I work at LM, but I am fairly close to retirement ( and generally had enough of my career) so ..

Let me just say lopping 10% off the defense budget will cause absolute chaos and send us ALL to the Great Recession, Part B. It's probably true that WARN notices are not required yet, because they will be cutting programs one by one and they can decide then based on the individual cuts who gets the notice.

OTOH, I don't see the point of any more defense spending. There needs to be a controlled wind-down, say 3% per year or so , so some planning can be done. There's plenty of waste in defense- I think taking 10%- 20% out of it can be done over 10 years, but not one year.

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