Tim Walberg actually said...

I appreciate the safety net illustration, that we want to have safety nets. We don't want to have safety nets forever for people.

We're talking about the lives of troops. We're talking about the security of this country.

But in a time of sequestration, at a time when our warfighters and their families, et cetera, are suffering reductions, for this type of dol...

As I read that, it just goes back to simple truth that a bureaucracy will protect itself.