leaner, maeaner, smarter 21st military. susan, tough last word. i agree with jimmy. we do have a 1980s military. we do need to become more flexible and we need to realize what our troops are going to be used for. we re not going to go take over another country. so we have to be careful on how we spend our dollars and hopefully do it with more counterintelligence. i guess what makes me hesitate a little bit is knowing that there are defense contracts in every district of every electoral region well, that s why they ll never get cut as much as they say, because whatever they propose rhetoric is wonderful, i just wonder when it comes down to it in the back room, who s getting well like karen talked about. there s no question there s going to be a fight, but i think what we re talking about is essentially what they re trying to do, which is, let s modernize. and you know what, it s for us as we the people to stand up and say, we want this. which is what we want to s
randomly order, as karen said, 40 of these, 70 of those, and 55 of these. do you get the sense that this particular proposal of the president is drifting in the sestakian direction? sestakian, i love that. i don t know if it s something is that sestak would like or not like. but what i can say is we are here in 2012, i can t believe that, but we have a military for the 1980s. and it s a bloated. it doesn t mean it s not a great military. it s a great military. we have the best military in the world. but i don t want to see us building, you know, so many bombers or planes, et cetera, etc. i would rather us build the computers that do those things, where, a, our troops aren t in harm s way nearly as much, and it doesn t cost as much, and c, i would like very much for a modernized military to bring everybody else in. because keep in mind, we sell billions of dollars of equipment to countries across the world. it s a huge part of our economy. i don t want to cut that off. but i think we
challenges we re dealing with today. like we saw in the mission to go get osama bin laden, where counter intelligence played a very critical role. so one of the things they stressed was, you know, maybe we don t need 12 of these and 15 of those. maybe we need five of these and four of those. and that s the kind of system that they re thinking about. the one piece that makes me a little nervous is when they do talk a little bit about approachably reducing benefits for veterans. that s just something that i hope does not happen. it s interesting, junas you know, jimmy, joe sestak has been through this show a few times and a lot of other places, arguing that the military is imperiling us not just in excess of the spending, but the excess of spending and the blasting and the bombing around the world. he s an advocate of hot spotting, if you will, in the military apparatus, which is, use the counterintelligence, over allocate to the very specific issues, and don t just
gingrich all making some stops. take a gander. you have an opportunity to move this country. you have an opportunity to change the direction. and doing what new hampshires do, which is really test their presidential candidates. there s a huge difference between a reagan conservative and a moderate. this president has been on the attack, has been on the attack and has been a job killer. well, we re not seeing the level of ad spending around the rhetoric in new hampshire as we saw in iowa, because an auction is only an auction if there s more than one person to bid for. and because this is one s basically a lot for romney, who s going to lose their loot there? the man leads the polls a full 23 percentage points ahead of his closest rival in the state. ron paul, remarkable, continues to hold up with the strength of his narrative, despite obvious blemishes, to say the least, around the issues of racism. he is very strong with the audiences on the issues of banking and the militar
of these. do you get the sense that this particular proposal of the president is drifting in the sestakian direction? sestakian, i love that. i don t know if it s something is that sestak would like or not like. but what i can say is we are here in 2012, i can t believe that, but we have a military for the 1980s. and it s a bloated. it doesn t mean it s not a great military. it s a great military. we have the best military in the world. but i don t want to see us building, you know, so many bombers or planes, et cetera, etc. i would rather us build the computers that do those things, where, a, our troops aren t in harm s way nearly as much, and it doesn t cost as much, and c, i would like very much for a modernized military to bring everybody else in. because keep in mind, we sell billions of dollars of equipment to countries across the world. it s a huge part of our economy. i don t want to cut that off. but i think we should have a leaner, maeaner, smarter 21st