"Harmful automatic budget cuts — known as the sequester — threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs, and cut vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform.
These cuts will make it harder to grow our economy and create jobs by affecting our ability to invest in important priorities like education, research and innovation, public safety, and military readiness."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/sequester

Meanwhile we( US military) are destroying more than $7 billion worth of equipment — about 20 percent of what the U.S. military has in Afghanistan — because it is no longer needed or would be too costly to ship back home.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-...ainment-command

On top of that we see fit to buy the Afghans a bunch of Russian and Swiss aircraft.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/06/28/report-afghans-not-ready-to-receive-800m-in-aircraft.

Why is it that people seem to be OK with the military flushing billions upon billions down the toilet when so many things that help AMERICANS are being cut. I wouldn't even ask WTF we got for all the lives and fortune we spent in Afghanistan. All I have to say is I think America has gone collectively insane.