Can't we all just get along while we continue spending trillions we don't have and have no hope of ever getting? With the Sequester, we are not addressing Entitlement spending. The Sequester only cover 37% of all spending (discretionary). Only a small portion of mandatory spending (Medicare reimbursements to providers) is covered under sequestration, and it is a very small portion.
Basically, the US military was raped fiscally so that Entitlements (including Social Security, Medicaid, Food Stamps, TANF, etc) would not have to pay dime.
And, Entitlements are exploding. 10,000 people join the retirement ranks (non working Americans) every single day. The number of people on SS Disability is nearly 9 million! One if five households is on Food Stamps. One in seven Americans gets a EBT Food Stamp card.
NONE of this is addressed by the Sequester.
The Sequester punishes the military, however, greatly.
“Basically, the US military was raped fiscally so that Entitlements (including Social Security, Medicaid, Food Stamps, TANF, etc) would not have to pay dime.”
In about 20 years there will be no U.S. military because of the burdens of ‘entitlement’ spending and the interest on existing debt. So of course the U.S. military is going to get raped and its going to get a whole lot worse because most of the military consist of patriots who understand that their division is not nor can it ever be a permenet fixture.
Thoses on welfare don’t care as a group, and instead of spending their days traing for or engaging in the occupation of war. Many of their days are spent idling and politically organizing for democrats & more welfare.
So yes the U.S. Military will go down and this is only the beginning. They will in time cease to exist. In a weird way i suppose that is a good thing, for if they did act & think like leftist parasites they would stage a coup and overthrow the Federal Government. (much as military’s have done around the world and thou-out history)