Good post. No intention whatsoever on the government’s part of trying to make real sustained cuts where they make sense. Panetta’s pentagon only seeks to cause maximum pain, until they get their candy back.
A year or so ago they asked each branch of the mil for suggestions to save money. They got thousands of ideas. They implemented a few of them but we did not get any feed back. My idea would have saved over $50K per year that we are still wasting.