Pentagon Weighs Firing Thousands Under 2014 Spending Cuts
08.23.2013 at 09:14pm
Pentagon Weighs Firing Thousands Under 2014 Spending Cuts by
The Defense Department may have to fire at least 6,272 civilian employees if automatic cuts known as sequestration slice $52 billion from its fiscal 2014 budget, according to a Pentagon planning document.
Additional budget analysis is “likely to produce further reductions” as the services focus on shrinking their contract labor forces, according to a Pentagon “execution plan” obtained by Bloomberg News. The job cuts, although less than 1 percent of the non-uniformed workforce, would mark an escalation from the unpaid leave mandated under sequestration in the current fiscal year…
Good, bad, something to be concerned about, or a scare tactic?
I’m sure that among the 718,000 DoD civilians, there are 10 x that many that produce so little that they deserve to be fired. I expect that instead of finding them and doing something to improve the organization, we’ll manage to get rid of 6,272 product workers. Its the way of a bureaucracy.