I can’t speak for all govt. agencies, but DoD is already running on a skeleton crew. Defense has been RIFfed, force-shaped, and BRAC’d to death. Most workcenters that had 20 people running things 10-15 years ago have 3-4 people today. Couple that with no budget and you have a serious problem. Zero dumped a trillion dollars on his fair-haired-boy agencies while DoD continues to get told, “There’s no money, there’s no money...”
So I guess I’m one of the ones caterwauling about downsizing. It’s because I give a fat crap about the defense of our nation and realize that freedom isn’t free and defense isn’t cheap. Do you know what we get when we run the military on the cheap? We get what we have now: our superiority in military jets and naval ships is gone, the Russians have caught up and the Chinese are hot on the trail. We’ve gutted our nuclear forces while China is building up radically. Russia and China are flying shiny new jets while our best are 15-20 years old. Our premier bomber, the B-52, is 60 years old.
China is planning a war with us. At the rate we’re going, they will murder us when we’re finally weak enough. Wanna live in a concentration camp while your country is carved up and gutted by communists? Keep right on supporting this crap.
Oh, I’d cut nothing from DoD. Defense work should be, after all, the first and best mission of our government. But I think if you did a little trimming (with a big ol’ trimmer) in the Departments of Energy, Education, Interior, Commerce, etc. etc., you’d reduce the monolith considerably. And nobody’d probably notice the difference.
When people talk about federal workers, they are not complaining about the DOD. They are talking about the dept of education, the EPA, IRS and other useless agencies that suck up dollars and do nothing for the country.
I don’t disagree with your premise but China is caught in a vise. They have to make a move before 2025, or they are simply, done.
Really don’t think any HERE are targeting Mil or DOD. Would think that most if not all FR support our Military and also recognize the terrible way the dems treat our defenders.
If you’re trying to defend the rest of the FedGov lackies, you are in the wrong place, my friend.
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