Hope the republicans don't cave to that Liar!

[downtownv]

I'm practicing my greek, everyone repeat after me...

είμαστε βιδώνονται

Translation: We're screwed.

Yasou! Just like they are in Athens! Kala!
(only if you don't have ammo and clean drinking water!)

[ltxi]

I agree, cut government spending. That's the solution. You don't have to screw people to do that. This is ALL a farce. There are not any significant cuts here. It's al smoke and mirrors. The cuts could easily be made that do not impact people if this jerk wad of a president would make the effort to find them. But he wants to play politics w/ it so he can look good. Furthermore, the cuts are not cuts, they are reductions in automatic budgetary increases. So we are talking about people not getting raises, or given raises and having to lay other people off to give them. Either way, its the administrations choice and then they use it to try and make the other side look bad. He's a liar, period, end of story.

Second, regardless of your story and how your job scene has turned out, that is NOT a model, that's anecdotal evidence and it means nothing statistically. It may mean something to you personally, better job, better pay, etc...and that's great. But there are thousands, no tens of thousands, of stories that produce plenty of empirical evidence that the federal government, then state governments, then local (in that order of waste) are a vacuum of financial ineptitude and waste. Fact.

Again, take it the wrong way if you like, not my intention. Just shedding light on the discussion. As a government contractor, one really cannot claim to be free of the government as far as pay and claiming that you make more in the private sector than a gov't employee. That's apples and oranges. If you can make MORE money in your profession completely outside of government (i.e. not as a gov't employee and not as a gov't contractor) then you are the exception to the rule. Most positions in the gov't pay more than their private sector equivalents and the gov't almost always pays contractors more than that same contractor would make in the private sector. If the contractor isn't making it, their employer or an in between vendor is. I know whereof I speak.

As with my government masters, I make less than I could elsewhere....out of this business. Truth be, at an independent 70 I don't need nor do I want a job. I'm doing this because.... And I'm really tired of people picking on those who care and are covering our national asses just because they work for the gov't. Done here.