APG85 wrote:
It's all about money and there just isn't any to spare for luxuries like airshows anymore...sadly. Unless there's an operational need or requirement, its not going to happen. This is just the beginning of the real belt tightening...
No, this is about government control. This government can withstand a great deal of belt tightening if the correct priorities are set.
The effect of sequestration is to curtail the most visible government services to convince the public to give in to ever increasing taxes and government spending. This first thing the DOD wants to do is to let the public feel their pain. That sure is a lot easier than cleaning their own house by eliminating waste and fraud.
For the same reason politicians always threaten that cuts will take money from social security and medicare, rather than from the most wasteful and fraud ridden programs, because those are the ones their cronies pay (bribe) them well to vote for.
Sequestration is the best thing that could happen to the US IMHO. The other options are bankruptcy or total control of how you spend your wages & income by the government (i.e. you won't be left with much discretionary spending).
This whole sequestration thing could have been avoided if our elected officials had done their job in Washington. That's very hard to do though when it means that you have stop diverting tax revenue back to your union and corporate campaign donors. Now the political elite have about reached their borrowing limit too in reciprocating to their lobbyist cronies.