[LeoWindhorse]

Cut Congress’s pay , and the pay for all the ‘staffers’ and ‘interns’ in D.C. and the surrounding bureaucratic megalopolis , NOT the pay of our Troops or the nation defense budget .

WE ARE AT WAR ( lest some forget )

[pepsionice]

You basically start with North Korea...sign a peace treaty, and vacate South Korea within three years. You turn around to Japan, and let them know that you are vacating their country. Same deal with all of NATO. You bring all the troops back to US shores...base them around the fifty states, and save around thirty percent of the entire budget you have today. You can even take the troops and base them along the border of Mexico...and cut loose half of the border patrol guys.

[Sir Napsalot]

I can just imagine the salivating from the communist (strike that) commie sympathizer for the chance to wreck havoc at our military ......

[ex-snook]

Not across the board. Keep dollars that defend this country. Cut world policeman funds for defending other countries. I know this would disrupt someone’s gravy train but American grandmas would approve.

[dfwgator]

Getting out of that Libyan cluster f#@$ would be a good start.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Maybe Leon ought to talk to the idiots like Nancy Pelosi, and tell his fellow communists in the federal government that cutting defense is a mistake, and to find cuts in domestic programs instead...with no tax increases!

Don't try to scaremonger us, you jerk. We know the danger we're facing--and YOUR PARTY is near the top of the list. Terrorist enabling panty waists.

[grobdriver]

if lawmakers fail to find an additional $1.5 trillion

Finding it isn't the problem.
It's getting the democrats to agree to the (real) cut, is the problem.

[grobdriver]

Hey, Leon - here's a cut for you!

Disgraced Still-Congressman Wu Can Draw Nearly $900,000 In Pension Benefits

[Gritty]

To late, Leon. Our effete, stupid "leaders" already agreed to this abomination. They put our heads on the chopping block along with yours.

Suck it up and die like a man - like the rest of us are going to have to do soon...

[elpadre]

If the Pentagon would rid themselves of all their civilian employees with Yale and Harvard degrees, plus their many contracted consultants from the same schools, they would cut expenses tremendously and become a much more efficient operation. And that's a fact!!

[TLI]

How about some "across the board" EPA cuts?

Perhaps some "across the board" TSA cuts?

"Across the board" EEOC cuts?

"Across the board" BATFEces cuts?

"Across the board" Department of Agriculture cuts?

Department of Education?

Department of Health and Human Services?

Department of Housing and Urban Development?

Department of Labor?

African Development Foundation?

Federal Reserve System?

National Railroad Passenger Corporation?

Yea, we never hear about any "across the board cuts" in any of the agencies representing the Parasitic Branch of the Fed-gov.

Same old tattered commie-dem playbook crap. "We will be forced to cut police and firefighters!"

Failure to enact further deficit-reduction measures, he said, might trigger “dangerous, across-the-board” cuts to defense.

They know damn well they can screw the military because the military doesn't vote for communists.

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[cherry]

"passage of the debt-reduction deal"

there is no debt reduction....another SCM talking points making it seem like we're all frugal now......BS!

[SECURE AMERICA]

I attended a funeral for a soldier KILLED in the WAR in Afghanistan yesterday.
It is a shame that our Government does not remember we are at WAR!
What a bunch of assclowns............

[montanajoe]

Putting mandatory across the board cuts to the Defense budget in the so called “compromise” surpasses the stupidity of failing to consider the debt ceiling on its own.

This idea is going to come back to hurt Defense big time...

[PieterCasparzen]

IMHO...

Leon knows he works for a new world order stooge, he’s just stating the obvious for cya.

Unfortunately, defense cuts will come, it’s gonna be like Carter. Wait until next year when the $2T credit limit increase for Congress is drying up.

Our military will get the job done either way, it’s a sin, though.

It will have to be rebuilt on the next President’s watch.

Things are going to get really hairy in the next two years, so - I have not a clue how it all shakes out.

Every country is in serious economic trouble, we have a usurper in the WH, whew.

Just gotta hang in there until 2013 and keep working on getting new congresscritters and wh.

Reminds me what a boss once said when a meeting ended that nobody liked the results of: Well, everybody deal.

[Valin]

The reply’s to this article are amazing...and not in a good way.