According to emails received this afternoon, it appears DOD has bit the bullet and sent out official notice today to DOD employees to expect possible furloughs to commence in 30 days.
In other notes, under sequestration it gets even worse for the Navy- 4 Carrier Strike Groups (and associated Air Wings) deployments cancelled, 20+ small boy deployments cancelled, 20ish ships scheduled for upgrade/major maintenance cancelled. Multiple aviation squadrons ‘cold iron’ for 30-60 days at a time, etc…
And of course it’s ALL the Pubs fault… BS… I think the fiscal impact is going to be HUGE, and sure as hell our ability to defend the country is going in the toilet…
And you know what is ‘really’ ironic? Guess who does NOT get furloughed???
Congresscritters!!! GAH!!!
In other notes, under sequestration it gets even worse for the Navy- 4 Carrier Strike Groups (and associated Air Wings) deployments cancelled, 20+ small boy deployments cancelled, 20ish ships scheduled for upgrade/major maintenance cancelled. Multiple aviation squadrons ‘cold iron’ for 30-60 days at a time, etc…
And of course it’s ALL the Pubs fault… BS… I think the fiscal impact is going to be HUGE, and sure as hell our ability to defend the country is going in the toilet…
And you know what is ‘really’ ironic? Guess who does NOT get furloughed???
Congresscritters!!! GAH!!!
I take no joy in having a ringside seat to the fall.
The Congress Critters need fired and some of them locked up.
I have tried to back off and accept what this Country has become. I can do so no longer, yet there is little I can do to reverse it.
+1 Carteach.
I’d love to think that this is a bad as it will get . . . .
Unfortunately, it’s not even close . . . .
You just wonder how any single man can hate our country so much.
Furlough Congresscritters? The hell you say!
Lock ’em all in the brig, throw away the key, and forget about ’em.
and the WARN act never kicked in.
Congress is needed to watch over us like a caring parent would…
How could they be furloughed? Who would spend the money?
A ship’s captain can still order a man/woman/transgender service member confined and put on bread and water. It would be nice if the American public could do the same thing to the President and Congress.
Yep, what LL said.
Carteach- Me neither…
Rick- Concur!
Keads- True dammit…
WSF- Yep
eia- We haven’t SEEN bad yet…
Raptor- If only…
Ed- Yeah, that’s ANOTHER bill that has to be paid… Obummer said he’ll take care of it…
LL/Rev- Amen!!!
@LL – actually, the American public can get rid of ’em. There just aren’t enough of us (us = people who think like we do) to pull it off.
And I agree with the general tenor of these comments – forget furloughing the congresscritters. The Texas solution is a tall tree and a short rope…
I have no witty sayings, only tears for my beloved country…..
The sequestrian was his idea a couple of years ago..Now he blames the republicans for the idea that his white house proposed…and the media don’t call him on it. We don’t have a dedicated media..just a propaganda arm for the establishment.
Oh boy. Things in this area are going to get very interesting when people start losing their jobs.
Meanwhile, the military is the one major expense on the budget that’s Constitutional. The entitlements? Not so much.