Base realignment plan would cut 18,000 civilian jobs

[The Straight Story]

Base realignment plan would cut 18,000 civilian jobs

By George Cahlink
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More than 18,000 Defense Department civilians will see their jobs eliminated or contracted out as part of the Pentagon's recommendations for closing and realigning military bases.

"Our current arrangements, designed for the Cold War, must give way to the new demands of the war against extremism and other threats of the 21st century," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a prepared statement Friday.

The Pentagon wants to close 33 major bases, realign 22 more and make hundreds of other changes at smaller bases. Those recommendations will be reviewed by an the independent Base Realignment and Closure Commission this summer, which will then prepare a final list for President Bush by Sept. 8. The president has until Sept. 23 to accept or reject the list before sending it to Congress, which has 45 legislative days to reject it or the recommendations become law.

The Defense Department's moves will affect 133,769 military jobs and 84,801 civilian positions at hundreds of installations nationwide. Of those jobs, 122,987 military and 66,578 civilian jobs will move to other bases, while 10,722 military jobs and 18,223 civilian jobs will be eliminated or turned over to private contractors. The Pentagon estimates its base closing recommendations will require hiring 2,818 additional contractors.

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[gumby]

1. An economy based on death

always has losers -- so to speak. The Winners know how to make death pay -- big time.

BushCo are the winners... the rest of us in the world are the losers. When death becomes a country's main unifying principle, well... bad things happen, very bad things.

BTW, the fetus fetish is a method of transferring our societal knowledge of our death economy to something that is really a private matter. Like a woman having an abortion is the same thing as the holocaust that WE are committing in Iraq with Depleted Uranium. Or a woman having an abortion or gays getting married is the equivalent of even ONE atomic bomb.

The death purveyors slip out of the responsibility for their horrific actions by blaming women and minorities every time.