A furlough is not a termination. These people will still have jobs even though the government really doesn't have any money to pay them. In the private sector when there is no money to pay the employees they don't get furloughs, they get fired.
The problem with any cuts in federal spending is that someone's ox needs to be gored.
If we don't start cutting then we have no future. I think all federal workers should be furloughed. The alternative is to fire them or go bankrupt.
Not true. There are lots of people that get laid off and rehired when things pick up (cf the construction industry).
“A furlough is not a termination. These people will still have jobs even though the government really doesn’t have any money to pay them. In the private sector when there is no money to pay the employees they don’t get furloughs, they get fired.”
I am now a government employee whose pay will go from $1096.00 to about $780.00 a payday starting in mid-April. Now I am cool with this IF I knew that the money that is taken would go towards the debt or something IMPORTANT, but it is going to be wasted and spent on more Obamaphones. that is totally WRONG!!!!