Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
How much is getting cut from the defense budget this year? They're only cutting $1.2 trillion over 10 years. That isn't a lot.
Not a lot? Wasn't the 2012 DoD budget approximately $670 billion? Just for easy math if you reduce that by $120 billion for the first year isn't that about a 18% cut? That's pretty severe, IMO.
Now that's based purely on your number of "$1.2 trillion over 10 years." Not sure if that's accurate.