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Sequestration could spell $39B in cuts to civilian agency budgets

Civilian agencies may lose almost $40 billion dollars in top-line funding if sequestration goes into effect on Jan. 2, according to a new analysis by the Professional Services Council. Using fiscal 2012 as a baseline, PSC calculated civilian discretionary spending would decline by $39 billion and that individual agency budget would decline by 7.8 percent. More granular data are hard to come by until the Office of Management and Budget provides more details about specific about how the cuts will affect specific programs.

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    SEQUESTRATION -- NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT NEEDS TO
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    How many companies have become dependent on Government contracts? How many contracts have been created under the guise of keeping Americans working? Why are we not tackling the real cost culprits? Manufacturing and technology outsourcing? Foreign infringement on US intellectual property rights? Medicare/Medicaid fraud? Welfare fraud? Paying for illegal immigrants and their children? Bloated contractor fees? Unnecessary contracts? And the list goes on. The politicians are too easily manipulated by money and perks, so they are ineffective but I seriously doubt they will abide the sequestration budget numbers. Since Government employees appear to be in small numbers and have little political clout, we are an easy target and I forecast we will have to be replaced by contractors. I do not think that will be enough money, so they will need to go after the next easiest target? I wonder which Govt program or office that will be? As for sequestration, it is not going to happen but needs to.
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