“A furlough is not a termination. These people will still have jobs even though the government really doesn’t have any money to pay them. In the private sector when there is no money to pay the employees they don’t get furloughs, they get fired.”
I am now a government employee whose pay will go from $1096.00 to about $780.00 a payday starting in mid-April. Now I am cool with this IF I knew that the money that is taken would go towards the debt or something IMPORTANT, but it is going to be wasted and spent on more Obamaphones. that is totally WRONG!!!!
If 800,000 furloughed Civilian contract workers get pissed off enough to demand that the government end all these silly useless spending programs, then maybe something would be done to end them. The fact is that the money follows the votes. These politicians are interested in nothing more than getting and maintaining power. Most likely, however, about 750,000 of the 800,000 furloughed employees will blame the mean unfeeling Republicans rather than the kind hearted well meaning socialists. So the only thing that will happen is that the furloughs will become as permanent as the obamamphone programs.