Sequestration At Work

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As a retired military member, I had to respond to your post. You are so right about how many military members felt abandoned by sequestration, among other programs. Your analysis is sound and, having lived through it and been one of the victims it, I can speak to its soundness from experience and from the information we’ve learned in this class.
The military’s lack of trust in its lower rank doers of the work is notorious. I was complaining about this to my dad once and he reported it had been the same when he was military back in the 60s and 70s. The military mindset comes from a very old treatment of workers, and in my opinion goes back as far as when workers were slaves. Workers are to do their jobs and don’t ask questions, “You will be

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