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Pentagon Readying 800,000 for Rolling Layoffs
The Wall Street Journal ^ | December 30, 2012 | DION NISSENBAUM And DAMIAN PALETTA

Posted on 12/30/2012 10:27:43 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

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1 posted on 12/30/2012 10:27:48 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
The Pentagon will be forced to cut $55 billion in spending in the first nine months of 2013, a roughly 10% reduction in many of its programs

With baseline budgeting thats like a spending freeze.... meanwhile Obama has expanded their mission to Africa

2 posted on 12/30/2012 10:30:28 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Layoff the whole federal government , also the EPA, FEC ,FDA, OFCCP, etc. , permanently

Don’t give in GOP, go over the media’s stupid cliff


3 posted on 12/30/2012 10:32:05 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I am very concerned about the potential cuts to weapon systems, not so much about the civilian workforce.

there are way too many pencil pushing civilians clogging the cogs of the U.S. military. getting rid of many of these positions would be a very good thing. I know this first hand.


4 posted on 12/30/2012 10:32:13 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We have 800,000 civilian government employees in the Department of Defense. How many of them have gone to Iraq or Afghanistan for a year or three out of five years? The Military-Industrial Complex isn’t uniformed personnel. Take her off the cliff, boys!


5 posted on 12/30/2012 10:32:49 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Democrat_media

I want to see it go over so bad I can taste it.


6 posted on 12/30/2012 10:35:04 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: MinorityRepublican

This should REALLY drive the “Fun With Numbers Friday” numbers down. I already see a huge drop in those applying for unemployment. The unemployment rate will probably drop below 4% once these 800,000 are let go. Da conomy be boomin’.


7 posted on 12/30/2012 10:35:15 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where can I pick up a 2013 Mayan calendar?)
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To: MinorityRepublican
And this is a bad thing?

Layoff those bureaucrats in the EPA, FCC, FDA, FEC,OFCCP, HUD and so on ,and on , . So long cretins. Then we'd have freedom .Don’t give in GOP, go over the media’s stupid cliff, best thing that could happen

Layoff the whole federal government , also the EPA, FEC ,FDA, OFCCP, etc. , permanently

8 posted on 12/30/2012 10:37:27 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: MinorityRepublican

In 2009, the company I worked for lost 2 major customers resulting in a 25% pay cuts for many of us.

Guess what? We survived and learned to get by with less pay.

I am not so confident that federal employees(most but not all) have the ability to financially cope without a Government check specifically because most(not all) federal employees are clueless regarding the basic economic fundamentals.


9 posted on 12/30/2012 10:38:31 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Democrat_media
Don’t give in GOP, go over the media’s stupid cliff

I agree.

10 posted on 12/30/2012 10:39:28 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Ho, ho, hey, hey, I'm BUYcotting Chick-Fil-A)
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To: Gaffer; All

Yeah me too. We should call our GOP congressmen, tell them
to hold the line, don’t give in , go over the media’s stupid cliff


11 posted on 12/30/2012 10:39:38 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This will also affect Defense Contractors. I am looking at my 3 rd layoff in 3 1/2 years.


12 posted on 12/30/2012 10:40:59 AM PST by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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Yeah me too. We should call our GOP congressmen, tell them
to hold the line, don’t give in , go over the media’s stupid cliff

To all :

Call Congress (202-224-2131)


13 posted on 12/30/2012 10:42:15 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: blueunicorn6

When a ‘company’ can take an 800,000 cut in the workforce and still carry out basic functions, that tells me there are 800,000too many people working for it.

Radical idea, I know....


14 posted on 12/30/2012 10:43:25 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: MinorityRepublican

Every federal worker is begging for this to happen as they will eventually get reimbursed and therefore these will all be paid days off.

Its just like the supposed pay freeze. Sure, they freeze the pay...but then make it up by giving bigger and bigger “bonuses”. Now, after getting huge bonuses this year, Obama is giving a pay raise. Does anyone really think they will have to give the bonus back?


15 posted on 12/30/2012 10:47:29 AM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: MinorityRepublican; All
We should call our GOP congressmen, tell them to hold the line, don’t give in , go over the media’s stupid cliff To all :

Call Congress (202-224-2131)

16 posted on 12/30/2012 10:47:29 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: Gaffer

“I want to see it go over so bad I can taste it.”

Thank you for saying what I’ve been thinking!


17 posted on 12/30/2012 10:47:44 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Gaffer

You and I both. I called Roskam’s office twice last week. I told him the following:

No tax increases on anyone.
Serious across the board spending cuts.
Dump Boehner as Speaker.
Just pass a 3 year extension of the current Obama tax rates and adjourn.

L


18 posted on 12/30/2012 10:50:06 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Democrat_media

You left out the IRS.

And no these people aren’t “hard working Americans” They are scum of the earth working for their master. I despise every last one of those cretins with every ounce of my soul.


19 posted on 12/30/2012 10:50:59 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: longfellowsmuse
there are way too many pencil pushing civilians clogging the cogs of the U.S. military. getting rid of many of these positions would be a very good thing. I know this first hand.

Unfortunately ... you're right.

20 posted on 12/30/2012 10:51:15 AM PST by OldNavyVet
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