1 *tunes up world's smallest violin*

2 Sally Struthers? Let me get my checkbook out.

3 Funny....I haven't noticed a thing.  Not a thing.

4 Has anyone placed a call to Bono?

5 If I really cared, and I really don't, I'd try to call a DOD help line and see who answers or how long the wait it.

6 HaHa, if it were up to me, 2/3 of those fine people would be seeking employment elsewhere. I'm losing 50K on my house. I could give two shits about the plight of the federal worker.

7 A woman was whining on CSPAN this morning because she and her husband were both likely to be cut back to 4 days a week from 5.  Meh, she should call when she's been unemployed for a few years.

8

>>>>Funny....I haven't noticed a thing. Not a thing.

 

1] Ben's Dump has been cut!

2] Drew's post is shorter than usual!

 

Next thing you know, there'll be less content!

9 My BIL contracts to the Coast Guard in DC, after retiring from them a couple years ago. Been afraid to ask what he expects to happen.

10

Hold on, I'm feeling something...maybe it's the effects of sequestration!

Nope, just gas.  Carry on.

11 FWIW the sequester contributed to me having to find new work after this May.

12 Sledgehammer of budget cuts?

Is that what the handmaiden of torture uses?

13 Foo, who spent her career at the State Department, I pity the Foo who work

14 Oh no, I think my kids school is losing a teacher. Oh wait, my kids go to private school, LIB.

15 Foo Bucking Hoo, Jenny!

16 I hate the government machine that oppresses our country with massive waste and perpetual fraud and graft. Cutting it is a moral imperative. But these are real people, and they are faced with losing their jobs. They could be unable to pay for their house, their food, their basic needs. That doesn't hit them any less seriously that it would a factory worker, a farmer, or an entrepreneur. We are all God's children. We are all created equal. Let's keep that in mind when rolling out the snark.

17 It was supposed to snow here today, but so far nothing!! Sequestration... it's the new global warming

18 Still for it though. Cuts will be hard and deep eventually, or just a simple collapse.

19 OSP, sorry to see you taking a hammering on the home sale.

20 Lord Barack donkey punches the American taxpayer for great justice!

21 12 Sledgehammer of budget cuts? Imbued with +1 SCOAMF'ing

22 I just saw the Asst Undersecretary of Agriculture on M Street cleaning car windows. I don't know about you, but a spoiled federal workforce + a minuscule drop in income + massive purchases of firearms/ammo by federal agencies = Rise of the Zombie Bureaucracy

23 We have zombie North Koreans here in Chicago...no, wait, it's just Pat Quinn squinting.  Carry on.

24 Screwd up a good joke because of a text message. Damn! Sucks surfing on a smartphone.

25 16 I hate the government machine that oppresses our country with massive waste and perpetual fraud and graft. Cutting it is a moral imperative. But these are real people, and they are faced with losing their jobs. They could be unable to pay for their house, their food, their basic needs. That doesn't hit them any less seriously that it would a factory worker, a farmer, or an entrepreneur. We are all God's children. We are all created equal. Let's keep that in mind when rolling out the snark. Maybe Obama shouldn't have added all those jobs to the rolls.

26 OSP, sorry to see you taking a hammering on the home sale. Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 01, 2013 10:06 AM (4Mv1T) It's all but 20K of our equity. Praise Jesus we are not upside down. I wouldn't allow the misses to buy a big money house cause I had a feelin what was on the horizon 5 years ago. It was a pretty big fight by our standards. She has relented but I dare not say I toldja so.

27 Nice post Drew,

Tax revenues left after paying out credits and withholdings over liability are the lowest in the modern era, I posted a link at the morning round up Gabe posted...

we reduced federal spending by ~1/80th...if the nation can't bear that break it up and let's start over.

28 6 OSP,


the funny thing is from a raw economics standpoint they'd be doing society more good in all likelihood being Wal-Mart door greeters...

especially the regulatory agency employees....

29 an unnecessary reminder of a political system that seems unable to solve problems, This IS the fucking solution.

30 I love the MFM stories today - "Here's what you need to know about the sequester". Basically you're all going to die, it's the Republicans' fault and they want you to die but Barry is trying to save you

31 Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2013 10:11 AM (1Jaio) The real fun starts after 2014 when they retake the house. Then they will have no scape goats. Then maybe, just fucking maybe, people will realize it was the donkey dick in their ass the entire time.

