{"id":38729,"date":"2013-12-05T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38729"},"modified":"2013-12-05T08:31:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:31:53","slug":"hagel-to-cut-in-his-own-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38729","title":{"rendered":"Hagel to cut in his own office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/hagel-announces-cuts-to-his-own-office-hopes-to-save-1b-over-5-years-1.255914\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that he&#8217;s going to cut his own office&#8217;s budget by 20% to save tax payers a billion bucks over the next 5 years. He claims to be reducing his staff by 8%, mostly contractors and civilian personnel;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hagel said the staff cuts are designed to occur primarily through workforce attrition rather than layoffs, but a DOD fact sheet distributed to reporters indicated that more abrupt cuts might be necessary if the Congress\u2019 sequestration budget framework remains in place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that he can cut deeper if he really tries, and the folks in the field won&#8217;t miss that staff, because that&#8217;s what they really want to do, right? I mean they&#8217;re pitting retirees against active force readiness in these draconian cuts to the Defense budget &#8211; you know cuts, that no other group of retirees would accept. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20131204\/NEWS05\/312040017\/Navy-vet-Congress-supports-lower-retiree-COLAs\">Army Times<\/a>, in a link sent to us by Chief Tango, reports that Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., an Iraq and Afghanistan Navy pilot veteran, is proposing that DoD cut COLA payments to retirees as a way to save money. To be fair, he&#8217;s also proposing cuts to cost of living allowances to Social Security and Federal employees as well. That only insures that his proposal won&#8217;t pass, unless he only makes the pain felt by military retirees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that he&#8217;s going to cut &hellip; <a title=\"Hagel to cut in his own office\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38729\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hagel to cut in his own office<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,89,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army","category-congress-sucks","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}