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Congressman made it clear he felt the Administration had done its part by removing billions from the defense budget before passing it on to the legislative arm of the government.
“I can see the handwriting on the wall,” Mr. Robinson said, that the defense budget would not be immune from further cutting and those cuts would have to come from personnel, operations and maintenance, he insisted.
“You have to go where you can get the biggest bang for the buck,” Mr. Robinson said, in order to make cuts pay off. He said cutting weapons systems procurement meant a savings of less than 25 percent in the current budget because the costs were spread out over several years.
"If the cuts are going to affect the current year’s budget, they have to come out of things where all of the cash is laid on the line immediately.”
That, says Mr. Robinson, means personnel cuts. 1 predicted Congress would go for reductions in strength to reduce the cost of the military by reducing its size. However, he said there would be no roll back on the wage scale.
“We’ve just gotten it up to where it’s competitive now.”
Speaking in Charlottesville, Mr. Robinson made a point that much of the Seventh District benefits from the military budget, to the tune of more than $100 million in jobs.
Asked what he has done to promote more jobs in his district, Mr. Robinson cited two bills recently approved by Congress.
While what the Congressman described as a “make work jobs proposal with a $6 million price tag," was defeated, he said a $1 million training course, to provide retraining for people whose jobs have disappeared, won his endorsement.
"Some jobs are gone for good. It’s unfortunate, but it’s true,” Mr. Robinson said.
He said the other bill, a CETA type program, was “not the wav to go,” because
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