Read my comments. I said a budget cut of 2.5% does not mean a 20% cut in pay. This is a scare tactic to force you to demand tax increases.
You must not be very old because last time this happened, and every time before that, congress always paid later.
Some of you I can commend, some of you I can relate to, and you to me, but many of you, well, words cannot describe the horror of your comments. They are downright shameful, and hateful, and you deserve nothing but contempt and condemnation for them.
The many of you who are making comments like those following this paragraph have no concept of what someone like me will experience when this thing occurs. I survive, right now, on a take home income of less than $22,000, and when the sequester hits it'll be less than $18,000. I worked hard for the measly income I now make and now because politicians are more interested in gutting the military and defense instead of the massive social programs which spend much more money than the defense department does, I will lose the possibility of ever having a steady, stable, income.
These kind of comments are disgusting and the ones responsible for them should be ashamed of themselves. And yes, you are named…..
"Frankly, I can’t drum up any sympathy for “government employees” at this point (sarasmom),"
"look federal workers....you get paid too much...you have too many benefits and God knows way too big a pension (cherry)",
"have to laugh at the people squealing like stuck piglets.
Those workers are dealing with the same apprehension and fear that the rest of us have dealt with over the past five years or so.
Welcome to our world. Sucks, doesn’t it? (Vermont LT)
It would be great if it was going to be 10 times as many and not furlowed but FIRED PERMINANTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (dalereed) (ever hear of a spellchecker?)
Like I’m gonna cry for some under-worked over-paid Govt Slackers! Try being a small business man with this Regime’s daily harassment. The best damned thing that can happen for this country is to have all Fed so-called workers go home for permanently. (JohnKinAK)
Oh, those evil contractors who the government depends on but loves to hate.
No sympathy here. (Timber Rattler)
These kinds of comments are uncalled for and shows your ignorance and stupidity.
Now don’t get me wrong, I have sympathy for those who are already out of work, whether it is because of a corrupt government or other reasons, and yes, those being harassed (yes, that means you JohnKinAK). Before I got my current job I was out of full-time work for 7 years, and survived on part-time or no work for 22 years from 1992 to 2013. I know the pain of not having a job or benefits. It eventually cost me my marriage.
To you cherry, I don’t have many benefits and I have absolutely no pension fund or savings account. There’s no way I can do either on $22,000, now soon to be $18,000 (or less) take home pay a year. When I turn 62 in ten years, I’ll probably be living in a one room cubicle in a nursing facility because that’s all I’ll be able to afford! You don’t know of what you’re talking about.
To you JohnKinAK, to a man struggling to make ends meet you want me permanently fired and sent packing because politicians want to squabble instead of making decent common sense decisions? Words escape me.
To you Timber Rattler, how little you know of “those evil contractors.” If you knew what I knew you’d realize just how deceptive many (not all, but many) of them are.
Lastly, many of you who made posts showed genuine concern and sympathy, and I thank you. Honestly, though, I wasn’t even posting to raise a complaint or “whine” about my situation. I was just sharing new details that emerged earlier in the day and I wanted you all to know about them.
It’s amazing what “people” come out of hiding, and what kind of terrible comments come out of them. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised though huh? The Bible says in Matthew 15:19-20, “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man.”