Obama’s new Pentagon strategy: strip benefits and buy more weapons
Pensions and health care plans for US troops will be drastically
reduced under a new budget presented by US President Barack Obama on
Thursday. Not all aspects of the DoD will be annihilated, however.
The DoD will ditch medical benefits for troops but continue to spend on its expensive arsenal of doom.
President
Obama joined Defense Secretary Leon Panetta from the Pentagon early
Thursday in a rare public address from the two to talk changes made to
the ledger in regards to the operation of the US military. As the US
begins to scale back on foreign operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the
Obama administration is finding less of a need for the servicemen and
women that have been on the battlefronts for the last decade. In order
to cut costs, the new budget will thus eliminate positions from the
armed forces and initiate changes to the pension and health care plans
for military vets..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-panetta-pentagon-strategy-251/
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2 comments:
aba eh kaya siguro ang higpit/lupit na ng bayan ng kalbong agila sa mamamayan nito ay dahil its military has reached the point that it needs less troops. ano yan, may robot.soldier technology in the works na kayo? kaya hindi na rin masyadong kailangang pangalagaan ang mga sundalo nito....o napala ninyo sa pagsuporta sa dmnyo ninyong imperyalistang pamahalaan.
"The DoD will ditch medical benefits for troops but continue to spend on its expensive arsenal of doom.
"President Obama joined Defense Secretary Leon Panetta from the Pentagon early Thursday in a rare public address from the two to talk changes made to the ledger in regards to the operation of the US military. As the US begins to scale back on foreign operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration is finding less of a need for the servicemen and women that have been on the battlefronts for the last decade. In order to cut costs, the new budget will thus eliminate positions from the armed forces and initiate changes to the pension and health care plans for military vets."
actually, meron na ngang robotic soldiers na pinaghahandaan ang kalbong agila. tingnan n'yo ito:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-OIP-dLTYg
Robot soldiers taking over?
www.youtube.com
"The US military is designing and testing technology that could lead to science fiction robotic soldiers taking to the battlefields of future wars, yet the co..."
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