[cripplecreek]

Talk about getting rid of defense contractors and that seldom spoken of entitlement class goes rabid.

[17th Miss Regt]

It makes sense that, if the promised pain of sequestration turned out to be largely illusory, the defense industry would have to try doubly hard to protect their place at the government trough.

It also makes sense that other programs can be cut without dire effects. A lot of social programs could take a haircut and survive. And they are by far the largest portion of the budget.

As well, Congress can redefine the word entitlement to make it much more exclusive. Don't have to change the rules, just the assumptions on which the rules are made.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think the defense contractors are living in something of a fantasy if they think not, the gravy train, but the gravy Mississippi, is going to keep flowing forever.

The big lesson of sequestration was that, no matter how bitter and spiteful Obama was about cutbacks, the government is so nonsensically bloated that it was liposuction of a teaspoon of fat, hardly noticeable.

So the question back to those defense contractors, is how many gallons of pure fat are going to have to be sucked out before we get anywhere near the meat?

Time to go back to working for your bread, and producing on time and on budget. And from the government side, once a blueprint for a project is sent to the contractor, it is finalized: NO MORE CHANGES. Sorry if this means that 200 naval officers don’t get to claim they were part of the project, because they made some change to the design, on their resumes.

[Hoodat]

Just like giving a junkie more heroin.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I agree with this, on one condition:

America needs to make more.

We are outsourcing everything. Bring back US manufacturing.

Now.

We cannot lead the world, by buying everything from China.

That just won’t work.

[upchuck]

Restore budget cuts?

Hell no! We need MORE cuts. Real cuts, not cuts in spending growth.

[GailA]

UH I have some answers for you STOP redoing the commissary every 6 months, and the Exchange, bring in lower priced products. WE do not have $200 for a Vera Wang wallet, nor do our Troops. Do not put in any more of those dozens of $7K speed bumps in 5 mph parking lots (Commissary and Exchange). We do not need more monuments either. Nor do we need 11 admirals when 1 will do, which is all we had when Millington, TN was a training base, now its BUPERS.

And when you don’t spend all the funds at the end of the year RETURN them don’t waste them on those speed bumps. Or putting up another unneeded monument,

[Myrddin]

A "modest cut"...I'll take 1/8" inch of your carotid artery. It's so small nobody will notice.