However the 13 staff members for the third assistant deputy administrator for kindergarten sex education in the Department of Education all still are "flying".

What the Navy should be doing is evaluating their return on investment. Do the Blue Angels aid recruitment as much as the TV commercials or are they just entertainment. Are there any other better opportunities for cost savings?

Ha! Or did Obama just say, "Screw ´em, cut the Blue Angels!"

I´d rather see them doing precision flying over Afghanistan or Pakistan. These flying team stunt shows have been used primarily as recruiting tools. They´ve become an anachronism no matter how "cool" they are. This is the very last generation of manned combat aircraft.

LLJ, USAF ret.

The fact that Naval and Marine Aviator training in Pensacola is basically onhold is more significant.

My daughter is scheduled to go to Pensacola for Coast Guard pilot training - but since the CG is under Homeland Security - they continue to train. But, the Marine and Navy pilot training is being cut Way Back.

this is Obama´s strategy--to cut the activities that will aggravate the people the most and blame it on Republicans.

The Blue Angels are beautiful and amazing. However, the cost is around 40 million dollars a year! But first cancel all free private flights for our corrupt politicians.

My son´s hiring as an air traffic controller is at risk (for the second time) after six years in the Navy he´s coming up on the age limit to be hired. Thanks a bunch obama.

The Blue Angels are a traditional American icon whose value to traditional America exceeds that of the entire State Department, a seething bed of islamocentric commy coddlers. Calling into question the Blue Angels´ value against a $3T+ budget, one tenth of one percent of which is spent on enumerated government responsibilities, is very progressive.

We´ll manage.

When we do our budgeting, we determine "must haves" and "nice ifs". These performances are "nice ifs".

They could stop Holder´s personal use of Homeland security jets for his transportation. Just because it is convenient does not justify the millions spent.

The Republicans should have a host of examples ready when Obama starts trying to hurt the people. "Look, Obama traded the Blue Angels for _________ (an example of rediculus waste or giveaway $$ that was not cut)! But the Stupid Party will sit on their hands and trot out Boehnet and Cantor to spout some gibberish the masses can´t understand.

Cut Moochelle´s flying trips around the country and you could save the Blue Angels.

Yeah.. But all the blue angels fans can watch zippy burn twice as much fuel flying around the country in AF1.

Obie is hitting our hot buttons. Don´t let him win with this tactic.

Our wonderful and spectacular Blue Angels based here in NW Florida will weather this storm. When we hear or see them overhead, we don´t mind the noise. As most of us acknowledge and are proud to say......That´s the sound of freedom.

They stand for and help preserve liberty here in this great country, and others. What more noble purpose is there? They are highly-skilled pilots who have served (and will again) all over the world in critical areas and missions. Their brief time as Blue Angels is merely a stop along the way in their careers. God bless them all.

Extortion plain and simple. Obvious, blatant and aggressive. With the aid of the media.

Don´t fold. Hammer it home that Obama is choosing these cuts over other things. Like the two NLRB workers who do no government work but make over $100,000 per year each. How about targeting them and keeping the Blue Angels?

We are getting ready to find out what programs Obama hates the most. Its no surprise he would want to get rid of the Blue Angels. The represent some of the best our military has to offer.

I know the parents of one of the Blue Angels. The qualifying, the intense (and ongoing) training are quite a challenge. I´m sorry funds are being cut back.

Don´t the Blue Angels make money by doing shows?

Sounds as if some conservatives wish they´d gotten off the couch and actually voted, instead of whining about mittens or wasting their votes on a losertarian. This is what you get when you decide to make some sort of "statement´ by not getting behind the nominee because he isn´t the 2nd coming of Reagan.

This is almost too easy. Too obvious. "Hit those Red Staters right where (we know) it hurts."

Be strong. Don´t let them play our emotions. These are times for hard choices. We cannot go all wobbly.

Geez, folks, I sincerely doubt Obama personally said to drop the Blue Angels. In austerity times, you get rid of the "nice to haves" as one poster said. The Blue Angels are a nice to have, and , they don´t generate money. They don´t get anything from ticket proceeds to airshows.

I agree the GOP should be running to the microphones wiith lists of idiocies such as Obamaphones, welfare cheaters, the Scooter Store, etc, but neither Boehner nor Cantor is a leader. We need conservative LEADERS.

On the other hand, as a retired military officer, I tire of conservatives who screechabout any cutbacks in DoD. They are as ripe for cutbacks as ANY other agency of the federal government. It´s all about our spending problem, and they are part of that machine.

All that said, manned combat aircraft pilots are becoming the new buggy whip makers.

And #20 is right. There is no way that Mitt Romney would have pulled a stunt like Obie is now up to. Not ever.

And yet there were smarty pants here who planted their feet and decided that they would not vote for him. So they effectively voted for Obie. Great reasoning. Thanks. For nothing.

Sigh, 20 and 23 blaming Conservatives for all of this. Moderates are so full of themselves.

Maybe if we sold the F-16´s Zippy wants to give free to Egypt´s muzzy junta to a country that doesn´t hate us we´d make enough money to keep the Blue Angels flying.

Grounding The United States Navy/Marine Corps´s Royal Ambassadors To The World, The Blue Angels?

Need any further evidence ladies and gentlemen, that the Obama Administration is an "official enemy" of The American People, our traditions and way of life?

Grounding the finest pilots alive.

This government is just too foolish for me to conceive. I do not understand Americans for electing Obama. I am a Texan. We are different. I do not understand how blindly foolish the U.S. citizens are and can still survive the day. I think we, Texas, should not leave the Union but, rather, should follow our manifest destiny and CONQUER AMERICA. It is past time.

Don´t Mess with Fat Albert (the Blue Angels´ C-130 support a/c flown by USMC aviators.)

FTA: "The Blue Angels program began in 1946 and costs about $40 million a year."

Cost of free cell phones for welfare leaches? $2.2 billion in 2012 alone.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323511804578296001368122888.html

Why we need Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds both is a mystery to me.

Hmmm, do we really need a hotshot team flying around doing tricks at $50,000/flying hour?

Wow, is this more hurt than we´re willing to endure? Some sound like their free phones were threatened. If it´s not essential, it´s cuttable. Otherwise we´re only negotiating our pork and theirs.

Grounding the finest pilits alive? We paid huge bucks to train these guys to shoot down the enemy and blow up other peoples stuff. What that has to do with barnstorming at county fairs is beyond me.