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Enough of this misinformation on this website. I used to think the Democrats were stupid. It seems to apply to Republicans as well.

Sequestration is a dagger to the Department of Defense.

It is reeling from a $487 Billion cut that began in 2011.

Sequestration EXEMPTS entitlements, which are the real cause of our debt and deficit.

Sequestration take 13.5% (in the middle of a Fiscal Year) from the DoD, which cannot touch military pay or most procurement dollars, and will have to eviscerate Operations and Maintenance by 30-40% in just 6 months. We have become Rome. We feed the Bread and Circus.

Do you understand?

You are not telling the truth. Bryon York has a column on this today about the cuts amount to a reduction in the growth of the Pentagon's budget.

Here is an excerpt from York's column today which you can read on FR:

But even for the Pentagon, the cuts are only to the rate of growth for the defense budget in coming years. They are not actual cuts that make spending decline. In a February publication, “The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023,” the Congressional Budget Office (summary here, full report here) outlines the increases in defense spending that will happen even with the various spending caps and sequestration cuts that are currently law. Table 1-5 (Outlays) on page 30 outlines projected defense spending in the coming decade. For 2014, the figure is $593 billion. For 2015, it is $597 billion. For 2016, $611 billion. For 2017, $619 billion. For 2018, $628 billion. For 2019, $648 billion. For 2020, $663 billion. For 2021, $679 billion. For 2022, $702 billion. And for 2023, $714 billion.

By the way, Duncan Hunter is a vet and he says the Pentagon is purposefully cutting necessary spending in order to protect the Pentagon’s overall budget. Is he a liar? Or is he stupid. Try responding to the specifics of the article instead of posting pictures of soldiers hugging their kids.

>>It is reeling from a $487 Billion cut that began in 2011.

Baloney.

Sequestration is a dagger to the Department of Defense.
It is reeling from a $487 Billion cut that began in 2011.

It isn't reeling from squat.....
With enactment of the sixth FY2011 Continuing Resolution through March 18, 2011, (H.J.Res. 48/P.L. 112-6) Congress has approved a total of $1.283 trillion for military operations, base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans’ health care for the three operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks: Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) Afghanistan and other counter terror operations; Operation Noble Eagle (ONE), providing enhanced security at military bases; and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). This estimate assumes that the current CR level continues through the rest of the year and that agencies allocate reductions proportionately. Of this $1.283 trillion total, CRS estimates that Iraq will receive about $806 billion (63%), OEF $444 billion (35%) and enhanced base security about $29 billion (2%), with about $5 billion that CRS cannot allocate (1/2%). About 94% of the funds are for DOD, 5% for foreign aid programs and diplomatic operations, and 1% for medical care for veterans.

It sounds to me like the funds for the Iraq operations are finally being pulled, and some little bureaucrat doesn't like the fact that his kingdom is falling apart.
We have a defense budget that is 6x higher than the 2nd place country (China). There is no reason for this. We aren't the worlds policeman.