We are 29 days from the Sequester that guts our military (every Joint Chiefs general officer used that word, not me), and I am supposed to place hope and joy in the fact that the the GOP that caved in 2011 on the Sequester, caved on the Fiscal Cliff, caved on the debt ceiling extension, but schemed to steal an additional $10 Billion from the DoD budget two weeks ago to give to New Jersey beach house repair is going to outmaneuver the Democrats - this time?
Let me tell what the military community is facing. Military families will suffer under these cuts, so will veterans, no what rhetorical BS is being shoveled around that it won't. Defense firms are going to lay off piles of highly educated and motivated workers, and we may not be able to recover from this brain drain for decades. Up to 800,000 patriotic, middle class DoD employees will face an immediate 20% pay cut under draconian furloughs (that save a whopping $5 billion). How would you like a 20% pay cut for the rest of the year? No? Neither do they. Operations and Maintenance will be gutted in all services, probably by 35%.
Our flipping government spends $11 Billion per day, most of it on unconstitutional crappola, and the GOP is applauding these Defense cuts?
Give me a break.
Notice the liberals are not asking for more from Defense for once in many, many decades because they see the cuts the military is making. And they know their own time is coming.
How would you like a 20% pay cut for the rest of the year?
I have had more than that cut from me over the last several years while Gov't has grown. This is only one of the reasons I feel it's time to make the hard decisions in order to get the private sector moving again. The faster the private sector grows, the faster the loss of jobs on the Gov't side (including military) can be absorbed by new job creation.