You gonna pay my bills? Seems like a lot of you are so eager to shut down the government...yet you forget there are some of us out here that work for the government....and we ain't part of the bloated federal bureaucracy. I'm active duty. Luckily I can take a little shut down without funding for the military. However, some of my younger enlisted certainly can't. Gonna take the rest of the week off without doing something about that?
SOMEbody had to do SOMEthing and the best something was done.
I spent my time in the military in the 60s and 70s when there were shut downs and there were a few times when I didn’t get paid either.
This country is in financial and governmental disaster whether you believe it or not. We are on a cliff being driven over it by a madman, and we cannot turn back and relent and appease any more. You also have to realize that one of the first things the House will do is float an offer to fund the military which if Obama and Reid do not agree to you can go see them.
Finally, last time I checked and when I drew an Eagle check it was once a MONTH. A week, two or three is not a ‘burden’. Not buying it.
The House sent a bill to the Senate to just fund the military. The Senate refuses to act on it. At least last I knew.
Dirty rats.
They can hold EPA, Edumacation, and HHS for dead last. We don't need them anyhow.
Are you really so sure that the DOD doesn’t get funded anyhow? It is my understanding that only non-essential government departments don’t get funded at the same level they already are at the present (i.e. park services, fishing and wildlife, a few others). Most affected in a shutdown are so miniscule in scope that hardly anyone will even notice it.
Hell the sequester hurt the military more than this if I understand it correctly.
Don’t blame the Republicans, FRiend.
The Republicans passed a plan to fund everything except Obamacare, just like the Congress has funded everything except the BORDER fence the past few years.
Welcome to the world of the self employed Nelson. It’s tough to quit living paycheck to paycheck cold turkey. Thank you for your service.