That is an absolute lie.
I didn't know I lived in North Korea, yet. How can someone spread such blatant disinformation?
Defense spending is about to be gutted (and every single member of the Joint Chiefs has used that word). The Sequester cuts have to come from Operations and Maintenance because Guard, Reserve, and Active Duty personnel accounts cannot be touched by order of Obama who was afraid of the political fallout. So O&M will decrease by 35%.
Defense spending dropped 22.1% last quarter, the lowest in 40 years, and it helped drag GDP into negative territory for the first time since 2009.
Sequestration will result in furloughs, layoffs, cancelled contracts, deferred maintenance, and plant closings.
On the "morality" side, this nation will be fully funding give away programs, Food Stamps, unemployment checks for 99 weeks to people who don't work (to the tune of $200 Billion just this year), but we are taking 50% of the Sequestration cuts from 17% of the budget that is a Constitutional piece of government (whereas Medicare, Social Security, EITC, and Medicaid are not).
People are trying to "spin" this issue when the facts are clear. That is lying, and that is wrong.
“Defense spending is about to be gutted (and every single member of the Joint Chiefs has used that word)”
here we go again.
Just because a bureaucrat-general says “gutted” doesn’t make it so.
A real general would get the job done - focus spending on war-fighting capability only.
But we don’t have “real” generals anymore we have bureaucrat-generals who defend “their” budgets over providing as effective a constitutionally mandated defense of country as is achievable with budgets provided.
The JCS has no business using political language like “gutted” Their job is to tell us what we get for the money provided.