well while president biden's budget is
25
bigger than president trump's last
budget defense spending would increase
by less than 2 percent now that's not
quite enough
to keep up with inflation at current
levels so is this enough to ward off our
increasingly belligerent
adversaries most notably china joining
us now is joey jones fox news
contributor host of
usa inc on fox nation about which more
in a moment and it says retired but we
should know that's former
marine bomb technician good to see you
as staff sergeant semper fi to you
happy memorial day weekend as we begin
this so do you think president biden is
shortchanging
the military on his budget
you know i'm not an economist but i
would say that if you can't keep up with
inflation that's not an increase
at all i think you know more than the
overall amount of money is where is it
going and what are we focusing on that's
the questions i have as someone who
served
i think after this past year the past
two years we've learned that
intelligence gathering and cyber
security are probably our weakest
links and i would like to see a lot of
effort going there
but the problem with the military and
what really bothers me is that they're
touting
research and development in this budget
and part of the problem
with the american system is that when we
change presidents every four years
research and development can become this
endless cycle i mean when i was in the
marine corps i learned multiple radio
platforms but we couldn't update
you know guns and missiles that we had
from 40 years ago
and so the problem with our defense
spending is there's too much opportunity
to pad the pork for the alexandria area
four and five letter you know defense
organizations without actually
researching and developing new
strategies and technologies
you know i think donald trump understood
that
i mean he did take a much closer look i
think than most
certainly most professional politicians
like joe biden did in terms of
understanding that bureaucracies like
department of defense have a tendency to
get stuck in these ruts and not think
outside of the box and not put the money
where it's to most use he he did
increase the budget dramatically and and
many people are glad that he did because
he they felt a little
safer under his watch but but he did
seem to understand what you're talking
about a little better than joe biden
because joe biden after all is a
creature of washington right
listen i'll listen to joe biden speak
today i'm not confident he understands
the the
details of a lot of things that he's
briefed on and makes decisions on
and that's not to take a cheap shot i
just don't think that's where his mind i
don't think he's a detail-oriented
politician he he pontificates that's
what he does he bloviates and
says nice things the thing about trump
is that he actually enjoyed
business deals he touted some of the
ones that he was able to save
for our military and i appreciate that
but here's the deal nobody's going to
argue that the taliban and al-qaeda
were severely underfunded when it comes
to our military
but if our goal was to squash them out
and their goal was to survive
they won that war so i think more than
anything is why are you fighting
and what's the culture you're fighting
with because they were fighting to
survive
whether they're right or wrong of course
i fought against them i'm not giving
them any credit
but the point is if we have a military
that's so focused on things like
identity and fairness and feeling good
about yourself
and being involved rather than the hard
knocks culture that it takes now i'm not
saying anyone should be
oppressed or discriminated against but i
don't think that can be the only
conversation you're having for a
prolonged amount of time and still have
a warrior culture
so i think that our biggest enemy more
than our budget is are we investing in
the people that are going to fight
in the right way by the way there are a
couple of big ticket items though
in the military that need updating one
of them is our is our naval force i mean
people many people don't know that the
marines are part of the u.s navy
and and in fact there's there's uh uh
one big
well well okay i know
i'm stepping on some tender territory
here with the marines
but the bottom line is we just we just
had this carrier that was moved out of
the
the pacific in order to cover our what
what we're doing in the middle east
now we don't have any carrier at all in
the pacific
isn't it necessary uh for some spending
on big ticket items that may not be
possible with this budget
well absolutely but i'll even go back to
my original point about personnel
the navy has a severe leadership debacle
they have a problem
look at the headlines over the past 10
years with the navy just
literally getting caught with its pants
down in so many different areas where
they just do not have leadership and do
not have a process
the navy has a lot of problems there
it's it's a
long storied and tradition service the
marine corps and the navy are two
branches within the department of the
navy
and so yes we are connecting that way
and some of those problems
make their way into the marine corps at
the end of the day we need to invest in
leadership
and we need to invest in culture that's
oriented towards getting a war
one rather than making people feel good
about themselves
we feel good about ourselves when we win
a war that's what that's that's what
makes us feel good
by the way i i thank you because uh my
son in the marines is going to call me
after the show and say boy
joey got it right you got it dead wrong
in terms of the relationship with the
navy
uh by the way president biden was was
talking in front of the military
earlier today we're going to show a
little clip from that but as as you
mentioned before when when president
trump talked before the military you got
a sense
that he he he said what he meant and he
backed it up with his actions in terms
of
what he was doing around the world uh
whereas you don't
sense the same confidence with but we i
i just gotta move on because i want to
give your
your clip some air time here from from
your show usa inc
let me just play a little bit of that
and get back to you roll tape
i looked at your instagram page and just
your art and the way you use
some geometric shapes it's like it's not
like anything i have
i appreciate that i work really hard to
be original and in everything that i
construct for you
and yeah be myself being a combat
veteran nine years
army aviation well i know that you've
kind of mocked something up with the
with like the different things that i
told you i was looking for i want a
second amendment tattoo that
really talks about the liberty and the
history in the country
and really mankind not just the politics
of it
did you get it did you get the tat
i did i did i can't show it to you but
not just because i have a jacket on but
because you have to watch the series and
on the last
part of the last episode we unveiled
that tattoo but the series is about the
history of tattoos
in america how they intertwine with
american culture and military culture
by the way i don't want to shade your
show at all or the subject matter but i
got to tell you my son's been in the
marines for 20 years
never got a tattoo his mother's very
proud of that by the way
uh but not too late don't tell him that
i hope he's not watching right now
thank you joey hey have a wonderful
memorial day weekend all right i
appreciate it
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right now joey jones thank you sir good
to see you