Obama administration struggles to illustrate pain from sequester

[duno]

snip, wrong thread :3

[KingdomBanned]

[QUOTE=King Tiger;39827313]no[/QUOTE]

We're in a recession? We have 15 trillion dollars in debt?

[rilez]

[QUOTE=Kopimi;39825588]they're also people who are employed almost just for the sake of it at this point, doing a job that either doesn't need to be done or already can be done with less people and less funding, just so that they can continue to have a job regardless of whether they're needed[/QUOTE]

I agree that the military needs to be cut, personnel included. We won't need soldiers deployed for combat during peace time.

The problem is these across the board spending cuts won't cut enough in certain areas, and will cut too much from others. Decisions to cut spending should have been made with input from the military.

But the sequester happened, and now we're stuck with cuts that don't really get to the root of the problem.

[yawmwen]

[QUOTE=rilez;39828465]I agree that the military needs to be cut, personnel included. We won't need soldiers deployed for combat during peace time.

The problem is these across the board spending cuts won't cut enough in certain areas, and will cut too much from others. Decisions to cut spending should have been made with input from the military.

But the sequester happened, and now we're stuck with cuts that don't really get to the root of the problem.[/QUOTE]

wasn't this the whole damn point in the first place? "let's make some really fucking stupid cuts to everything that everyone will hate so that we have an incentive to negotiate!"

yea that really fucking worked out great.

[rilez]

And now we have really fucking stupid cuts

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=KingdomBanned;39827812]We're in a recession? We have 15 trillion dollars in debt?[/QUOTE]

Actually it's starting to recover.

Plus debt =/= economic prosperity.