http://washingtonindependent.com/28724/defense-spending-as-stimulus-part-trois National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://washingtonindependent.com/28724/defense-spending-as-stimulus-part-trois/comment-page-1#comment-36731 Jason Fri, 15 May 2009 21:18:06 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=28724#comment-36731 Bottom line, if you want students to study science, you have to create jobs for them after graduation. Defense spending creates very good jobs, right here in the U.S. , for students of all sorts of scientific backgrounds. As a plus, defense spending creates manufacturing jobs that are less likely to be outsourced due to security issues. (I work for a major aerospace/ defense contractor, and i can tell you that ALL of the subcontractors on my program are small, U.S. manufacturing companies.) Finally, ModerateWarrior is dead on. Just my 2 cents. Bottom line, if you want students to study science, you have to create jobs for them after graduation. Defense spending creates very good jobs, right here in the U.S. , for students of all sorts of scientific backgrounds. As a plus, defense spending creates manufacturing jobs that are less likely to be outsourced due to security issues. (I work for a major aerospace/ defense contractor, and i can tell you that ALL of the subcontractors on my program are small, U.S. manufacturing companies.) Finally, ModerateWarrior is dead on. Just my 2 cents.

]]> http://washingtonindependent.com/28724/defense-spending-as-stimulus-part-trois/comment-page-1#comment-30708 Jason Fri, 15 May 2009 14:18:06 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=28724#comment-30708 Bottom line, if you want students to study science, you have to create jobs for them after graduation. Defense spending creates very good jobs, right here in the U.S. , for students of all sorts of scientific backgrounds. As a plus, defense spending creates manufacturing jobs that are less likely to be outsourced due to security issues. (I work for a major aerospace/ defense contractor, and i can tell you that ALL of the subcontractors on my program are small, U.S. manufacturing companies.) Finally, ModerateWarrior is dead on. Just my 2 cents. Bottom line, if you want students to study science, you have to create jobs for them after graduation. Defense spending creates very good jobs, right here in the U.S. , for students of all sorts of scientific backgrounds. As a plus, defense spending creates manufacturing jobs that are less likely to be outsourced due to security issues. (I work for a major aerospace/ defense contractor, and i can tell you that ALL of the subcontractors on my program are small, U.S. manufacturing companies.) Finally, ModerateWarrior is dead on. Just my 2 cents.

]]> http://washingtonindependent.com/28724/defense-spending-as-stimulus-part-trois/comment-page-1#comment-17694 ModerateWarrior Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:58:27 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=28724#comment-17694 As a retired AF officer who has served/fought in action against everything from large enemy AF's to terrorists to flying cover for peacekeeping as well as the UN, I must waive the TOTAL BS flag! F-22s are as necessary as nuke subs, HUMVEEs and bullet-proof vests. Stop engaging in "THIS WAR" myopia!! We MUST INVEST in modernizing all of the military to defend us against danger in the entire spectrum of potential conflict. The F-22 and its brother the F-35 will deter and if necessary win a conventional conflict and prevent those conflicts from going nuclear. Your anti-defense-jobs argument is BS too. The workers are exercising their 1st Amendment right to petition the government . Our nation's AF needs 60-200 more F-22s and over 30 campaign studies validate that requirement. Spew your anti-military venom if you will, but the uniformed military needs the new equipment (AF and Navy) since they sacrificed much of that modernization to fight the current 2 wars. Let's not repeat the huge mistakes of the post-VietNam era. As a retired AF officer who has served/fought in action against everything from large enemy AF's to terrorists to flying cover for peacekeeping as well as the UN, I must waive the TOTAL BS flag! F-22s are as necessary as nuke subs, HUMVEEs and bullet-proof vests. Stop engaging in “THIS WAR” myopia!! We MUST INVEST in modernizing all of the military to defend us against danger in the entire spectrum of potential conflict. The F-22 and its brother the F-35 will deter and if necessary win a conventional conflict and prevent those conflicts from going nuclear. Your anti-defense-jobs argument is BS too. The workers are exercising their 1st Amendment right to petition the government . Our nation's AF needs 60-200 more F-22s and over 30 campaign studies validate that requirement. Spew your anti-military venom if you will, but the uniformed military needs the new equipment (AF and Navy) since they sacrificed much of that modernization to fight the current 2 wars. Let's not repeat the huge mistakes of the post-VietNam era.

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