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Some of the comments on this board make me want to think about leaving the Republican party permanently.

Yesterday, a single mom I know who is a GS-05 called me up. Look up that pay - it isn't much. She has a child with severe medical issues. Her husband abandoned her and the child several years ago. There is very little money in her home due to all her medical and other expenses (if you think insurance covers everything, dream on).

She works for the Dept of Defense. She doesn't accept any handouts. She doesn't take Food Stamps. She doesn't have an ObamaPhone. She pays her taxes (Federal, State, local, and property). Yet, on this board and all over the country, people like her are vilified. She is vilified by the same people who have no problem cashing their own entitlement check, or taking their own government healthcare, or being employed a lucrative government contract.

She will take a 20% cut, yet she still has to make her payments for her insurance, car repairs on her 15 year old car, and a mortgage for a small house in a marginal area.

She broke down in tears at the end of the conversation and asked me to pray for her.

For anyone out there who is still a Christian (not too many left on this board it seems), please pray for Beth.

When I hear Hannity talk about this as being a "2% cut" I want to scream. It is not a 2% cut for the Dept of Defense. ">It is a 13% cut. This cut is not being shared. 2/3rds of all spending encompassing Entitlements are EXEMPT from Sequestration. Any out there who didn't fail 4th grade math?

Congress and the President will do just fine, thank you.

I am disgusted by the behavior of our own government, and the comments by some on this board. You hurl accusations at the noble. Many of these people who are about to get screwed are not "the takers." They are hard working Americans who are doing their best for a noble agency that is Constitutional.

God help us all.

you do realize that is is only a 2% cut of all spending and it’s the president and his regime who decided where the cuts would come from. Carville even said that they cut where it would hurt the most people so they could get the most mileage from it. The democrats are punishing your friend, not freepers.
We feel bad for these people but the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the prezzy. The folks here are just tired of being beat-up every few days while there is a class of people in our country that seem to get away unscathed. The federal government has to be cut and the prezzy decided to take it out on the only area he wants to cut, defense and border security.
We will be praying for those that are less fortunate.

Amen

Just look at what obama has done to us, turning us against each other. We are a house divided.

Turning anger at what he and the democrat party are doing to ruin this country, against an entire federal workforce of decent people who get up and go to work everyday and try to maintain pride in their professional roles. Beth is the norm, not the exception.

We too looking at a 20% pay cut, just gonna suck it up and try to enjoy the extra time off finding free and cheap stuff to do with the kids

First, I pray for Beth and all those who will feel the pain from these cuts and ALL the MILLIONS of Americans who are feeling the pain of the Obama Administration.

But, I want you to understand that we out here in the NON-Government workforce have been dealing with this crap for FOUR YEARS! She is just NOW feeling the weight of Obama’s Presidency!

Since 2009, my company has laid off nearly 50% of our national workforce - many of them VETERANS! We have not had pay raises in FOUR years (some of us VETERANS took temporary pay CUTS to keep our jobs (until times were better)), most government workers only got a pay FREEZE two years ago, we have taken on extra work and had to spread our coverage over several STATES as our co-workers were RIFed.

I know this sounds un-Christian-like to you, but welcome to the party! I, along with MOST Freepers, take no pleasure in others having to take a loss, but we do enjoy the SHRINKING of the US Government. Understand that we too have friends who are single, with sick kids, who have to pay bills, working two and three part-time jobs because Obamacare is making companies scale back their full time workforce! I have TWO of my kids (along with grand kids) now BACK home with me due to this Presidency - this pain isn’t JUST starting on March 1st, 2013 - it has been GOING ON FOR FOUR YEARS!! We ALL have problems, but the non-government tax payers cannot continue to pay more and more just so the US Government can have their GUARANTEED 8% (baseline) budget INCREASE every year! It has to END!

It isn’t that we don’t care, it is that we already are, and STILL are, feeling the PAINS that these employees are just NOW starting to realize! The sooner you, Beth and others realize how bad it really is out here, the sooner you, Beth and others will want to help fix this BEHEMOTH known as our current US Government!

And last, but not least, these were cuts in DISCRETIONARY spending, so it was up to each department to come up with cuts and plans to fulfill these cuts ordered BY President Obama! This Administration decided to IGNORE these impending cuts (thinking that they would just go away) and failed to plan for and implement them! More importantly, the Obama Administration is trying to make these cuts to be as PUBLIC and PAINFUL as possible - for political purposes - and you want ME to feel guilty because OBAMA is hurting people for political purposes? Sorry, but that simply isn’t going to happen!

Last thing: if people wanting to shrink the US Government makes you think about leaving the Republican party, then leave! The Republican party already has PLENTY of BIG-GOVERNMENT RINOs!