I disagree with him. I think my recent experiences in Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan, I think first and foremost, you need to get the standards correct and make sure we don't have the loss in the quality of our combat…

Look, Anderson, the big concern we should have right now, you know, we kicked the can on sequestration. The sequestration is going to hit in March. That means 200,000 army soldiers and Marines are going to be put out.

I see this kind of, how do you put together a train? And too often what we do, we put a caboose before the engine.

So what I am trying to understand, what exactly are you looking at being done?

Do we have the capability and capacity to do that?

And then where is the potential of mission creep and escalation?

If we increase taxes just on those top two tax brackets, you are only talking about $85 billion of new revenue per year.

I did vote for the Budget Control Act of 2011. I did not believe that the Super Committee nor this thing about sequester was a good idea.

Did we meet the intent of this--of this act? And I mean, then why are we here?

The law didn't say anything about contact information. And that is why I used that metaphor.

If a commander says to a unit and the sergeant major first sergeant 'We want the unit to go down to the motor pool, and we want to do PMCS on our vehicles, take care of our vehicles today.' But instead if the unit goes off to the barracks…