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    Budget cuts are a bad idea if economy is to recover

    June 26, 2012

    Frank Gaffney Jr.

    Deseret News

    In response to Christopher S. Rugaber’s article, “U.S. economy added 69,000 jobs in May, fewest in a year,” (June 1):

    With our economy sliding dangerously backwards, leaders in Washington are promising left and right to create jobs. But Congress and the Obama administration have put [...]

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    Budget cuts are a bad idea if economy is to recover

    June 26, 2012

    Frank Gaffney Jr.

    Deseret News

    In response to Christopher S. Rugaber’s article, “U.S. economy added 69,000 jobs in May, fewest in a year,” (June 1):

    With our economy sliding dangerously backwards, leaders in Washington are promising left and right to create jobs. But Congress and the Obama administration have put [...]

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    Report On Defense Sequestration Finds Big Jobs Impact In Swing States

    June 26, 2012

    Loren Thompson, Ph.D.

    Lexington Institute

    A statistical analysis of how defense sequestration would impact employment in each of the 50 states finds that several “swing” states crucial to President Obama’s reelection prospects would be hit especially hard. Specifically, four of the ten states losing the most defense jobs if sequestration [...]

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    Defense cuts hurt nation’s economy

    June 24, 2012

    Frank Gaffney Jr.

    Knox News

    Regarding a story, “U.S. economy added 69K jobs in May, fewest in a year,” with our economy sliding dangerously backwards, leaders in Washington are promising left and right to create jobs. But Congress and the Obama administration have put into effect automatic “sequestration” budget cuts [...]

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    Uniforms or Battleships? Amendment Forces OMB to Define Defense Cuts

    June 22, 2012

    Hope Hodge

    Human Events

    Included in the dozens of amendments that passed with the Senate farm bill on Thursday was a measure that would require the Office of Management and Budget to report, for the first time, exactly what how much money next year’s sequester mechanism would chop, and from [...]

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    Drastic action needed before Washington acts on military cuts, Graham says

    June 18, 2012

    Schuyler Kropf

    Post and Courier

    U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says Congress may not get motivated to reverse billions of dollars in automatic Department of Defense cuts until after “thousands of people get a layoff notice.”

    During a visit by Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter on Monday, Graham, R-S.C., added [...]

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    ‘Meat ax’ looms in form of defense budget-cutting mechanism

    June 12, 2012

    Kris Mineau

    The Boston Globe

    It’s bad for politics to drive military budget choices (“ Defense needs, not politics, should guide military cuts,” Editorial, June 5), but it’s even worse if nothing drives them at all. Yet that’s what’s coming in January — $500 billion in mindless, mechanical “sequestration” that [...]

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    Army Early Outs: ‘Rightsizing’ or Degrading Force Capabilities?

    June 11, 2012

    Sergeant Major Harold G. Overstreet USMC (ret)
    Concerned Veterans for America

    Are budget cuts in the Department of Defense already having an effect on force readiness? A story in theArmy Times focusing on the Army’s Involuntary Early Separation Program suggests that may be the case.

    The key word in [...]

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    Defense budget cuts and Hawai‘i

    June 11, 2012

    The Garden Island

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Security Policy released 2011 data last week outlining the economic consequences of mandated sequestration defense budget cuts.

    The study, Defense Breakdown Economic Impact Reports, was produced by the nonprofit national security organization. It was created to assist community leaders and citizens [...]

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    Commercial aerospace to buoy CT manufacturing

    June 11, 2012

    Brad Kane

    Hartford Business

    The growing national commercial aerospace market will help offset $450 billion in federal defense spending reductions over the next 10 years, shielding the manufacturing sector from drastic problems, a new study concludes.

    And, its authors conclude, the damage in Connecticut from defense cutbacks likely could be [...]

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