
DoD Inflation Fraud Costs Taxpayers Billions More
Bob Gates: Flat Out Liar or Just Feeble? + RECAP
Defense and the DeficitโBusting the Defense Bubble, Ending Defense Entitlement
Reference: Mr. Smith is Dead by Winslow Wheeler
Right-Sizing the US MilitaryโDoug Macgregor
Pentagon Pathology: Follow the Money
Tom Christie on Failure of Acquisition Reform
Graphic: US DoD Budget 1948-2011
Reference: The Pentagon Labyrinth
Journal: Debt, Defense, and the Diem Moment in AF
CounterPunch on Defense & Economy
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Journal: Dumbest Weapons Money Can Buyโฆ
Journal: Politics of FearโSpending on National Insecurity
Journal: A Tale of Two Flying Pigs
Review (Guest): The Pentagon Labyrinth
Review: Grand Theft PentagonโTales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror
Review: Wastrels of DefenseโHow Congress Sabotages U.S. Security