[married21]

Thanks for your post. I wasn’t aware of how much the DoD civilian workforce was affected.

[SkyPilot]

It is a 20% pay cut - even nurses and caregivers at military hospitals are affected. Even the nurses at Walter Reed caring for combat wounded are furloughed.

The lowly paid GS-05 mechanic is furloughed. These people work for this nation - they are not like the Food Stamp and SSDI takers. Yet, they are the ones punished.

There is also a huge, massive "brain drain" that has already occurred in the defense industry. Very skilled researchers and engineers have either left or are leaving.

The overall effect on the economy will be profoundly negative, not to mention the immorality of all of this.

Sequestration exempts Entitlements, but steals from those who get up each day and work for a noble cause.