Sunday, February 24, 2013

Sequestraton might set new base line.



The Pentagon is beyond politicized now.

Everyone knows it, no one admits it...

But a silver lining out of this sequestration mess might be that a wedge is finally driven between the Pentagon and the White House (as it should be).  Especially when all this chicken little talk finally gets tallied up.

Check this out...via the Washington Times...
In an 11-page briefing sent to Congress and obtained by The Washington Times, the Navy said it will be forced to “shut down at various intervals” the USS John C. Stennis, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS Ronald Reagan and the Roosevelt.
The Navy’s active carrier fleet already has been reduced to 10 vessels because of the retirement of the USS Enterprise in November. Removing more carriers from action will leave the Navy unable to surge a large number of ships and strike fighters to a hot spot like the Persian Gulf.
Suspending all operations on four carriers means the Navy also would close four of its nine carrier air wings — the F-18s that project power overseas.
What happens if the Navy follows through and shuts down 4 carriers.  Let's say they shut down 4 carriers at the same time.

What happens when Congress...Extreme Left Wing Democrats and Fiscally Minded Right Wing Republicans...look out on the world and realizes that nothing went boom.

What happens when a bean counter says that this shutdown is helping to solve the nations debt or fund government entitlements?

In essence, the Navy is about to put a huge amount of cash on the table in an attempt to show all the damage that sequester might impose on the nation and the nation's leaders might say thank you, may we have some more.

What if Congressional leaders look at the sequestration-"nated" military and consider that the new baseline?

What then?