32

Is Sally Struthers out of the drunk tank for DUI?

33 Maybe the Feds should take a break from buying up all the ammunition...

34 16 MikeJ,

Deal with the bad actors in the civil service for a few months and get back to me....

not being a total dick either...

they gave two fucks about the private sector getting asshammered and were QUITE vocal in loving them some choom for the most part.

You sowed salt in the fields of the prouctive US economy civil servants empowering marxists and activists....

reap what you sow.

35 Due to sequestration, Ace will not be able to post until 2pm. I'm pretty sure sequestration is a type of hard liquor.

36

I love the line about "worst of all, a dramatic change in the perception of federal work".

 

Yes they were always real people (my Dad was a career federal employee as a civil engineer working in various federal agencies).

But Federal (and state) civil servants  have been cosseted beyond effin' belief.  Time to wake up and smell the coffee in the real world.

37 Pain is good (If GOPe doesn't fold) It's really the only thing a liberal understands. Pain.

38 31 Cajun carrot,

I am ~60% certain they don't retake the house...

even if they did if Mexifornia has proven anything it is that even a single republican elected is to blame bud...

39
Obama's half-brother runs for governor in Kenya

"Malik Obama is running for a governor's position in Kenya's nationwide elections on Monday. The 54-year-old Malik Obama hopes to become the first governor of Kenya's western county of Siaya. Malik and Barack Obama have the same father but different mothers."


Are we sure this guy is Obama's brother?


"He asked an AP Television News freelance cameraman to contribute to his campaign."


We're sure.

40 Screw 'em.  It's uber-blue Fairfax County and they probably voted for TFG.  Send them to work in the ammo factories where they'd be producing something useful.  .22 LR would be nice.

41 These folks have been deliberately insulated from the real economy the rest of us have been experiencing for the last five years.

They'll be fine. *We're* cut to the bone and nearly at the last of our bread, but they'll be okay for years yet.

42 As just about the only person in this area who doesn't get his paycheck from the Feds, cry me a river. These are mostly very nice people who have been completely insulated from the real world. Even the "Republicans" that live here like to deride the "tea baggers," as though people who actually think the federal government should confine itself to a narrow scope are absolutely bonkers.

43 Maybe a p-shop of skinny Barry as Atlas struggling under the massive Globe of Sequestration will illustrate Teh Pain, you guys

44

You know, I feel sorry for federal employees.   Not all of them, obviously, but the ones who actually go to    work every day,   do their job,      then go home    at night prepared to come in tomorrow and do it again.      We have several of them who post here, in fact, on a regular    basis.      These are the people who understand that they are paid BY THE TAXPAYER, and that the best way to insure they do NOT get cut is to be the best    and most effective    at their jobs.      Even then they know they aren't guaranteed a job anymore than someone in the private sector.      These are not the people wailing about health insurance and vacation time,   but    they're too often lumped in    with the dipshits who are.  

 

I'm a state employee, so I hear it all the time, too.   But I'm also first in line to criticize the idiot    staties      who are complaining and acting like dumbass, spoiled brats.       (Don't get me started on the teachers.    DO NOT GET ME STARTED.)          Nothing makes me more disgusted than self-aggrandizing arrogance;   I don't care WHO says it.

 

The     idiots who bitch and moan and complain are by no means the majority,   but since they're the noisiest,    and since they prop up the MFM's narrative    of Sequestermageddon,   they're the ones who get any screentime.           So   I    want to take a moment to say thank you to the public employees who actually DO take their jobs seriously, who don't view them as some sacred cow sinecure, and who try to make life in our bureaucratic society just a little bit easier for the rest of us.   Hopefully it's THOSE people who will keep their jobs, while the slackers and assholes    get kicked to the curb.

 

A girl can dream, can't she?

45 DJIA is down 35 points from its totally unjustified high.

35 points! Everyone panic!

46 Due to sequestration, Ace will not be able to post until 2pm. I'm pretty sure sequestration is a type of hard liquor. Posted by: mugiwara at March 01, 2013 10:13 AM


I'm have sequestration mai-tais  later.  I had planned to up the rum content by half a shot, but I'll only be increasing it by a third.  I'll never get drunk at this rate.

