The U.S. Political Battles Begin On US Defense Budget Cuts

Buck McKeon: Ignore Labor Department -- Politico

The House Armed Services Committee chairman has some advice for the defense industry: Don’t listen to the Labor Department.

Rep. Buck McKeon is in an uproar over the department’s decision to blunt what Republicans consider one of their best planks to turn President Barack Obama out of the White House.

And the California Republican isn’t alone.

Heading into the long summer recess, congressional Republicans were in a frenzy over the issue, blasting the department for signaling to defense contractors that they’re not required to send pre-election layoff warnings to their employees.

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My Comment: With no Congressional agreement in sight .... and no foreseeable talks in the future to solve the budget debt crisis ... sequestration and massive job losses are all but inevitable. In this regard .... the law is the law and if I was an employee who is uncertain about the future .... I would want to know definitively if I will be employed in a few months.

I can understand why the Democrats are nervous .... their economic message will get undermined when hundreds of thousands of workers find themselves receiving lay-off notices a week before the election. But realistically .... both parties signed onto this stupid idea of sequestration .... and it is both parties that are responsible for this mess.