Posted on 10/02/2013 11:34:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Diplomats at the US mission to the EU can no longer buy office supplies or travel to conferences, as the US “shutdown” begins to bite the state department.
The shutdown started on Tuesday (1 October) after opposition Republican party congressmen refused to endorse a new budget. …
In the US, it has put the best part of a million civil servants on unpaid leave and led to museums and parks being closed.
But it is also beginning to affect US diplomacy. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
big deal....
If all these folks are leaving their job, they should not be paid for this time when the slim down ends.
Is the author being serious?
The liberal media both here and there trade anti-US propaganda.
It’s not like our “diplomacy” was doing much good with Russia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Syria, Libya, etc.
Keep ‘em shut down. Goodness, career State Department ticks who can’t suck taxpaypayer blood at frilly European resort “conferences” during the Shutdown...color me uncaring.
“travel to conferences”
They don’t have phones?
Typical European “misinformation” reporting. The Republicans didn’t block the budget, Obama and the Democrats did, but to this European fop, that is irrelevant.
And we are saving money on booze and broads.
I'm going to start a "staplers for diplomats" program right away. Anyone wishing to donate is welcome to participate. Cash only, please.
“And we are saving money on booze and broads.”
Sorry but these are obama Democrats...you mean save money on drugs and little boys......
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