This is just a continuing resolution funding the Govt temporally. This is not the annual budget. Right? There was no budget passed in 2010 for 2011 so CR’s for a few weeks at a time are the way the govt is being funded. The 2012 budget formed in 2011 will be the big fight.
I believe that if our so-called CIC had not held our soldiers as pawns, there might well have been a different outcome. the troops had ALREADY been notified - before we even knew if there'd be a shutdown or not - that they were not getting paid for APril 9-15th!
This liliy-livered CIC - who'd probably faint dead away if someone put a combat rifle in his hands - promised to veto the bill the republicans had to make sure the military would still be paid. But the POS CIC was making sure they would get docked, even tho' they would be required to still 'show up for work' unlike the true 'nonessential' workers, who would NOT have to work AND would get unemployment!
Take our soldiers off the board - they never should've been there - and I surmise you'll see a different outcome.
We need to start this drum beating NOW.
LEAVE OUR SOLDIERS ALONE. They are NOT "nonessential"
Of all the disgusting things this POS CIC has done, this is the worst. (And may just be the only promise he's ever kept!)