What Does $1 Billion Buy For The U.S. Air Force

What $1 Billion Buys In the Air Force -- Mackenzie Eaglen, Weekly Standard

As the sequester sinks in and starts to hit the U.S. military, many have focused on the impact of unpaid furlough days for civilians, air shows grounded, and fireworks foregone.

ntuitively, many know that sequestration’s burden on those in uniform is large. But, so too, they say, is the defense budget. Sure, the first $487 billion in defense cuts under the Budget Control Act was tough, but the chiefs and leadership said it could be done. Not ideal, certainly, but bearable.

Then came sequestration on March 1 and an additional half-trillion dollars in defense cuts over the remainder of the decade. Ouch. This might hurt … but still, our defense budget is the world’s biggest and, at a half-trillion without war spending, we can probably absorb this too.

But, as the late Senator Everett Dirksen once said, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”

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My Comment: Those days of having billion here and a billion there are long gone.