By Byron York
Republicans, and many Democrats, are
upset by the prospect of so-called sequestration cuts to the nation's defense
budget. Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is so alarmed that the day before the
Senate took up what became the "fiscal cliff" agreement, he called a
key Republican lawmaker, Sen. Lindsey Graham, to express deep concern that the
cuts might go into effect. As it turned out, Congress put them off for two
months.
Sequestration would force the government
to reduce discretionary spending by about $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
Roughly half of that, or $600 billion, would come from defense -- a hugely
disproportionate amount to take from the Pentagon. And the cuts would be the
worst possible sort: everything slashed, across the board, good programs and
bad.
That's no accident. Sequestration was
designed to be so awful that Congress would find a better way to cut spending.
So far, that hasn't happened.
But just because the sequestration cuts
are bad doesn't mean…
Source: Town Hall
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