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Originally Posted by Azure
Funny how everyone isn't up in arms over that because it is like you said taking jobs away from 92,000 people. Imagine if the rest of the government had to cut 92,000 jobs.
Either way, this is why you have to constantly focus on balancing the budget. Then you don't have to worry about cutting 92,000 people every year. Instead you're only firing a few thousand, which is much easier for the economy to handle.
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I agree with what your saying, these are convienient cuts. Lets be honest, the Military isn't unionized, they don't have massive pensions and early retirement packages in place.
There are probably better places to cut if you look at the government and military as one entity.
Its likely that the RIF is going to go after enforced early retirements first and hopefully redundant senior officer postings.
I mean at the end of the day, while the cuts will effect American readiness, the American Military would still be far ahead of any other country.
I also noticed that Obama has opened up Oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico again to reduce reliance on foreign Oil, guess he doesn't care much about the environmental impact in that Gulf anymore.