Cut their asses! What are you defending!? you can’t even defend an embassy with a full militaay complement!
Why do I need 800,000 paper pushers!
Not all of them are "paper pushers." Sheesh, talk about a generalization and a lack of knowledge of what the DoD does.
The medical staff that worked on me when I had an eye injury that I incurred while overseas were all DoD civilian, and I will never forget them. Many of those kind of people are still getting furloughed.
So are shipyard workers, maintainers of aircraft, engineers, and cops.
They perform a Constitutional and complex mission alongside the military that is a lot more important than the other useless Federal agencies, most of whom are NOT furloughing (State Dept, Dept of Education, Housing and Urban Development, because the military takes the great majority of the Sequester cuts (thanks to our GOP masters for agreeing to that one).
There is waste, like any other organization, but there is helluva lotta good these people do. Forty four percent of DoD civilians are veterans themselves; and the gratitude of American people towards the military these days is in the sewer.
Oh, by the way, it was the military that tried to defend those people and were stopped cold by our cowardly politicians, and it was military veterans who died trying.