Obama's job killer defense polices hit 570 more

Fox News:

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. – maker of the Black Hawk helicopter – has announced the elimination of 570 jobs, becoming the most recent defense contractor to announce financial struggles amid tightened defense spending and the potential for drastic cutbacks in January.

The Pentagon plans to cut $487 billion from its budget over the next decade, but contractors and lawmakers alike are alarmed about a separate wave of cuts that could begin Jan. 2 unless Congress and the White House team up to avert them.

The Sikorsky cuts are set to go into effect Dec. 31 when the company closes its upstate New York plant and sends the work to its facility in West Palm Beach, Fla.

"Faced with these difficult economic conditions, we must eliminate excess production capacity and increase operational efficiencies to remain competitive," Paul Jackson, spokesman for the Stratford, Conn.-based subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., said Monday.

The job cutbacks are the latest contractor casualty.

Northrop Grumman recently announced it was cutting 600 aerospace jobs. And the announcements come as House Republicans renew their calls for the Obama administration to reveal the full impact of the next wave of scheduled defense cuts. They're concerned specifically about guidance from the Labor Department over the summer that federal contractors would not have to give 60-days notice of mass layoffs despite a federal law that says companies facing such circumstances should.

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This is a result of Obama's irresponsible defense policies and his irresponsible spending priorities.  He refused to do anything to deal with the debt crisis and is trying to use national defense as leverage for a tax increase on job creators.   Why does anyone other than the 20 percent of voters who are liberals support this and and his bade policies?  He certainly does not have teh best interest of the country at heart with these moves.