I just read the following and I became so irritated that I had to write something just to blow off steam.
Ponder these things:
"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel informed the Senate Armed Services Committee that if Congress fails to end budget sequestration, DoD could be forced freeze military promotions, suspend recruiting and put a hold on all PCS orders."
MilitaryAdvantage. Military.com
"The number of federal employees grew by 123,000, or 6.2%, under President Obama, according to the White House's Office of Management and Budget." [From CNN, read it HERE]
Total size of the uniformed military services: 1.4 million. Total size of uniformed military in the Army alone - 500k. Total size of the uniformed Marine Corps - 195k. (DoD statistics, see them HERE)
It is absolutely insane to destroy the morale of our uniformed service personnel through measures such as Chuck Hagel is proposing in his statement while at the same time paying the 123,000 NEW hires (above and beyond replacement hires) in the Federal government that have come on board in the last five years. The total growth in Federal hires is equivalent to: almost 10% of the entire uniformed military population, over 20% of the most heavily involved force in the current wars being fought over seas, the US Army, and over 60% of the entire Marine Corps.
These additional bureaucrats are not "tenured"... they should not have protected positions simply because they work for the Federal government. If the choice is between keeping the uniformed population motivated and trained and equipped... then fire them! There would be more than enough money left over and the size of the Federal government would be entirely adequate to do the job.
It did the job without those 120K people before 2008... it can do without them now.
What we cannot do without are trained, motivated military units.
Good grief people... what are you thinking?
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