Keep the Base Realignment and Closure Process Alive
Topic: Legislation
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An action alert from the National Taxpayers Union focuses on how the preservation of local pork is harming the nation and armed forces:

While our nation's military planners search for ways to get the most from the hundreds of billions of taxpayers' dollars our nation annually spends on defense, many in Congress and in state and local governments are more concerned with keeping military bases open in their home districts - whether they are a military necessity or not. The Department of Defense estimates that the 2005 BRAC round could yield as much as $6 billion in recurring annual savings. A delay of two years, as currently outlined in the Defense Authorization bill, will cost taxpayers billions of dollars without increasing our level of safety. This is money that could be put to better use improving the quality of life for our men and women in uniform or investing in new, modernized weapons systems.

The alert includes further details, plus an e-mail utility and sample message.