So much for your ridiculous example
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Now that sounds like a normal response from a typical liberal - if you can’t say something constructive, ATTACK.
In my ‘ridiculous example’, is it better to ‘short’ your staff of 50 $2000 ea or just let go a couple of people go?
Naturally if you are not to be let go, ‘It isn’t fair’ BUT if you were on the to go list, the 8,000 dollar raise would be welcomed.
Apparently you are ‘unaware’ of what a ‘working example’ is.
I am sorry, but I am not privy to (nor is it any of my business) what your personal situation is, down to the penny.
Is yours an ACTUAL loss or is it projected from what Chicken Little has been spreading?
If someone says if you have 6 apples in your hand and you give someone 4 how many do you have left, A proper response could be “6 apples wouldn’t fit in my hand” but it has little to do with showing someone 6-4= 2.
The ‘point’ in general being when dealing in trillions 50 billion equally spread out through all departments is not all that bad.
I would imagine that if we ‘knocked off’ paid holidays for a bit it would be a tremendous saving.
If you can afford to ‘furlough’ people 1 day a week or month for several weeks or months, are ALL those people really necessary?
Of course you will have the moaners and groaners that can’t handle the excessive workload because someone was furloughed that day.
Remember they used to say ‘NON essential personnel’ need not report tomorrow, people would come out of the woodwork and even off sick leave to show up for work LEST someone figured non essential meant they were, in fact, not essential.
If you can afford to ‘furlough’ people 1 day a week or month for several weeks or months, are ALL those people really necessary?
I don’t know yet but we will find out. I don’t mind losing 20 percent of my pay. I just wish everyone was giving up something. It is again us vs them. The reason I am so low on my pay is because I just retired from the military and was hired as a veteran. A good amount of the federal government in DOD is prior military folks. Sure you have some that never served but a good many are Iraq and Afghanistan war vets and they are hired. I am not giving you a sob story just a little reality. Again if they would cut 20 percent on welfare and food stamps and unemployment, I would not complain a minute.
“Remember they used to say ‘NON essential personnel’ need not report tomorrow, people would come out of the woodwork and even off sick leave to show up for work LEST someone figured non essential meant they were, in fact, not essential.”
I think people have misunderstanding of what the DOD considers “essential” and non-essential” positions.
Essential positions generally are those that are required for physical security and operations of a facility or mission.
Non-essential is everyone else, no matter what their job is.
For instance a depot maintainer (the guy or girl who actually repairs the military equipment at depots so it can be returned to use) is usually considered non-essential. Are they important to the mission of DOD ???? Heck yea they are. If they don’t work, equipment doesn’t get repaired. Some in the public however think that because they are non-essential, they aren’t really important. Essential and non-essential designations can really be misleading if you don’t know how the categories are broken out.