Definitely.And how much cost-overrun is still "responsible"? We seem to be WELL PAST what a responsible company would allow.
I don't think taxing BAH takes it all. I am not following you here.Taxing BAH would eliminate BAH, and I think we're assuming first year grads make more than they do in the real world (how I always referred to the private sector when I was still in).
A new O-1 with an engineering degree is going to start out making about 15-20% less than the new civilian engineer even with BAH. I think that is fine but if the discrepancy gets too large we will lose the very people we need. For non-technical majors, I don't know how the pay compares.
Agree.As a recent college graduate most of my non-tech friends are sleeping on their parents couch either unemployed or working one as a rental car associate, bartender or selling insurance for little more than minimum wage plus commission. I am sure O-1 pay for them would be a godsend. Up here engineers starts out around 65-70k which is probably comparable to O-2. The odd (or sad) thing about the Army is you can get a degree in general studies or some random niche degree like "Organizational Leadership from an online school (Yes I have seen it...) and make just as much as that engineer who toiled for five years and probably have a better chance of getting the branch you want.
It doesn't matter really we can't sustain this war-time budget forever, the gravy train has to end sometime.
Again -- the sequester cuts nothing. Not a thing.
A slowdown in the rate of growth---is not a spending cut. Period.
You cannot spend $15 Billion more dollars this year than you spent last year and say you are having a "cut" in spending.
I am going to assume Member you are a GS13-15+
Let's remember just like the military the majority are going to be in the GS7-11 range.
Electricians, plumbers, etc are not going to answer the phone, and unlikely to get a call, instead the DoD world will sit on the list and wait to have it fixed.
DH is the hierarchy on the GS paradigm. as I suppose you are too. He has already set up our home computer for him to do some work. I know him he won't harm the AF because of political posturing in DC. I used it as an example.
Still the fact is with furloughing you may be off Monday, your counterpart is off Wednesday. Nothing will be completed until Thursday at best because you send it 4 p.m. Tuesday, your counterpart doesn't get to it until Thursday, and thus, Friday it is moving forward, but oh wait a minute. You get it at 3 p.m. send it on and no answer until you come back to work on Tuesday.
OBTW, your home computer is not a secure network like the Pentagon, please tell me how you can work from home even if you answer the phone, you can't build a brief if your computer at home can't translate the classified information.
The electrician isn't going to run out to base housing.
The housing office isn't going to bust their butts to get you in a base/post house if you are in the Q's one more night. Come back at 8 a.m!
As far as the 35 and the impact on defense for the next 10 yrs.
The 35 is AF, Navy and Marines. It is not the 22 AF only. Part of the deal was selling to:
UK
Australia
Canada
Netherlands
Italy
Israel
Turkey
Singapore
I am sure I am missing some countries, but the point is:
A. Economically for the US this is a big deal... we will have 2400 and 9 other countries will get 3100.
~~~ That is a lot of jobs.
B. I am not an insider, but let's assume we kill the 35...our newest airframe for AF would be the 22, that we killed. That leave the Strike as the next newest...30 yrs old.
China is moving forward.
I don't know the Navy's newest or Marines for combat, but I am guessing it is the 18. How old is that?
Again...go for it! Kill the 35 with a 7.9% unemployment rate. As the article stated 45 states are tied to the production. What do you think the unemployment rate will be when you kill it?
What do you think our air superiority will be in 10 yrs as China builds their next gen jet?
Luigi,
Tell those that will be furloughed the sequester cuts nothing. Not a thing. Especially, after reading Ms. Pelosi saying that MOCs won't take a pay cut because it would degrade them as an elected official.
It cuts 20% of their pay for 22 weeks.
If I recall correctly your DS went CG, is it not impacting his training?
Electricians, plumbers, etc are not going to answer the phone, and unlikely to get a call, instead the DoD world will sit on the list and wait to have it fixed.
As far as the 35 and the impact on defense for the next 10 yrs.
The 35 is AF, Navy and Marines. It is not the 22 AF only. Part of the deal was selling to:
UK
Australia
Canada
Netherlands
Italy
Israel
Turkey
Singapore
I am sure I am missing some countries, but the point is:
A. Economically for the US this is a big deal... we will have 2400 and 9 other countries will get 3100.
What do you think our air superiority will be in 10 yrs as China builds their next gen jet?
This is not just about the DoD. National Parks like Denali, Pearl Harbor, probably Yosemite and Grand Canyon too.
...as to the next generation Chinese fighters will largely depend on what Russia is willing to share with China. The current modern Chinese fighters are copies of Russian fighters. So do you think Russia is going to share the latest hardware with China?
As for F35, you only partially answer my question as to if or when Chiness build next generation fighters as the threat that F35 need to counter. Respectively disagree, and I welcome any AF type to chime in, as to the next generation Chinese fighters will largely depend on what Russia is willing to share with China. The current modern Chinese fighters are copies of Russian fighters. So do you think Russia is going to share the latest hardware with China? I am assuming unless Cheney becomes the President, we will never invade China (kdding). I really don't forsee China to have force projection capability to forward base their fighters to attack US.
The AF COS seemed to think that there were no powers close to the U.S. stealth capabilities. Not something I heard second hand. Heard it at the Pentagon... almost two years ago
Yeah, you did. He echoed the SecDEF, who stated that China's stealth aircraft wouldn't be operational until 2025, so stopping the F-22 production lie wasn't that big a deal. Based on intelligence estimates he was given (I think by a Coastie ).
Estimates brought to you by the same folks who missed 9/11, and thought Afghanistan was on the road to stabilization in 2003. Estimates that once again proven very wrong....
Keep in mind that the sequestration was never intended to be a smart and well reasoned financial approach to cutting the budget. I think it's important to remember that the "intent" of the 2012 budget compromise was to motivate both Congress and the President to find a more reasonable approach to cutting the federal budget before these automatic spending cuts took affect. Sequestration was designed (IMHO) as such a ridiculous alternative to compromise that even Congress and the President would have to find a more sensible approach to deficit reduction. Clearly that hasn't happened.This is what sequester did. Mostly cuts in the military, but with no guidance form Congress or the president to alter our national strategy in order to reduce military commitments. Do the same with less, a LOT less.