Here's The GOP's First Counteroffer To Delay The Sequester

businessinsider.com ^ | 16 minutes ago (2/6/2013) | Brett LoGiurato

[kabar]

Agree. It will be the coalition of Dems and the GOP-E that will pass the compromise necessary to keep the spending going. They will just further marginalize the Tea Party, which will eventually lead to the formation of a Third Party. The GOP-E is helping the Dems to destroy the opposition.

[paratrooper82]

How about this counteroffer: end the federal push to “control” firearms in the United States, eliminate the 33 thousand gun control laws already on the books, leave reason firearm control with the individual States permanently; eliminate Obamacare immediately; eliminate the EPA; and, approve the Keystone Pipeline immediately for a vote on a one year extension without raising the debt ceiling, just an extension for one year.

Eight Deuce on the loose

[wildbill]

The Reduction in Force was last implemented under Eisenhower in the 50s to reduce bloat caused by massive increases in government jobs due to WWII and Korea.

Not only did they reduce employment hiring to replace workers, almost all civil service employees got ‘bumped’ down a notch or two in their pay grade.

My mother worked for the 4th Army in San Antonio, and someone with more senior status took her job and she had to move down to a lower paying job and grade. In personal terms for our family it was a financial hardship.

It can be done if Congress has the will and a President who will agree. Probably a dead issue because of Obama and his debts to the government employees unions.