[SkyPilot]

Only you and Obama seem to think that this minor reduction in budget to DoD warrants such a hysterical response.

And all five 4-star Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs (I even sent you the PDF link to the actual letter - you ignorned it), and Rep "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Senate Armed Service member Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Sen John McCain (R-AZ), and Rep Jon Runyan (R-NJ), member of the House Armed Services Committe, and anyone else who still has their sanity.

Sequestration will cost 2.14 million jobs, study says

[RFEngineer]

“And all five 4-star Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs (I even sent you the PDF link to the actual letter - you ignorned it), and Rep “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Senate Armed Service member Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Sen John McCain (R-AZ), and Rep Jon Runyan (R-NJ), member of the House Armed Services Committe, and anyone else who still has their sanity.”

Whatever. In the end, the cuts are minor, and the budget for DoD still well exceeds $500B. So these guys can say whatever they wish, but they exhibit the “can’t do” attitude of everyone who depends on government.

What you never answer (and I don’t blame you for ignoring it) is what CAN we do for $500B to defend the country, since a minor reduction results in catastrophe, according to you, Obama, and the JCS?

[Sirius Lee]

And here's an analysis by people who are sober rather than hysterical:

http://www.cato.org/blog/sequestration-will-not-make-united-states-less-safe Even with the sequester our DOD is still spending more than China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea combined.

[palmer]

It’s not “unprecedented” by your the chart you posted until 2018 or 2019. Plenty of time to get serious about real cuts (e.g. Joint Strike Fighter). The whining from the usual suspects in my area has been immense and music to my ears. I could lose my job later this year. But cuts are absolutely necessary because the alternative is losing the economic race to China. Defense work, as currently configured, is a net negative for the economy. Far too much useless crap is being built at incredibly high overhead costs (i.e. paying for useless people).

[fortheDeclaration]

Give me a break!

Republicans should be FOR spending cuts across the board.

What the Gov't doesn't want to do is make decisions on how to spend their money, so they want to take whatever they want and just spend it.

This government needs to be chopped down 90%.