Hacking off more Federal Expendeture

There are a lot more things that have to be hacked off of the budget besides social programs and as usual the people that have their budgets shorted are going to whine and make all sorts of threats abut the services they provide.

That's just too damned bad. There are no sacred cows and the services are going to have to stand up to the upcoming $hit sandwich and take their bite, too.

While I am not really an insider on defense contractors, I can take a pretty good guess that they make a pretty hefty profit on some pretty expensive defense equipment. Technology is not cheap, and while we likely need a lot of what they sell, we just might have to get them to find a way to keep the costs down a bit without endangering the operator of the equipment. Time to sharpen the pencil and shave the profit margin a little.

In short, the defense contractors are going to have to join us in the upcoming sacrifices that are going to have to be made to get the damned debt paid down. It is either that or there is a good chance there will not be a whole lot of business headed the way of the defense contractor.

A lot of attitudes are going to have to change, too.

Use it or lose it are going to have to come to an end and a more realistic way of supplying various units is going to have to change.
In the past a unit was given so much money to spend on things and they were expected to use it all. The mentality being that if the unit didn't spend every dime than it was proof that the unit could run on lass than their allotment and therefore it was reduced. Commanders spent every cent to keep the allotment from being reduced.

What is going to have to change is the idea that a unit can spend less without the allotment being reduced. We have to realize that there will be times where a unit needs a little less than they are alloted and occasionally a little more. The people in the upper levels of command are going to have to realize thas as well as the individual unit commanders.

Waste is going to have to be weeded out and eliminated. We simply can not afford it anymore. It is not only the social programs that have to go. Just about every Federal entity is going to have to take some serious hits if we are going to make this debt problem even begin to be solved

The gravy train is over and we've just got to face the truth. We're broke.

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