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| Leaving a force thing is certain: If the sequester kicks in, the military will be shaken from the top brass to the lowliest grunt, leaving it, according to outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, a force, a Defense Department memo to base commanders, Pentagon officials have laid out possible measures to save money. They include, among dozens of other suggestions:
The cuts going to affect the civilian workforce and that is going to affect the economy and the community, said George Goldsmith, a retired two star general who is chairman of the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce military affairs committee. going to be traumatic. officials, military leaders and defense experts say the numbers are a moving target. Beyond the furloughs, few know what the outcome for the local economy is going to be.
Although the exact fallout of the cuts is hard to pin down, they could cost the state more than 13,000 jobs and $807 million in annual payroll just from its nearly 4,000 defense contractors, according to a conservative, pro military think tank. <a href=https://zh-tw.facebook.com/aufanyi>Brisbane驾照翻译</a>
Those firms provide everything from toilet paper and salad greens for recruits at Fort Jackson and Parris Island, to armored vehicles built in Ladson to keep soldiers safe from roadside bombs in Afghanistan.
just waiting, he said.
More than 13,600 jobs shed from the state nearly 4,000 defense contracting companies over the next two years, according to a conservative think tank that tracks defense spending
Fort Jackson has 3,500 civilian workers, who are paid $51 million annually. The furlough represents $10.2 million that those workers won spend this year on gas, food, entertainment and other commodities. Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter employs another 1,340 civilian workers with a payroll of $59 million. A furlough could cost its local economy nearly $12 million this year.
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and it's young soldiers to keep them supplied with all the latest gear and personal services. bases. One conservative think thank estimates devastating losses of 16,000 jobs and $807 million in wages earned. military because of the set to take effect Friday, could cost South Carolina:
$60 million in lost payroll this year due to furloughs of up to 22 days for the state 11,348 civilian Defense Department employees, according to the Defense Department. military, a decade ago.
Already, FN Manufacturing has dropped to 500 workers from 785 in 2008, at the height of Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Many of its remaining jobs were saved because the company has transitioned to doing more non military business, such as making pistols for law enforcement. Those lines make up 40 percent of the company business today compared to 5 percent 10 years ago.
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business is cyclical, said Ralph Young, the company vice president of human resources. have to diversify. Those workers serve in myriad positions from on base schools and hospitals, to programs that help returning soldiers deal with post traumatic stress <a href=https://www.facebook.com/translatorqld>Brisbane驾照翻译</a>
disorder and find jobs.
is my survival, Anderson said as he drilled rifle barrels last week at the Old Clemson Road plant in Northeast Richland. have to take care of my family, put my kids through college. And this is jeopardizing my job. military faces $500 billion in across the board cuts over the next 10 years unless Congress and the president can find an alternative. Those cuts, called the are part of $1.2 trillion in cuts half to the military, half to domestic spending mandated after last August debt ceiling debacle. Those cuts come on top of $487 billion in reductions already targeted for the Pentagon together equaling about 18 percent of the 2012 defense budget.
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Product, according to that think tank
estimates change from day to day, said Christine Brim, spokeswoman for the conservative think tank For The Common Defense, which made the job loss predictions for South Carolina using defense contract data from 2011. all in flux. Board of Economic Advisors said it can provide or confirm any specific data about the cuts, it has lowered its estimate of how much personal income will grow in the state to 3 percent this year from 3.5 percent in anticipation of the sequester. Chief economist Frank Rainwater expressed frustration that is seemingly universal among military, economic, political and business leaders: No one seems to know exactly where the ax will fall hardest and how deep the blow.
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defense contractors pump $16 billion into the economy each year.
Now, the 42 year old husband and father of three from Cayce watches the news each night with an increasing sense of dread that automatic cuts to the nation defense budget, set to take hold Friday, will dry up FN Manufacturing orders and put him out of work.
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