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Pentagon Weighs Firing Thousands Under 2014 Spending Cuts

Fri, 08/23/2013 - 5:14pm

Pentagon Weighs Firing Thousands Under 2014 Spending Cuts by Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News.

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...

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82redleg

Fri, 08/23/2013 - 8:05pm

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.

Good, bad, something to be concerned about, or a scare tactic?