Got my notification today.
DOD is drifting in the wind with a rudderless ship of state to defend.
It's ALL political.
I give us a fifty/fifty chance of actually going on furlough, especially since the notification was more a proposal.
OTOH, it would provide yet another distraction from Benghazi!
This is not new. Everyone is paying now. Private sector jobs too. I now work in a Doctors Surgical Center and we have been reduced to 4 days a week. When I was Active Duty we went through many RIFFS during the Clinton era. I have come to realize that the Govt only wants defense when they are threatened, military force will therefore ebb and flo in numbers to meet that goal. Our economy sucks and anybody who doesn’t think so has their head in the sand. So what the Dow is at record highs!! How many jobs does a higher stock market create?? None. Housing is another canard. Corporations buying up houses. Mortgage applications from private buyers are at almost a standstill. This don’t help the common man. We have relied so much on foreign manufacturing that we are effectively neutered. The only thing we have going for us is Oil and the govt wants to shut that down.
We haven’t gotten ours officially yet, but expect them in the next few days. I don’t like it, it sucks, but it could be worse. My workmates and I all used to be contractors until we got in-sourced a few years ago, and even though it’s inconvenient at times, it’s a fairly secure way to make a living and provide for my family. As we say, 80% of something is better than 100% of nothing.
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.