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When do you think they should cut defense and by how much? Can’t a few billion here and there add up to 50 billion? It is pretty myopic to think otherwise. Defense is very myopic, we don’t need billion dollar nonprofits like MITRE full of useless twits. You said in another thread we need airbases in Europe and elsewhere. Does that require 80,000 personnel in Europe and over $3B a year? Your whining is endless but your solutions are sparse.

You seem to have a real, personal vendetta against the MITRE Corporation. I worked with a few of them back in the 1980's. Not particularly useful, some of the were. And yes, I agree - vastly overpaid on that contract. They were sort of "Uber-Contractors" in that they thought of themselves as contractors, but better than DoD civilians.

Cut them some? Sure. Why not. But Sequestration is an across-the-board meat ax that cuts into (primarily) O&M funds for the military.

Guess what? During this go-around of Sequestration (and we get to look forward to 10 years of this mess), the contractors make out much, much better than the military and DoD civilians. The DoD civilians will get furloughed, the contractors will fare much, much better.

We do need airbases in Europe. Yes, it is expensive. We spend $3B a day on liberal garbage in this country. For the strategic advantage and operational capability they provide this nation during crisis and wartime, that is worth every penny. I am sorry you don't feel this way, but it is the truth.