I agree with you that we need to adequately fund our Defense Department and that you can’t cut and rehire DoD workers like you can other workers. But we have a real problem with spending. The Democrats are not agreeing to 3% cuts in other departments. They have refused to engage on entitlement reform. Their only answer is a massive tax hike that will cripple the economy. $1 trillion + deficits each year are a grave national threat that has to be dealt with. With the Democrats in power and the media covering for them, there is no way to cut $85 billion with sensible entitlement reforms and cuts in other areas. So we are left with this. It is better that continuing on the way we have been going.
We sent them thousands of ideas of where to cut costs. They picked one or two. Cutting hours looks good on paper and is the easiest to implement.
Actually cutting costs takes some brains and balls which no one above the local management level seems to have. Just look at how much was wasted buy green fuel for the Navy.