WILMINGTON,
NC (WECT) - Dozens of people joined the Concerned Veterans for America Thursday
to listen to a presentation from former congressional candidate, Ilario
Pantano.
In front of
a large crowd at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building in Wilmington, Pantano spoke about the
sequestration, national debt and other problems that he says are hurting this
country.
Pantano says
he wanted to detail some truths about the upcoming sequestration and the
national debt.
If the
sequester goes through Friday, as planned, multiple government agencies
could see massive cuts in their federal funding including groups like the CVA.
Pantano says
he's concerned about the automatic spending cuts, but he thinks the government
has to do something before it's too late.
"Spending
money is a national security issue," said Pantano. "There is a spending problem in this
country."
"These
cuts are very painful and will cause a contraction in time," said
Pantano. "But if we don't address
the spending problems, we will be back at square one again. We need a long term fix to the problem."
"One of
my concerns in this fight against debt is that the big dog will always get
theirs, unless we can reform the process."
One of his
biggest concerns is our military.
Pantano says these cuts will make our army smaller than it was before
WW2 and our navy will be smaller than it was before WW1.
Pantano says
his goal today was to give people some insight into the political gears of how
decision makers operate.
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