Bad Budget Cuts

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Bad Budget Cuts

The budget cuts being put into effect soon are all wrong. The government should not be putting the cuts on the military the cuts should be on something else. The military needs that money for a number of things. The government is coming up with the plan to cut the military’s money, cut a large sum of soldiers, make it to where the country will not be able to be protected, and puts thousands of soldiers in trouble because of increases in healthcare and decreases in pay.
A plan to cut the military budget has been made and will most likely be put into effect soon. A debt in the United States has been increasing for years so the government thinks the best way to get it to come down some is to make cuts and use the money from the cuts to get rid of the debt. So the military is the first place they look to and the military is the one being squeezed for its money. Although we spend more money on the military then the next ten countries combined does not mean they can just take that money. Congress and the rest of the government is taking money away from the soldiers and putting a heavier burden on their backs. $75 billion will immediately be put into savings because of automatic cuts know as sequestration (Shinkman 2014). Obama has asked for an additional $26 billion in the year of 2015, and another $115 billion from the military in 2016 to 2019 (Kramer 2014). The budget control act reduces defense spending by what number we have now of $487 billion over the next ten years (“Obama Administration”). The budget cut for the military is always the first thing put up it has happened before. The military finds this money important because they need it to maintain weapons and equipment. Military soldiers are being cut as w...

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