you can t do that. we cut it regardless a good or bad idea. bret: year over year the budget overall is increasing the pentagon is unable to avoid affecting personnel negatively because they have to cut across the board to those individual buckets. absolutely. they have no choice. it seems crazy because it is crazy. if you were doing rational, you know, management of anything you would say what is important, people are important, make sure they get paid and take the cut somewhere else. they don t have the ability to do that. so the people will get furloughed. wasn t congress pass a bill and say well, give transfer authority for sequester so they can move the money around? the congress could give every agency transfer authority. it doesn t, because it likes to control where the money is spent. decide how much money get spent. likes to know where it goes. what state does it go to? projects i like or not like. bret: the president could call for it, congress could do