"Democrats and Defense Budgets"


Sharing the blame and avoiding the solution
Winslow T. Wheeler almost gets it. He points out that the Democrats are just as guilty of the high defense budgets as the Republicans.

Following this lead, Congress, with the Democrats as full partners, raids the manpower and "readiness" accounts to pay for what it loves most to add to defense budgets: pork costing billions and billions. The result is that as the shrinking and aging proceeds, the force is becoming less and less ready to fight.

These trends flourish under the Pentagon's managerial incompetence, which is exposed for all to see by the Office of Management and Budget's quarterly rating of all major federal agencies on five measures of governance. The most recent "Executive Branch Management Scorecard" ranked the Defense Department "unsatisfactory," the worst designation, in three of the five measures; in the other two, the best it could do was "mixed results." Of the 25 agencies rated by the OMB, only Veterans Affairs ranked worse. Meanwhile, the Government Accountability Office has identified more areas of concern in the Defense Department than in any other Cabinet-level department in its important "High Risk" reports about poor management.

So close.

It's not a Republican problem. It's not a Democrat problem.

It's a government problem.

And neither party can be trusted.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - May 23, 2006 at 09:21 PM  Tag


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