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To: Le Chien Rouge
BOO F__’in HOO!

I don't delight in your misfortune Le Chien Rouge. In fact, I pray that you and others escape more of it. But perhaps you should not delight in the misfortune of others.

What is being meted out by Washington DC these days by both parties is simply immoral. They are rewarding the guilty, while punishing the noble.

Many federal workers facing furloughs are veterans

"If the federal government is forced to furlough civilian employees in the event of sequestration, the burden will fall heavily on a population that Congress and the White House have vowed to support: veterans. More than two out of five of the approximately 800,000 Department of Defense employees facing furloughs are veterans, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday. “Forty-four percent of them are veterans,” Carter told the House Armed Services Committee during a hearing on the potential effect of sequestration on the military. ”Very soon we’re going to have to furlough the great majority of them.”

And, many of those veterans are disable. Many were maimed, mentally and physically, sacrificing more for this nation than the vast majority ever have, or will.

51 posted on 02/21/2013 6:43:02 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Sky Pilot,

I am not taking any delight in your misfortune. I don’t want to see anyone lose their job or take a pay cut. However did you take anyone to task on this website when millions of Americans in the private sector were being laid-off or had their pay cut? Many FReepers were taking delight in their misfortune. Many of those millions were also veterans. I hate to see medical or training staff having to take a 20% cut, but honestly, do you believe that the military will be destroyed if the thousands of clerks in the Pentagon have to stay home one day a week?


54 posted on 02/21/2013 6:58:23 PM PST by wrcase
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