"Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane,
driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology.
They do not fear the United States
for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles
and software programs it produces.
They respect only the firepower of our tanks,
planes and helicopter gunships."
President Ronald Reagan
He noted that a coming hiring freeze would disproportionately affect veterans, who make up 44 percent of the department’s civilian workforce. Layoffs would hit a significant portion of 46,000 temporary employees; more than $10 billion in funding -- mostly to contractors and small businesses -- would vanish. The Air Force, for example, plans to scale back facilities maintenance by about 50 percent, affecting 189 projects at 55 installations in 26 states, he said.
As of March 1, the services will begin canceling fleet maintenance work for the third and fourth quarters of the fiscal year, affecting 25 ships and 470 aircraft, he said. What will be put on hold are “contracts we intend to enter, such as multiyear contracts,” Carter said. The industrial base, particularly small businesses vital to the supply chain and to innovation, he said, won’t have the capital to stay in business. “All of the hard work our managers did for taxpayers to get a good deal for the government all goes down the drain,” Carter added.
Army Gen. Raymond Odierno told lawmakers he has cut 3,100 temporary and term employees from the workforce and ordered an immediate departmentwide hiring freeze. The Army has initiated planning to furlough up to 251,000 civilians for one day a week for 22 weeks. The service also is preparing to cancel depot maintenance in the third and fourth quarters, which would eliminate an estimated 5,000 temporary, term, contractor and permanent jobs. “We will reduce Army purchase orders with 3,000 companies,” of which 1,100 could face bankruptcy, he said.
“We are reducing institutional training across the Army. This will result in a backlog across our education,” Odierno added, noting that sequestration affects everything, including veterans suicide prevention programs.
Not a lot of happy news here.
That said congress had better not short sheet our guys overseas.
I’m so sick of these f’n games. Obama set this up and now he’s going to save us....somehow...
I’m a vet, but from my experience cutting out some “necessary spending” might include a brand golf course for some General Officers stationed overseas.
I’m a vet, but from my experience cutting out some “necessary spending” might include a brand golf course for some General Officers stationed overseas.
At this point, I would welcome some intervention of this traitorous administration by some patriots in the specops community.
LMBO!!
Ubama has his propaganda machinery running full tilt.
The DC scumbags can slash spending elsewhere and fund defense if that’s what they want to do.
But they cannot - - yet again - - raise taxes or “revenues”, period.
Your move, Ubama, you African communist piece of sh**.
Hmmm...They made an agreement that if they didn’t pass a budget, sequestration would take affect...Then they refused to agree on a budget regardless...
Sounds like a plan to me...
The Pentagon “chiefs” are in this bind because a foreign born communist plant is usurping power and using that power to destroy OUR Country, yet these same “ chiefs” scramble to kiss the kenyan’s ass while pledging to fire on American citizens, should the mood strike Hussein!
If the brass has had months to prepare and they are now whining about being unprepared, they don’t deserve the leadership positions they occupy.
Fire them all...
Suck it up. Do what’s right. Pay, house, feed the troops and cut out the BS. Start closing down foreign bases that are nothing more than outposts of America...Europe, for starters.
Knock off the crap. We are all in this together, and Zero and 0bamunists MUST own this nightmare...every minute of it and every penny of it.