http://www.truth-out.org/panic-pentagon-cant-pass-weapons-testing/1321461224The Department of Defense (DoD) contractors and their followers in the Pentagon are in a panic. The first set of proposed cuts in the DoD by the Congress and the Obama administration, followed by the threat of more cuts if the Congressional "supercommittee" does not come to an agreement has them claiming potential national security Armageddon.
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Fixing what is really wrong with weapons procurement in the DoD would save billions of dollars, but also would require political courage and hard work. Unfortunately, it is much easier for the DoD to cut the money from the messengers in the bureaucracy who bear bad news.
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it would take a miracle to have the Barons make a reduced budget and stick to it
since miracles are a construct it won't happen
until the pentagon is turned into an apartment house