Pentagon clearly in touch with the common mans worries

[Johonny]

"Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday he wants to trim some of the billions of dollars the Pentagon spends on weapons systems and contractor services, part of a Pentagon-wide effort to find $100 billion in savings in the next five years." This will come from "unnecessary spending by defense contractors that provide the military with everything from fighter jets to janitors." The article notes "Gates' acquisition chief" Ashton Carter, who met with executives on Monday, "said that the profits of defense firms will not suffer, since the Pentagon was encouraging them to cut costs by being more productive. That could include using fewer workers on a project or cutting their material costs, he said."

So profits won't suffer. Wow you know I was worried government contractors won't make the same profits during hard economic times they did in good ones. Well at least the pentagon narrowed the suffering to the workers who will lose their job or work longer unpaid hours to make up for the missing workers. Oh and the troops who get to enjoy dieing due to inferior material usage in cost cutting measures. But once again profits won't suffer. I'll sleep better tonight.