THE DOOMSDAY SCENARIO
MichaelConnelly.Jigsy.com
Members of the U.S. Military are calling it
the “Doomsday Scenario” and that is a completely
accurate assessment of what is about to occur on
November 23rd of this year. Unless
something changes in the next two weeks that day
will mark the beginning of the end of the United
States military as the most powerful fighting force
in the world. The end result will be putting our
nation and our people in a position where we will be
unable to effectively defend ourselves against those
who would destroy us.
Dismantling our military has been something
that the far left in this country has been trying to
do for decades, and now with the help of the Obama
administration and Congress they are about to be
successful. It will occur as a result of the ill
advised and unconstitutional legislation agreed to
by Congress in order to avert a failure to raise the
debt ceiling. A super committee of Congress was
appointed made up of six Republicans and six
Democrats from both houses of Congress that was
given the task of finding and agreeing to $1.5
trillion in spending cuts by November 23rd.
If the super committee fails to come to
agreement, then the legislation provides for an
automatic $1.2 trillion in cuts to be made.
Approximately half of this amount will come from the
defense budget. This will be in addition to some
$850 billion in cuts that have already been made to
the defense budget since Obama has taken office.
Some of these cuts have already taken place, or are
scheduled to happen over the next few years. Even
Obama’s choice for Secretary of Defense, Leon
Panetta, has said that these additional cuts
triggered by the super committee’s failure to act
will be devastating to the military and our national
security.
Exactly what will happen to our military? The
strength of the Army and Marine Corps will be
reduced by about 50%. The Air Force will lose two
thirds of its fighters and strategic bombers, while
the Navy will have to mothball a number of ships
including two aircraft carrier groups. The Army,
Marine Corps, and Air Force will be at the smallest
they have been in many years and the Navy will be
smaller than it was prior World War II.
Many military bases will be closed, both at
home and abroad, and the Navy will be barely strong
enough to patrol our own shores, much less make its
presence felt in the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, or
close to China. This is happening at exactly the
same time that China is rapidly increasing its own
military strength including building an increasingly
strong Navy. (This is all eerily similar to the
scenario I laid out in and my 2009 novel, “Amayehli:
A Story of America.”)
In addition to the impact on national
security, we can expect to see large increases in
the unemployment rate. Over the next 10 years
hundreds of thousands of members of the military
will be thrown into an already dwindling job market.
Thousands of civilian employees who work at
soon-to-be closed military bases will also lose
their jobs. The development of new weapons systems
and equipment for the military will virtually cease
as will the upgrading of our current equipment and
weapons. This will undoubtedly put some defense
contractors out of business, and at the very least
cause thousands of additional people to be out of
work. So, with a sagging U.S. economy in a dangerous
world with countries like Iran about to have nuclear
weapons, our military is going to be gutted.
Of course, is not going to stop there.
Veterans are also going to see their benefits cut.
Pensions are going to shrink and many medical
benefits are simply going to go away. At the
beginning of his Presidency, Obama proposed that
members of the military who were wounded in the wars
in Afghanistan or Iraq should pay for their own
private insurance, and thus pay for their own
medical treatment. The outcry from the American
people was so great that the idea was soon dropped,
but now Obama may get his way after all.
If the Doomsday Scenario happens, and it
appears it will, the people who have laid their
lives on the line to defend our country and its
freedom will be punished for their sacrifice. At the
same time there are a large number of people who
will lose nothing. Members of Congress will not have
their salaries or benefits cut, and they will keep
their generous pensions, even if they have served
only one term in office as compared to the minimum
20 years members of the armed services have to serve
to even qualify for a pension.
White House staffers and Obama’s illegally
appointed Czars and their staff members will lose no
pay or benefits, and this is true of most other
Federal employees, but then they will vote to
re-elect Obama, while most military personnel and
families will not. Do you see a pattern here? I
certainly do. By the way, does anyone remember the
proposal that Obama made during his campaign that
there be a Civilian Defense Force formed that would
be as well funded and equipped as the military? If
we have a weak military then such a force will
probably be formed and be under the complete control
of one person, Obama.
There is one chance to stop this disaster. A
committee in the House of Representatives is working
on proposals to stop the Doomsday Scenario from
happening, and it has bi partisan support. Everyone
should write, call, or email their Senators and
Representatives to support this and keep our
military intact. Here is a link to a website that
will help you contact your Congressional
representatives: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/.This
is urgent.