Posted on 07/08/2013 7:10:29 AM PDT by areukiddingme1
Furloughs for Department of Defense civilians begin Monday [7 July 2013], a move that amounts to a 20 percent cut in pay for hundreds of thousands of defense workers over the next three months and will disrupt operations at installations around the country, Pentagon officials warn.
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Hey Mr. Present_dent — Thanks a$$hole! Not only are you weakening the military, you are weakening the nation. Great job you F’n loser! Dear God in heaven can we please have an American President again...please.
When do the EPA, DHS and HHS furloughs start?
When will the #1 spender in the nation have his executive budget reduced? To cut only defense undermines the chief duty of the federal government, to defend the nation. That should be the last to be cut, after the extra-constitutional departments are cut or better yet, eliminated completely.
“When do the EPA, DHS and HHS furloughs start?”
Now that is a damn good question...especially the EPA. They are much like the appendix in my humble opinion, I’m sure at some point it served a useful purpose, but then you realize you CAN live without it.
With as much fraud, waste, and abuse there is in government, no department, including Defense, doesn’t have at least 50% to cut and still be able to be effective.
“To cut only defense undermines the chief duty of the federal government, to defend the nation.”
Amen!!! An American President would know that.
Frankly Scarlett, everyone in America getting a check from the government should be taking a 40% cut just for govt to break even. After all, over 40 percent of government money is borrowed and I didn’t give government the power to borrow on my signature.
That includes the 50 states who are sucking up Sam’s cash quicker than it can be printed. And where might you ask does Sam come up with cash in the first place? If I have to answer that question, we are talking low low low information voters.
On top of all that, we have the debt ceiling, forever being raised to promulgate the perfidy, the Federal Reserve giving money away to foreign and domestic banks as fast as the computer can operate the thousands of bureaucracies local state and federal spending like there is no tomorrow, and on and on.
One would think a president with any brains would be the point person to bring the nation back on track.
Moron.
Those have already been going on
Considering our national debt and how bloated the DoD budget has become in recent years, this will most likely have 0 impact on our ability to defend the nation
Tax Tyrant. Idiot. Thief. Go wrap yourself in someone else’s flag and stop using mine for toilet paper.
Supporting the warfighter is one thing, we need national defense, but screwing the taxpayers/citizens to do it is a crime. So you can kiss my ass.
There is a difference in supporting the war fighter and supporting BAH.
These will be mostly non-essential personell. As with every part of the federal gov’t, everyone cries “disaster!” with this sequester yet everything has worked just fine.
No more scare tactics. Our military can still crush any other fighting force on earth
You’re obviously somebody we can do without. What exactly is it that you do that is so damned important we need to maintain these extremely high tax rates?
That is an incorrect statement.
I would try and explain it to you, but I doubt you would understand.
No its not.
We are talking CO’s and IT managers having to take Friday’s off. Cry me a river
The Navy is doing so bad they had time to award NGEN last week
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=75100
In other words, you can’t justify your existence to a taxpayer.
Support this fraud as a c-in-c all you want — I for one hope and pray every day that America will wake up and elect an American President next time, one that actually knows that his job is to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic” and not against American’s.
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