That destruction is still in full force. Obama managed to launch the genesis of taking over the health care system in this nation as well, which will not only makes us all further slaves to the government, but will result in further economic misery. I know several people who are now on starvation hours because their companies are cutting back hours to avoid the ObamaCare penalties.
But even in this hostile economic climate, companies still had some discretion in how they handled the pain (which government mainly caused). They were, and are, still private companies.
The Dept of Defense is a wholly government "owned" institution. It has its waste, its inefficiencies, its cads, and its heroes.
As far as government agencies, it is the largest, but also the best. Name one other agency that will respond on a moment's notice to national and international acts of war, terror, and disaster on such a scale as to make a difference for our nation and the world?
There isn't one.
That one, noble institution is now under full scale assault.
Myself, I think we are actually in a Depression that is masked by debt and Food Stamps (EBT cards).
If you removed the latter, you would see people lining up outside of soup kitchens in every city as we had in the 1930s. I have worked in our soup kitchens of today - and business is booming. Trust me. I went to our local mall on a Friday night, and 1/3rd of the stores were boarded up and the food court had a handful of people there.
It was simply amazing.
The way out of this is not to destroy 2 million more jobs almost overnight and layoff hundreds of thousands more so we can make a political posture point about "cutting spending" when in reality entitlements are exploding and we won't touch those.
Industry: sequestration would cut 2 million American jobs
My small military retirement will be affected if they revise the Social Security COLA so that is calculated to a new chained CPI. Fine - I will take that sacrifice - as long as there are other reforms to entitlements as well (raising the age of Medicare to 66 or 67 for instance).
But no one in America (or even FR) today is acting rationally. Obama has divided us, and fear seems to be the rule.
You speak truth.