Posted on 07/06/2013 8:45:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A day without pay, the first of 11 through September, comes next week for more than 650,000 people who hold civilian jobs with the Defense Department. Officials worry that the Pentagon will be hit even harder by layoffs in 2014 if automatic budget cuts continue as planned.
Roughly 85 percent of the department’s nearly 900,000 civilians around the world will be furloughed one day each week over the next three months, according to the latest statistics provided by the Pentagon. But while defense officials were able to shift money around to limit the furloughs this year, thousands of civilian, military and contract jobs could be on the chopping block next year.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is expected to provide senators with more details early next week on how the next wave of across-the-board budget cuts will affect the department, said Pentagon press secretary George Little. But while defense officials have not yet released details on the impact of the cuts, Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army’s chief of staff, has warned that as many as 100,000 more active-duty, National Guard and Reserve soldiers could lose their jobs if Congress allows billions of dollars in automatic budget cuts to continue next year. …
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For all we know ... they're cafeteria workers ...
heh ... what a kick in the teeth if they turn out to be SEIU
HAW !!!
Speaks volumes!
It is always aimed at essential services so as to have the biggest impact on the people. The first obligation of the government is to protect the people of America not the people of Egypt.
The reserves have been told we can’t time our duty to coincide with furloughs. Painful as possible? Absolutely.
When are they going to start furloughing those at the EPA, DHS and HHS?
Yes, and the 2% cut wasn’t for the current budget, at the time. It was a cut of only 2% of the increase in future budgets! How asinine can you get?
When are they going to start furloughing those at the EPA, DHS and HHS?
No Sh!t. Although I did hear the IRS is forloughing for 5 days....big woop.
here’s a concept - what if no one notices the GS workers are gone...?
It's everyone, so yes it includes rocket scientists and missile specialists.
“A day without pay ahead for Pentagon workers”
Subtly misleading to low information voters. It’s actually a day without work.
My 50-something brother and his wife will be OK in spite of a series of four-day pay checks, but he said a lot of the younger workers in lower paying jobs are struggling and living paycheck to paycheck. He thinks it will be rough for them.
I don’t believe any of the DoD people, like myself, being furloughed belong to the SEIU. Some belong to other federal unions for non-GS employees. The people are all from cafeteria workers to actual rocket scientists and everyone in between. All of the civilian personnel who support the troops in one way or another. Even civilian medical personnel in military hospitals are being furloughed, a group that should have been, in my view exempted.
And all because of the sake of politics. But the post WW2 Dems have decided that the military has no mission except to be cut to provide the funds for social welfare programs they use to buy votes.
I just hate the obama regime.
Is the headline supposed to stir conservatives because it’s the Pentagon? I’d advise any outraged conservative to drive thru the Pentagon parking lot during an October of a quadrennial (presidential election) year.
Conservatives support the “Pentagon” but its workers do not support conservatives. I am not stirred or outraged with this any more than with the DHS, EPA or any other govt dept or agency.
Conservatives support the “Pentagon” but its workers do not support conservatives. I am not stirred or outraged with this any more than with the DHS, EPA or any other govt dept or agency.
Same here.
I'm sorry that a lot of good people will have to do with less, but most of them make far more in pay and benefits than I do, but do much less, and I have to pay for them.
I'm done funding sacred cows.
I can assure you that the impact will be so small no one will ever notice it.
I'm in DoD as well. But, your comment is absurd. Both parties wont pay for what we have now. The idea that the GOP is even better is absurd.
These two parties have taxed and spent everything we have given them. Dems favor higher taxes, Republicans says deficit spending doesn't matter.
As a whole, this sequester is a blessing. The world won't end because of these 'cuts'. And we both know these aren't cuts, but mere reductions on already automatic increases in spending.
Beginning with Vietnam, the Democrats have screamed how cutting the military will provide more money for butter than ‘no longer needed guns’. This is just the latest version pushed by Obama in his call 3 years ago for sequestration to be used to cut the military’s budget.
The republicans have their own continuing problems with wanting to spend, ever since Newt was forced to resign. They are part of the problem, but the Democrats and Obama are the leaders. Look at Obama’s own positions.
And you do reveal Congress’s ‘dirty little secret’ cuts are only reductions in the rate of annual increase in spending.
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