Thursday, December 29, 2011

Finally some good job cutting

The Pentagon has announced plans to thin the herd of brass grazing in its many offices and corridors.
With the Iraq war over and troops in Afghanistan on their way home, the U.S. military is getting down to brass tacks: culling generals and admirals from its top-heavy ranks.

Pentagon officials said they have eliminated 27 jobs for generals and admirals since March, the first time the Defense Department has imposed such a reduction since the aftermath of the Cold War, when the collapse of the Soviet Union prompted the military to downsize.

The cuts are part of a broader plan to shrink the upper ranks by 10 percent over five years, restoring them to the their size when the country was last at peace, before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Even back then there were probably too many of them hanging around causing trouble. The good thing is that these folks won't hurt the economy when they leave their jobs. They get fine pensions and the defense cabal will probaly fit most of them into a job somewhere if they want it.

// posted by montag @ 1:05 PM
Comments:
Things will pretty much continue being the same.

This is only peanuts.

But it is something anyway.
# posted by Blogger One Fly : 1:13 PM
 

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