[Libloather]

That's a shame.

[KingLudd]

So I guess they’ll be closing the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Viet Nam Memorial, Smithsonian Museums, National Archives, Arlington National Cemetary, National Zoo, Jefferson Memorial, WWII Memorial and the Library of Congress, among others. Gonna be a lot of Americans vacationing here with no cool American places to visit. What happens to National Parks? I think they’ll close too. Dang.

[Paperdoll]

Cut ALL salaries of $100k OR MORE of government public “servants” IN HALF! Since when do public servants earn more than their employers? Then begin to close all outdated and unnecessary departments to the quick! That would be a fantastic start.

[CodeToad]

Cut back on all unconstitutional actions of the federal government and the budget would be next to nothing.

[Paperdoll]

Unless you like big government, this should tick yuou of@

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOAgT8L_BqQ

[Logical me]

Good!!!! Never miss them.

[Iron Munro]

[arrdon]

How do you IDLE something that’s lifeless already? No mention of the PENSIONS of the ‘idled’....

[arrdon]

How do you IDLE something that’s lifeless already? No mention of the PENSIONS of the ‘idled’....

[Noumenon]

Well, most of them are ‘idling’ anyway. Let’s just stop paying them to do it.

[Ron H.]

Failure to Raise U.S. Debt Cap Seen Idling 800,000 (federal so-called) Workers

Instead why not try reducing the federal deficit by eliminating 800,000+ unnecessary federal workers from the bloated federal workforce.

[MulberryDraw]

“Failure to avert this crisis would have dire consequences,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said on the Senate floor today. “It would result in the most serious financial crisis this country has ever faced.”

Anyone with half a brain could see this "crisis" coming 15 years ago. So what's Harry been doing about it?

[lone star annie]

Breaks my heart...NOT. Too many government employees anyway. Time for them to sacrifice for the greater good.

[JayAr36]

Are these the unessential ones we often hear about?

[chiefqc]

And he problem with that is what?????

[Dixie Yooper]

They should start with every federal job holder that's been hired since Obama got elected.

[Joe Boucher]

You could get rid of a hell of a lot more than 800,000 gub mint workers (leaches), and no one would notice their worthless asses are missing or their worthless jovs have been left undone.
SHUT this oversized gub mint down.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So will the next uptick in the unemployment numbers again be “unexpected”?

[xp38]

To borrow the punchline from the lawyers at the bottom of the ocean joke....A good start.