Posted on 03/01/2013 9:39:54 AM PST by Saint X
The ten percent sequestration cuts across the Department of Defense budget will increase wait times at Arlington National Cemetery, a cemetery spokesperson told USNI News on Thursday.
Due to the cuts funerals will drop from 31 interments a day to 24, or about 160 less funerals a month, according to preliminary estimates from the cemetery
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How about instead of this, we don’t give any foreign aid to Muslim countries?
Looks like Obama has the Navy in on the act too. The sky is falling! If this happens, its because the administration is cutting here intentionally to inflict pain. We can cut $85 billion out of $3.7 trillion without anyone feeling anything other than a minor inconvenience.
I have a close friend, a retired AF two-star,who died the first week of October and is finally being buried on March 14th......unreal! I’m going up for it and just hate that his family is going through the grief yet again.....4 months after he died!
I bet not one bureaucrat in such vital(sic) agencies as the Department of Agriculture will get so much as a 10 minute furlough, while Obama will cut air traffic controllers and the US military. What Obama is doing is criminal and puts the whole country at risk so he can play his political games and raise taxes.
I know some Early Head Start “teachers” who are going to a “conference” at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in June. The gubmint is picking up the entire tab, except for alcohol. The priorities of the 0bama regime make me puke.
/johnny
We buried my father (WW2, Korea and 2 tours Vietnam) at ANC in 2005. That was one of the most organized functions I’ve ever seen. It started exactly on time, ended exactly on time.
I have a healthy disregard for "our" government. It is now run by the parasites and their hosts.
As long as Sequestration doesn't stop the Free-Obama-Phone program,
Obama's America will survive these mean-spirited republican budget cuts!
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