They do invaluable work for you.
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.
Maybe you don't know about the Washington Monument Defense. That's what agencies do when somebody wants to do a whack job on agencies per se ~ they say "Hey, we'll have to close the Washington Monument and the National Pars". As usual Congress backs off.
The POST used that defense ~ imagining Conservatives could be concerned about military systems analysts being the first ones fired in an Obama expense cutting exercise.
I bet even they thought it was funny.
That you didn't get it is highly disturbing.