Pentagon Is Getting Ready For Sequestration
Pentagon Prepares for Deep Budget Cuts -- Voice of America
PENTAGON — The part of the U.S. government set to be hurt the most if U.S. lawmakers and the White House don't reach a budget deal is the Defense Department, which is set to take about half the budget cuts. Discussions have been going on at the Pentagon on where the U.S. military will have to make nearly 10 percent reductions totaling $500 billion in the next decade.
The cuts are set to be massive, $50 billion a year for 10 years, and so are the consequences.
That's the warning from officials including the nation's top military officer, General Martin Dempsey.
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My Comment: If sequestration hits .... it would make the 2013 defense bill moot. And the consequences .... hard to imagine. But at this moment the only thing that is going through my mind is that while I do understand the political reasons on why the Democrats agreed to sequestration last year .... what I do not understand is why did the Republicans agreed to it also .... why did they believe that the Democrats would not put them in the position that they find themselves in today. In short .... what the hell were they thinking?
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