Hagel announces deep cuts at the top

Is this how the Republican Party ends? Stop and think about something. They have always been known as the party that cares more about the military and now it seems they have already lost the contractors with all these cuts. (They sure managed to do something as soon as the FAA was making their flights harder to get home.) It looks as if they just may lose the military brass as well.

The GOP controls the House. They also have hogtied the Dems in the Senate forcing the super majority rule over every bill. Do they really think everyone in the military and contractors have been blind to this? After all the stunt of sequester has hit everyone involved with the military. They have shown they really don't care about average people and now this may be the end of them as a party. Hopefully level headed Republicans will return to take over the offices of these fools and remember they have a duty to the whole country since they are paid by the whole country, as well as the people in their districts.

Hagel announces deep cuts at the top, but follow-through often elusive
Stars and Stripes
By Chris Carroll
Published: July 17, 2013

WASHINGTON — With combat winding down, troop numbers dropping and budget uncertainty mounting, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s announcement Tuesday that he plans to cut thousands of positions in Pentagon headquarters staffs may have made a splash, but defense experts said it will take a steady exercise of will on Hagel’s part to ensure it happens.

During a visit to Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., Hagel said he would direct staffing cuts of 20 percent in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff and in the headquarters of the service branches.

The cuts will be implemented in the 2015-2019 budgets, and could save up to $2 billion, Pentagon press secretary George Little said. Cuts of that magnitude aren’t an answer to sequestration cuts that could quash $500 billion in planned Pentagon spending over a decade. Little said the reduction plan — which arose from the a recent strategy and management review ordered by Hagel — will happen even if Congress passes a budget that de-triggers sequestration.

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