RE: Do you not fathom these facts, or are you just being disingenuous?
I appreciate this fact that you mentioned. However, let me ask you this, SHOULD THE MILITARY BE TOTALLY EXEMPT FROM CUTS?
Let’s say that Operations and Maintenance should not be cut, are you telling me that unlike other government programs, there is no FAT and WASTE going on in Defense?
To answer the question, no, the DoD should not be exempt. In fact, the DoD is the only Federal agency that has been cut in real dollars in the past several years. Not "baseline budget" gimmick cuts either - real cuts. Thousands of jobs were lost, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen are going to be thrown out of the service that they scarificed and sometimes literally bled for.
That in itself is an obscenity.
Can the DoD be cut even more. Yes, but not this way. Not with Sequestration. It is the worst possible approach for the military.
Moreover, it is a Constitutional institution. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Food Stamps, TANF (all of which are exempt from Sequestration) are not Constitutional.
I understand the anger towards the government. Every time a obese TSA agent with the IQ of 65 touches a member of my family at an airport, I weep for what this country has become.
However, there are also the noble. There are DoD teachers, nurses, logisticians, machinists, electricians, dog handlers, engineers, and truck drivers who are loyal, patriotic, hard working Americans who are hurt by this process.
Read this - it is true.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2992388/posts?page=40#40
Every time you mock and scoff, you mock and scoff the likes of her. She isn't ficticious.
Think about it more before you post.