[SkyPilot]

texican01Remember DOD employees are also government employees!

I would pay money to see you stand in front of the family members of the DoD civilians murdered and the hundreds wounded, burned, and maimed on 911 in the Pentagon attack and mock them.

Moreover, 45% of the DoD employees who getting furloughed are Veterans, and thousands of those are combat veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq who are disabled.

Further, 85% of these jobs are located outside of Washington DC - performing noble functions that are vital to our military.

Many federal workers facing furloughs are veterans

Free Republic is going down hill these days. We used to have primarily Conservatives and patriots here. These days, we have our share of malcontents and rock throwers.

It is tangible evidence signaling the overall rapid decay of our nation.

[blueunicorn6]

What a phony argument. Nice try at playing on emotions. 800,000 civilian Department of Defense employees is still the equivalent of 40 Divisions of Soldiers. When I signed up, I didn’t see anything about DOD being responsible for providing me with a job for life. The United States military exists to prevent, fight and win our wars. It’s not an employment agency. That said, I think the DOD civilians should be about the last people cut from Federal employment. How do the DOD civilians vote? Do the majority of them vote Democrat or Republican? I was a DOD civilian employee at one time. My experience was that most of them vote Democrat. Democrats don’t like the military. I can understand people voting in their self-interest, but the DOD civilian employees don’t seem to follow that.