16 ordspråk av Winslow Wheeler
Winslow Wheeler
 [In that kind of pressure cooker,] you become risk-averse, ... The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security. |
| Earmarks undergo virtually no review, making it impossible to distinguish between truly meritorious projects and those that are pure pork. |
| He has to convince me about this every time it comes up. |
| If it's beyond the next election cycle, we'll worry about it next year after we get ourselves elected. |
| It is true that programs are going to be hunting for dollars. And it is true there are more programs than dollars. But the civilian leaders are doing nothing to bring the budget in line. Even though we are hearing a lot of rhetoric from the office of the Defense secretary, we see they are going along with what the services want. It shows who is running the Pentagon. |
| My guess is that you will never hear a peep about this as they debate the bill, ... Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security. |
| That sounds like they're saying we'll save money because we're not at war. There's no justification in the report, so no way for me to check and see if this is as stupid as it sounds. They used it to cut accounts that provided training and rapid equipment acquisition by the Army, among other things. |
| That the DOD appropriations legislation has been stuck at this 2.3 percent suggests a conscious, not a random, pattern. Could it be that the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have settled on a fixed percentage for their pork? |
| The ones that pop up at the last minute at conference are rare. |
| The request might be as high as $100 billion, but that'll be over a two-year split. |
| There are all kinds of ways to address it, but it's hard to eliminate. The problem is fundamental to the nature of the insurgency. |
| There is a big chasm between rhetoric and the budget process. |
| These are the wastrels of defense. |
| These numbers sound astoundingly high. |
| We don't know if the operational tempo is going to go up, down, or stay the same. We don't know what the number will be or what the direction of the trend will be. |
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