For obama to try to delay this for personal political gain is despicable..
this from a putz who never had to make a payroll or worry about his next paycheck, with an angry arrogant wife wearing $7,000 jackets to visit the Queen
Let me lay out two consequences which the government hasn’t grasped yet. If you don’t send out the warning notices, and come up in mid-December with termination notes for 2 January...a group of ten guys can come up and note they weren’t given sixty days notice, and some federal judge will terminate the termination notice. There would have to be a whole new termination notice sent out, and probably not be effective until mid-Feb at earliest. Civil case out of this? Yeah...you can find Poindexter and Poindexter Legal Associates, and sue the government incompetence.
The second consequence? If you cook up some rigged up deal on how to pick forty employees out of four hundred to lay-off...you can expect the union guys to get involved, and probably another civil court deal. My guess is that for every ten folks you lay off from the GS side....at least six will be re-hired within six months because of a court order. Congress will sit there and then angrily threaten to fire a vast number of managers because they were stupid in how they carried out a stupid congressional order.
Frankly, this all makes the government look like fools in the end. You have at least fourteen percent unemployment in the national capital region by March of 2013....with guys declaring bankruptcy by October of 2013, and houses being handed back to the banks in the DC area. If the President did win re-election....he’d in a huge mess for 2014, 2015, and 2016 as he tries to help the nation recover from his own made-up screw-up.
If you wrote this as a script for a movie....no one would believe it.