[Owen]

It will be good to see these cuts, however you want to define cut.

It will be good to see MORE cuts, some to DoD, upcoming in the March 27 CR resolution renewal.

Yeah, it would be nice if we saw that the next sequence of cuts all went to Medicaid, Welfare, Dept of Education blah blah BUT THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. We Must Have Cuts. If we have to take some tax increases and military cuts to get them, then too bad.

The number one threat to the US is financial, not military.

In fact, I think I’ll just repeat that and urge everyone swaggering about as a skypilot patriot to do the same thing maybe 50X per day — and I’m a former USAF officer.

The number one threat to the US is financial, not military.

[SkyPilot]

I am a former USAF officer as well.

You acknowledge that entitlements are breaking the back of this nation, and a direct consequence of that is that it is murdering the US military.

The financial harm you speak of is just beginning.

Industry: sequestration would cut 2 million American jobs

As a former officer, you should know that the military generates billions of dollars in research, manufacturing, and foreign military sales. The American public has benefited untold trillions from the investment made in the Department of Defense, not to mention our world geopolitical standing, which is directly tied to our world economic standing.

To harm military budget is to only increase the financial pain (to speak nothing of what it does to security and the immorality of harming those who have given the most for this nation).

By year's end, troops will be unable to respond to crises, Pentagon says

I don't know who you are, but if you did serve, you should be ashamed of yourself. Those who are left behind are being decimated by the current "leaders" in Washington DC, of both parties.

I can only surmise you have your own selfish interests to look out for, but you should reexamine your conscious.