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Blue Angels Can Drop The Ax Of The Federal Budget?
WASHINGTON - Blue Angels kick off their annual Seafair on Saturday, a thrilling spectacle of hordes of the future of the Navy enlisted fascinating - and a huge fuel to burn the taxpayer a penny.
The agreement on the debt ceiling that President Obama signed Tuesday in law has ushered in an era of budget cuts, which could reduce military spending by an additional U.S. $ 1,000 billion over the next ten years. The bill requires the Pentagon to trim $ 350 billion on its own. Another $ 750 000 000 000 cuts would come in automatically if Congress fails to agree on how to reduce the federal budget $ 1.5 billion at the end of December.
This is the kind of lean budget that could invite a second look at the Blue Angels, who after all is essentially a campaign of $ 40 million a year ad air.
Certainly no one on Capitol Hill offers the land of the Blue Angels Thunderbirds and other Air Force flight demonstration squadron. However, they may get caught in the crosshairs of a Congress that has been aimed sponsored by the Ministry of Defense of the NASCAR races and spending on military bands balloon.
Blue Angels, and similar programs "are going more and more," said Laura Peterson, national security, a senior policy analyst for Common Sense taxpayers, non-profit group watchdog in Washington, DC
The Blue Angels are paid at the Navy recruiting and advertising budget. Therefore, the pilots did not perform the basic functions of national security, said Peterson.
In a country where the project ended nearly 40 years, the Blue Angels aerobatic and 700 mph serve mobile recruiting stations.
The Navy requested $ 38700000 for the Blue Angels in 2012 for the year e
Home last month approved $ 649 billion Pentagon budget for next year, will pay $ 119 billion wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bill is pending in the Senate.
For Seafair, the Navy has a crew of 72 in the city. Most were taken by the Marines aboard a Hercules transport plane C-130 Pensacola, Florida, said Lt. Katie Kelly, a spokesman for the Blue Angels.
Navy pilots flew seven Boeing F/A-18 Hornet - the old models, which have suffered a lot of landings on aircraft carriers tailhooks arrested - from Florida to Seattle.
Seafair organizers billed the Navy usual fare of $ 6000 per day of the performance, or U.S. $ 12 000 total (toll free call to Seattle and Bellevue during practice Thursday and Friday).
This is a nominal fee only covers a fraction of the cost of glasses theft, said Lt. John flexible, spokesman for Naval Air Training in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Analysis of the cost of flexibility does not seem to Seafair, but he also said, housing fuel and per diem, and other expenses. Based on the presentation of about 70 a year, the actual cost of each Blue Angel and the appearance of being hit by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Even the economy-minded 112 Congress began to chisel away at once the costs of routine.
Rep. Betty McCollum, Minnesota Democrat will change in the Defense Authorization Bill to cut Pentagon spending at NASCAR events. McCollum says that the army alone has spent 12 million NASCAR and drag racing in 2011. The year before, the National Guard shelled out $ 20 million to sponsor the Nascar star Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jeff Gordon.
McCollum has also proposed to withdraw $ 125 million in military bands, leaving the musicians with an annual budget of $ 200 million.
Rep. Norm Dicks of Bremerton, the top Democrat in the House Appropriations Committee and a champion of Defense, voted for the two cuts. House Republicans helped kill the action of NASCAR, the change in military band awaits an uncertain fate in the Senate.
George Behan, chief Dicks' staff, said the cuts in military spending is imminent several times larger than anyone imagined before tightening the brass at the Pentagon - or by Congress.
Behan said the Blue Angels are popular and play an important role.
"Can we afford it? This will be the question," said Behan.
Bill Harper, McCollum's chief of staff, said his staff discussed the Blue Angels and their expensive aerial maneuvers.
"We are entering an era of defense (other budgets) when it comes to essential activities that are not extra," said Harper.
Certainly no one on Capitol Hill offers the land of the Blue Angels Thunderbirds and other Air Force flight demonstration squadron. However, they may get caught in the crosshairs of a Congress that has been aimed sponsored by the Ministry of Defense of the NASCAR races and spending on military bands balloon.
The Blue Angels are paid at the Navy recruiting and advertising budget. Therefore, the pilots did not perform the basic functions of national security, said Peterson.
In a country where the project ended nearly 40 years, the Blue Angels aerobatic and 700 mph serve mobile recruiting stations.
Home last month approved $ 649 billion Pentagon budget for next year, will pay $ 119 billion wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bill is pending in the Senate.
For Seafair, the Navy has a crew of 72 in the city. Most were taken by the Marines aboard a Hercules transport plane C-130 Pensacola, Florida, said Lt. Katie Kelly, a spokesman for the Blue Angels.
Navy pilots flew seven Boeing F/A-18 Hornet - the old models, which have suffered a lot of landings on aircraft carriers tailhooks arrested - from Florida to Seattle.
This is a nominal fee only covers a fraction of the cost of glasses theft, said Lt. John flexible, spokesman for Naval Air Training in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Analysis of the cost of flexibility does not seem to Seafair, but he also said, housing fuel and per diem, and other expenses. Based on the presentation of about 70 a year, the actual cost of each Blue Angel and the appearance of being hit by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Rep. Betty McCollum, Minnesota Democrat will change in the Defense Authorization Bill to cut Pentagon spending at NASCAR events. McCollum says that the army alone has spent 12 million NASCAR and drag racing in 2011. The year before, the National Guard shelled out $ 20 million to sponsor the Nascar star Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jeff Gordon.
McCollum has also proposed to withdraw $ 125 million in military bands, leaving the musicians with an annual budget of $ 200 million.
George Behan, chief Dicks' staff, said the cuts in military spending is imminent several times larger than anyone imagined before tightening the brass at the Pentagon - or by Congress.
"Can we afford it? This will be the question," said Behan.
Bill Harper, McCollum's chief of staff, said his staff discussed the Blue Angels and their expensive aerial maneuvers.
"We are entering an era of defense (other budgets) when it comes to essential activities that are not extra," said Harper.
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