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4. The Pentagon has only itself to blame. Remember during the Bush Admin when the Pentagon

Reply to mia (Original post)

Sat Jul 28, 2012, 08:21 PM

Jul 2012

"lost" almost 3 trillion dollars - lost, as in "haven't a clue where it went". Remember the 8 billion in cash on pallets in Iraq that just "disappeared". Politicians at the time said it wasn't being watched closely and it was "pilfered". PILFERED??? Give me a break. And nobody questioned it. The attitude was "shit happens". If Republicans were truly conservative they would have been yelling their heads off, but since it was Repugs in office - not a word. Of course I can't totally blame them cause the Dems didn't say a word either. I have no idea how many people work in the Pentagon but I'll bet the fat could be trimmed just a little. You can bet a whole lot of those civilians have accounts in the Cayman's also.

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Pentagon may lay off thousands if defense spending cuts go through [View all] mia Jul 2012 OP

Oh thousands to be laid off, YADA YADA YADA. truedelphi Jul 2012 #1

Good. 99Forever Jul 2012 #2

Here is a chart that plainly, crisply shows the cost to Fed Government of truedelphi Jul 2012 #3

Shift those tens of thousands of jobs over to those that will mia Jul 2012 #5

Seems like common sense to me RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 #6

What the hell does that actually mean? hack89 Jul 2012 #25

It's actually worse than that Major Nikon Jul 2012 #16

That is very true. Some pacifists who have analyzed the budget truedelphi Jul 2012 #27

The Pentagon has only itself to blame. Remember during the Bush Admin when the Pentagon Booster Jul 2012 #4

Question is.... Xolodno Jul 2012 #7

"At the end of the day, people would rather pay out a percent or two in taxes and have a job..." mia Jul 2012 #8

Doesn't matter. Igel Jul 2012 #10

Gee maybe we better cut funding for pensions and SS and Medicare to help out the MIC. L0oniX Jul 2012 #9

Congressional Pay Raises Are Automatic Nativo13 Jul 2012 #17

And they would be able to get jobs with the money that's saved being lunatica Jul 2012 #11

That would defeat the entire purpose of this. tammywammy Jul 2012 #13

I work for a defense contractor. tammywammy Jul 2012 #12

On the defense side this will hit civil servants, support contractors, and defense contractors ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #14

Plus, it also will hit the vendors used as well tammywammy Jul 2012 #19

One thing will happen before the elections...the WARN notices will go out ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #21

Thanks for the clarification. mia Jul 2012 #24

threats.... spanone Jul 2012 #15

America is bankrupt just like the British Empire lovuian Jul 2012 #18

Good riddance. nt Comrade_McKenzie Jul 2012 #20

Not to mention thousands of UNION manufacturing & production private defense jobs. OneTenthofOnePercent Jul 2012 #22

This is not true. Government doesn't create jobs, as the GOP always reminds us DisgustipatedinCA Jul 2012 #23

We didn't win the arms race, the Soviets just lost first.... Scuba Jul 2012 #26