Posted on 01/26/2013 6:33:25 PM PST by FreeAtlanta
Washington (CNN) -- The Pentagon has begun laying off 46,000 contract and temporary civilian employees in an effort to cut back on military spending, the No. 2 Pentagon official said on Friday. Full time civilian employees, which number in the hundreds of thousands, also will be furloughed for one day a week for 22 weeks, Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in an interview with wire service reporters. His comments were confirmed by a Pentagon spokesman.
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Less government workers? Perfect.
If they need food they should have to go to a central place to pick up “survival food”as you called it. REAL FOOD not prepared. If they complain that they don’t know what to do or how to prepare it tell them there’s a cookbook included for them. I HATE standing behind them in the grocery store seeing what they buy.
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Hate standing behind them in line seeing where they are FROM. Wally Mart in our area on a Sunday night is like a third world bazaar of EBT card holders.
Now, how can we sustain our budget if we suckered into supporting the lives of everyone who immigrates here? This is the GREAT elephant in the room. We’re cutting our defense for this?
Medicare and Medicaid included ...many on THOSE roles who don’t pay into it, never have, and never will.
I’m tired of this charade.
What difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
I wonder how many voted for Obama.
Furlough, in government/union speak doesn’t that mean paid time off as in vacation?
bid it out to 4 or 5 companies and have it up for renewal on an annual or bi-annual term.
Screw government. It can be done with private companies. Use the UPS to deliver so we get something out of those clowns.
I have heard rumors that after the budget problem is eventually settled, the furloughed workers will receive compensation (back pay). I don’t know if that’s true. If it is true, then it’s basically an unexpected paid vacation. Sweet for them, huh?
We had a friend (notice I said “had”) whose wife became a citizen ONLY because she could get social security even though she had never worked here for even one day. She actually got more than my mom who’d worked for most of her life. Something’s not right.
During the 1995-1996 government shutdown, Congress retroactively paid all federal employees. In 2011 the Dems were already pushing for the same type of deal if there would be a shutdown.
Sure. Defense workers lean right. So the Leftists have no trouble cutting them. And all to often, Republicans go along. All during the 1990s when Defense was being cut and consolidated, I said over and over that the Right was shooting itself in the foot.
46K of how many?
It’s unpaid vacation. The only thing that the gov’t covers...is the amount that is owed for healthcare (their portion, not yours).
So you add this up, and it’s basically three days a month from 1 April to the end of September (you work 17 of the normal days, and take 3 days off). Figure around 16 percent of your pay cut for each month, approximately.
But there is this other side of the deal. If you work with a group of twenty employees....every one of them is on a different schedule. Some guys might take all three off at once. Some might rig up a 3-day weekend. Some might just take a five-day weekend at the end of each month. So you can’t readily view your accomplishments in a normal manner.
I should add this last note. Once we prove that this works, and make it to October....it’s a 95 percent chance that no budget will exist for FY2014, and by January of 2014...we start furlough version 2.0, with another 22 day furlough. And by October 2014? Still no budget? Repeat with another 22 day furlough.
By October of 2015? You can imagine the frustration and hostility over this. Most folks will be talking of early retirement...moving out of DC because of the reduced paycheck...or just accepting a regular job in Texas because this is all a gimmick operation. Maybe in a way...it was designed to this way to purge out the military in five years.
Exactly. Most DOD civilians employees are former military.
Of course, the left doesn’t mind cutting a work force that did not vote for it. It’s sort of like killing two birds with one stone.
Actually, due to BRAC, DoD civilian employees have been concentrated even more in the DC area in the last few years.
There's been no massive influx of DOD employees here ~ almost all the activity has involved moving people from older not sufficiently secure facilities to newer militarily secure buildings.
Agreed. It’s hard to abuse a ration of rice, beans, flour, peanut butter and some veggies and fruit. And such a diet would be motivation to get a job and work, or grow a garden or find another option.
Notice no government Employees.....were laid off. That’s the BIG problem in DC, too many self serving Public servants on the payroll shuffling paper.
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In many agencies its the contractors who do the actual work. The federal employees don’t know how to do squat.
Notice no government Employees.....were laid off. That’s the BIG problem in DC, too many self serving Public servants on the payroll shuffling paper.
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In many agencies its the contractors who do the actual work. The federal employees don’t know how to do squat.
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