BREAKING: 800,000 Set to be Unemployed by Government

Thread: Sequestration: The Big Bad Ass Cliff, or Another Bullshit Shell Game?

This is going to be a fun few weeks. Hope all the pump monkeys enjoyed their banana.

Here we just call those layoffs or temporary layoffs...

Good point OP - though the liberal scum will do anything to put more blame on anyone else but themselves.

I say blame nObama - where it belongs.

My Father who is a 26 year Vet of the Air Force, after retiring as Chief Master Sergeant and 3 tours in Iraq, will be Furloughed starting next month. Let me help you all understand what this will do. 2000$ per month is lost. What would you do with/without that extra money? Nuff said

While I appreciate your father's service to the American People, regardless of viewpoints of the wars, etc. It's not to worry, there will be no sequestration.

It's a mother fucking shell game to keep us off balance.

Will they collect a paycheck on furlough

this is the question.

If not, they have to classify themselves as laid off to unemployment

to collect any kind of benefits.

Unemployment does not have any designation other than:

1. fired
2. quit
3. laid off

If they are not collecting a paycheck, then

they will not have monies to put back into the economy or not what

they use to...


this is basically,

a lay off until further notice

and many may not find their job is available to

come back to

.
You got that right man.

Yes, something productive would be good. The deadweight of the bureaucracies isn't affordable any longer.

Not sure I understand you. Your father is drawing mil retirement pay, right?

Does he also have a gubmint job that he will be furloughed from?

You seem to be implying that his military retirement pay will be cut. I don't think that is the case.

Yes, and if you'd get your idiotic, entitled noses out of everyone's business, there would be jobs well beyond these, as well as sufficient revenue (via lower taxes even) to continue funding the ever-increasing welfare state you guys love so much. You're all just too stupid to see it.

I totally agree. Feel sorry for these people, but we cannot afford them. NEWSFLASH: WE'RE BROKE! Ain't got no money to pay them.

Yes, and it sucks. It will suck for all of us and be bad for the economy overall. But printing more Monopoly money to pay them with is not the answer. There is no easy way out of this situation. We have GOT to balance the checkbook.

I have to agree with this. Government is too damn big.

You got that right. My wife is one of them. We have talked about it for years that they could do the job with half of the people they currently have right now.

If someone gets into trouble, they really don't do much to them. If they did the same thing in the corporate world, the would be fired in an instant. Primarily it is the union. They do have a place, no doubt, but defending some of these dead weights is pretty bad sometimes.

I can't wait! There's precious little, if anything that the feds do that I need or want. They could easily drop twice that number of employees(not "workers") and we wouldn't even notice, other than maybe life is a little easier.

Good riddance.

THANK GOD, WE ARE SAVED!

The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission preliminary list was released by the United States Department of Defense on May 13, 2005. It was the fifth Base Realignment and Closure ("BRAC") proposal generated since the process was created in 1988. It recommended closing 22 major United States military bases and the "realignment" (either enlarging or shrinking) of 33 others.

Major facilities slated for closure include these:
Fort McPherson, Georgia
Fort Gillem, Georgia
Naval Submarine Base New London in Connecticut (removed from list August 24, 2005[2])
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine (removed from list August 26, 2005)
Naval Air Station Brunswick in Maine
Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota (removed from list August 26, 2005)
Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico (temporarily removed from closure August 26, 2005, pending review of new mission assignment)
Fort Monmouth in New Jersey
Defense Finance and Accounting Service in New York
Fort Monroe, Virginia
Willow Grove Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base in Pennsylvania
Naval Station Ingleside, Texas
Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts (removed from list August 26, 2005)
Navy Supply Corps School (Athens, Georgia), relocated to Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island in 2011.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Wow, i never knew there were that many politicians, parties and their staff....

^^^^ this ^^^^^

unelected bureaucrats

Good

gov't "workers" don't work...they're employed by the Feds.

I don't consider taking my tax dollars and giving it to someone in the DoD to spy on me a job. These 800,000 people should not have had these jobs in the 1st place. So no the government cannot possibly create jobs when they use tax dollars that have been given to them to fund these so called jobs. If the money was with the people where it should be every person on the federal tit could get a real job and have a real employer.

Just like the liberals in Dakota were somehow able to talk the people of Dakota into keeping their property tax. All they had to say was that big brother uses the property tax to build roads, schools etc. and that they need his help to continue to have these projects completed. Meanwhile the truth is if those people in Dakota took the funds they saved from no more property tax and put it in to a newly created Dakota bank/community funds that could give loans to new businesses or for new projects they could have built up their own communities without the government tit in their mouths. When will people realize we can do it ourselves and we could do a better job without these greedy traitors skimming off the top and bankrupting every government funded program?

Cut the military yet keep Obama phones?
Do NOT allow the politicians to send the message off the rails. We MUST spend less as a nation.

So we do need to cut them out of government employment as much as possible.

It's a start. I'd hate to see them have a "bipartisan" negotiation and decide to cut more SS and Medicare instead.

The whiners and losers in the military, congress, and other government-funded pursuits are lining up to tell Congress their sob story of why "You can't take away my money/job/program." They're no better than the Obama phone lady. Gimme, gimme, gimme.

Except the government employees were in a position to know in advance that this was coming. They could've found a solution but they figured they didn't have to because they could always beg their way out of it.

Or as i see it VERY good!