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Gary:
Gov out of money?  Must not be, TSA just ordered new uniforms at $1000 each for a total of $50 million.

Do the math, must be TSA agents everywhere.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tsa-sealed-50-million-sequester-eve-deal-buy-new-uniforms

unfy:
Sequester stuff is all just a smoke screen anyway.

$40B out of a $4T  budget ?  That's 1% in "cuts".

And, it's not even in cuts, it's in "oh, we WERE PLANNING spend extra money in March... but now we're not going to".

So... anything that blames things on 'sequester' is pure b.s. and wholly ulterior motive based to push an agenda.

Bucket:

--- Quote from: unfy on March 05, 2013, 10:43:20 PM ---Sequester stuff is all just a smoke screen anyway.

$40B out of a $4T  budget ?  That's 1% in "cuts".

And, it's not even in cuts, it's in "oh, we WERE PLANNING spend extra money in March... but now we're not going to".

So... anything that blames things on 'sequester' is pure b.s. and wholly ulterior motive based to push an agenda.

--- End quote ---
I will agree that the dramatic effects on our country are a bunch of political fluff, however these cuts aren't BS and will have real impact.

50% of these cuts will occur within DoD.  Military pay (one of the biggest budget items) is exempted, so all those cuts need to be spread across O&M, civilian pay, and acquisition/logistics accounts.  Add to that the fact that all deployed operations will continue to receive full funding, and the budget year is almost half over (meaning 100% of the cuts come despite the fiscal year being half over).  Training programs, flying hours, and routine maintenance are all taking huge hits.  DoD civilians are looking at furloughs and a 20% reduction in pay.

You can argue whether those effects are bad or needed, but they do exist.

Gary:
We just popped a face pimple, and there are thousands of carbuncles on our back.

unfy:

--- Quote from: Bucket on March 06, 2013, 12:07:41 PM ---I will agree that the dramatic effects on our country are a bunch of political fluff, however these cuts aren't BS and will have real impact.
--- End quote ---

Well, I was going to buy 2 cars in April, but now I'm not.  Therefore I saved money!

*cough*

Our current sitting President is the only one to have trillion dollar deficits, and they've been every year.

I have nothing friendly to say about 'zomg $40-90b of money we WERE going to spend we arent going to now'.

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