One Million jobs at risk from Defense cuts in 2013, over 100,000 jobs lost in VA
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Anonymous
bwahahahahahah and no jobs |
Anonymous
| the tea party at work. i guess the defense and it contractors can transition into virginia other major industries; soy bean farming or running a meth lab. |
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It's the Republicans that wouldn't agree to the budget, so any defense cuts fall solely in the Republicans' laps.
Spending cuts do involve job losses, that's why state and local governments have shrunk and the unemployment rate continues over 8%. |
Anonymous
And when was the last time the Senate voted on a budget? Harry Reid won't even bring the budget up for a vote. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/03/reid-no-i-dont-plan-to-bring-a-budget-to-the-floor-this-year/ It has been over a 1000 days. You may not like the budget that the house passed but at least something was proposed. Vote on it, redo it but to blame the republicans for the budget impasse is about half right. |
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The Pentagon has wasted more than $30 billion on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan because of shoddy management and a lack of competition, an independent inquiry said Aug. 29.
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20110829/DEFSECT04/108290304/Panel-Blasts-DoD-Over-Waste-War-Contracts According to a recently released Department of Defense report, Boeing (NYSE:BA) overcharged the U.S. Army by $13 million dollars for 18 parts, the bill for which came to $23 million as opposed to a fair sale price of $10 million. DoD’s 2010 audit also found that the Air Force spent $70 million on parts from outside contractors that they already had in their inventory. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/The-Department-Defense-wscheats-2949962122.html More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends. "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted. http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-325985.html A recent audit revealed that between 1997 and 2003, our "sacred Defense Department" which seems willing to let Congress play fast and loose with Veteran's benefits, purchased and then left unused approximately 270,000 commercial airline tickets at a total cost of $100 million. http://www.examiner.com/article/three-blind-mice-the-house-senate-and-the-president |
Anonymous
| Sorry - I am the PP - I mean to add to that there is plenty of ways for DOD to cut its budget without laying off a million people. But given the choice between scaring citizen to keep their funds and actually tackling the ridiculous waste fraud and abuse that goes on in DOD and among its contractors, I think it is easy which side the DOD, contracting firms and media will choose to focus on. |
Anonymous
Republicans want a welfare dependent society where government contractors are dependent on selling to the federal government. This is capitalism at work. If you lose one buyer, you find another one. If you make something people don't want to buy, make something else. If you are a government contractor that is too lazy or stupid to adapt to finding new customers and developing new products and services, then good by to you. If you fully understood how government contracting works, you would be up in arms over the waste. A 1995 law mandates that the cap on the amount of money that can be used to pay the top five executives be established using a formula that reflects executive compensation at large publicly traded companies. Those executives, by the way, just got a 10% raise. $723,029 of your tax dollars can be used to pay for the salary and benefits for the top five executives of a federal contractor. This is overhead money being used to pay people who don't actually work on the contract or provide direct services to the government. http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20120424/ACQUISITION03/204240302/Government-pay-contractor-executives-more |
Anonymous
the problem is that the fat that needs to be trimmed is a million people who are paid to sit at work and push an enter button all day. does anyone else wonder what half the DoD civilians do all day? |
Anonymous
Yeah, like the space program brought us Tang. Sorry, my kids do not need bulletproof cars and I do not care for drones flying overhead to spy on civilians. |
Anonymous
I'll take it. |
Anonymous
In the ass |
Anonymous
| let all become pacifists |
Anonymous
Typical conservative, always fixating on anuses with the hope that they one day will become one. Mission Accomplished! Here is George Bush to pin your medal: 
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Anonymous
| This is old news from like a year ago, and meanwhile, NoVA absorbed a bunch of other companies relocating out here. NoVA will be unscathed (albeit some employees who will be laid off won't). And the next big thing will settle into NoVA. First it was dot coms, then defense contractors, there will be something else. |