Source: Philip Rucker, Washington Post ( Free Registration )

In Killeen, Tex., where the country’s largest Army post drives the local economy, automatic federal budget cuts would furlough about 6,000 of Fort Hood’s civil service workers for one day each week. Mayor Dan Corbin predicted home sales and construction would grind to a halt; restaurant and shop owners, he said, are “worried sick.”

Of those who think the reductions wouldn’t have a painful impact, the Republican said: “I don’t know what planet these people are living on.”

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