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March 20, 2012 — .......[Gene] “Sperling [director of the White House National Economic Council] said he was also “disappointed” that Ryan’s plan proposes relieving the Defense Department from the Budget Control Act’s threat of sequestration just months after negotiations produced what both parties had agreed was an “offensive” threat of “mutually assured destruction.” Such a move, he said, would reverse for ideological reasons the one area of bipartisan consensus that is in the legislation and thus “actually create an incentive not to compromise.”......
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I trust the Washington Post as far as I can throw you.
Company paper in a Company town.
Question is, why do you buy into their view of reality.
LOL
Or maybe even ROFLMAO.
If WaPo wants to trot out that cloud of crap as an argument, I've got a prize example of Gummint Employee expertise in action on my resume:
I was working on the B-1, setting up testing on the early model crew ejection system parachutes and got to give a GS something-or-other posing as Expert In All Things a short lecture on the limited value of compressive strain measurements in parachute harness.
What I actually said was, "Just how do you suggest we're supposed to push a damn rope so we can get that compression?", but I was having a bad day and had not yet fully transitioned from Navy E-6 to civilian Engineer.
The best the average GS can do to promote National Security (as well as just about everything else you can name) is Stand By and Keep Your Mouth Shut Tight while the grownups take care of the deal.
Otherwise, all they've historically done is F*** up everything they touch.
I searched the entire article, and didn't see the word "military" or "weapons". What article were you reading?
In fact, the article says Ryan didn't call for ANYBODY to be fired. That's what "attrition" means -- they simply don't hire new people when the current workers retire or quit.