Their budget for 2013 was $13 BILLION..!
Their cut here means a decrease of 1/33, or 3%…!
Imagine that at your company you had acted as a tool of political terror:
How many people here think their pay would be cut by 3%…?
Let’s say that it was found the US military willingly made itself available to ONE party as a tool of political terror against the Democratic party, and that the likely outcome of that service was that a Republican had been elected at the last minute in a squeeker election:
Maybe the punishment would be NO General getting fired..?
Maybe the punishment would be NO General going to the brig..?
Maybe the punishment would be a budget cut of 3%...?
How many people here think that would play out?
Imagine further that in the course of the DOD investigation the new SecDef went up to Capitol Hill and said before the cameras that 7 hard-disks had crashed, and so further inquiry was IMPOSSIBLE and “these things happen”:
What would be the Democratic reaction..?