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Posted on 07/27/2012 3:46:32 PM PDT by JOAT
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of civilian employees in the Defense Department could receive warnings about potential layoffs four days before the November election if impending spending cuts aren’t averted, hitting presidential battleground states such as Virginia and Florida hard.
The alerts would come in addition to any that major defense contractors might send out at the same time to their workers under an often-overlooked law, a prospect that is unnerving the White House roughly three months before voters go to the polls.
Frederick Vollrath, a senior Pentagon official, outlined the timeline for notification of possibly 10 percent of the 800,000-strong civilian workforce in testimony Thursday before a House panel. He cautioned, however, that no decision has been made on job cuts as Washington grapples with the looming, $1.2 trillion automatic reductions in defense and domestic programs.
“I don’t think anybody has been able to come to grips yet with the severity of what sequestration means,” Vollrath told the House Armed Services subcommittee on readiness.
Rep. J. Randy Forbes, R-Va., the panel’s chairman, reminded Vollrath that the cuts were part of the law that Republicans and Democrats voted for last August and President Barack Obama signed.
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WAPO suckO.
Send a similar notice simultaneously to Zer0.
Lay em off! Maybe they will fell like the rest of the people are feeling.
Oh, wait, never mind...
When push comes to shove, renege........ Start a new hand and act like the last one just did not exist.
LLS
Guns or butter, has become bullets or food stamps.........
That’s what happened here in NJ; thousands of cops, teachers, firemen, and other municipal workers (and they won’t be re-hired any time soon).
Obama will promise to save them if they vote him in again.
Welcome to OBAMAWORLD, right next to ZOMBIELAND.
The unemployment office is probably at Skyline Center.
Remember, vote Democratic in November on your way to pick up your unemployment check.
They should just force retire those eligible. That would cut 1/2 the government population and just not rehire. People running the government are so dumb. There are people in their 70’s still working. Get them out. They stop others from getting promotions. It is unbelievable how many 60 and 70 year olds that are not retiring and just continue to work.
Zer0 is the problem and needs to be retired immediately.
Hate to inform you of this, but you reach your peak cognitively (intelligence, rational thinking) between 50 and 65. How old are you? ;)
If they would honestly clamp down on fraud, waste, and abuse, there would be no money problems in DOD.
But nobody will ever do that.
The more he speaks out about saving these defense jobs, the more he alienates the left who would love to see the DOD cuts made.
Where's the popcorn?
I am younger than 50. The problem with keeping people on the rolls is that is destroying the debt.
I think the generation currently leading needs to go. Obama is a baby boomer. Time to step aside and let Gen X fix the mess.
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