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To: Girlene
Question. Who chooses/chose where the cuts will be made?

The head of the Executive Branch--Obama. I am sure he delegates most of it to the agency heads who are Presidential appointees. They are constrained to a certain degree because the cuts must be made across the board to various account buckets.

I am most upset about how the Pentagon has politicized this. I am not in favor of deep military cuts, but given how the Pentagon is playing hardball politics, I say let the cuts happen and then we can address them next fiscal year.

77 posted on 02/24/2013 11:10:02 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

Thanks. I just don’t understand why they couldn’t have been a bit more creative in what was cut. It seems to have been totally politicized to make the cuts as “painful” as they can, and to the most people.


81 posted on 02/24/2013 12:10:07 PM PST by Girlene
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