[SkyPilot]

Read the comments that accompany the story. Outrageous.

[driftdiver]

we’re so screwed

[driftdiver]

People here on FR think this is a good thing.

[gotribe]

Good. Best way to have a government fall is to lose the military. The faster this puss-filled, corrupt dictatorship falls, the better.

[csmusaret]

I can tell you from personal experience that the Army needs to stand down for 6 months or so every couple of years for “people Maintenance”.

[CodeToad]

“But breaking faith with our military this way is obscene.”

Sorry, but a $650+ billion military budget that we current have isn’t even remotely necessary for the defense of this nation. They are crying over losing roughly $50 billion of that, still leaving $600 billion for the military.

[Flintlock]

We coulda had a country.......

Instead, we have ObamaCommieland and his welfare state.

SOON, WE WILL HAVE NEITHER.

[familyop]

Continue big spending for public school teachers, Internet spying, county master plans, idle building inspectors and the Violence Against Women Act, and generally, for enforcement against American freedoms, or our military forces will stay on strike! [Little irony and humor there.]

Who is proposing to cut spending for the new civilian fascism and increase needing spending for our defense? No one. Our nation is morally bankrupt. [Serious and sincere there.]

The Fed is buying up bonds. China still owns a large portion of them. When will the bond collapse commence? The partial repudiations of debt and “haircuts” against bond investors, as are happening in southern Europe?

[celmak]

Does anyone know the percentage change of the budget if the sequester takes effect over one year/ten years? If so, please give the amount before and after the baseline of the budget is given for those years so we can see the whole picture. Frankly, I came up with less then 10% difference; and that's after the baseline is implemented!