47 It's cold outside, I blame sequestration.

48 Obama will ensure that sequestration will do as much damage as possible to DoD (already started the process  with Hagel) and succeed in blaming the Repubs for it all.  A compliant media will trumpet his attempts to save the country even though blocked at every turn by the evil Repubs. 



Of course, the more people observe Boehner in action, the harder it is for anyone to believe the repubs are competent or intelligent enough to win a pillow fight, much less a fight involving principles and that legislation stuff.



A party that seems to have adopted "There are no hills worth dying for!" as its motto, doesn't exactly inspire those who might like to be in their ranks!

49 March 1st and it's still snowing. Not enough to accumulate, just enough to turn the road surface to salt slime. Temp 19 degrees, gray, but a sometimes lighter shade of gray. Winter continues for another 6-10 weeks depending.

Meanwhile Federal employees are pointing out that life is uncertain for them, incomes are falling, and they will enjoy three day week ends for a prolong period of time. Meanwhile the U6 measure of unemployment is 14.4 percent, not counting people no longer even marginally attached to the labor force. Labor force participation is the lowest rate since roughly 1980.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey (http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet)

50

Longtime Northern VA resident chiming in; "it's about time".

What very few outside of the area understand is the incredible pressures exerted on every aspect of life by the bloated expansion of the Federal presence.

The continual ratcheting up of Federal dollars (BTW, the "no pay increase for past 3 years = top grade, A1 Bull***t. Federal employees have had increases in income all along) has driven up housing, food, & daily service prices to the point of insanity. My oldest will be moving to Texas soon; an "official" estimate is that his $67K salary here will approximate $110K there...

Mantua is a perfect example - mostly modest mid century homes, most w/decent yards selling for three quarters to one million dollars?? Seriously? FWIW, this is also the region of leased near luxury/luxury cars and high levels of consumer spending - "personal savings" is a foreign concept...

The Sequester is having an impact here - I know people who are quite worried - to the point of it impacting their personal, day to day lives, and that does upset me; that we have a mandarin class so convinced of their own value that any negative action is perceived as a personal affront.

Perhaps it's a location thing, but I chuckle @ Monty's dooms & similar, as I see it already gone...

51 I have a sore   throat.     I blame      sequestration.

52 Maybe it's time for them to get a second job in the private sector. Welcome to the party, pal.

53 "Clearly we need to hold a concert for emergency relief and get Sally Struthers working on a commercial." If we can get her working on a chicken leg in the same clip, I'd pay to see that.

54 Sequestration cuts mean that I still have to use my toothbrush that I bought last month.

Not fucking fair!

55 When I drove by the local VA hospital this morning they were wheeling patients out into the street Death Race 2000 style to try and make ends meet in preparation for sequestration cuts.  And yesterday I noticed the mailman was only had one extra magazine for the MP5 he was carrying.

It seems the Sequester will truly be the end of days.

56 The most amusing part of the sequester is that it is going to be very, very difficult for the Obamas to take their usual luxury vacation trips on Air Force One while the sequester is in force. Not even their flunkies could defend that very well. Imagine Michelle cooped up in the White House for a few months, unable to go to Spain, Aspen, or her other usual haunts. Imagine how she will start treating Barry. Comedy ensues!

57 My foot fell asleep.   I blame sequestration.

58 "They could be unable to pay for their house, their food, their basic needs. That doesn't hit them any less seriously that it would a factory worker, a farmer, or an entrepreneur. " Believe me, they'll be fine. Larry the Farmer who lives on in a ramshackle place that his family has owned for a century really feels the pains of a depression. The worst that happens is that these folks have to sell their houses (and though property values took a dip, they're actually going UP around here now) and live in a smaller condo somewhere in Arlington.

59 What blows my mind is people getting upset about missing 6 days of work over the corse of 6 months. If you are making 50k+ a year and can't miss 6 days of work because you will loose *sooo muuch moooneey* then you're just a dumbass. I say do like the LAPD and BURN IT DOWN!

60 Ah, the sweet tears of blubbering (blubbery? ) government employees.  If one day off a week is good, we should try two. Or all of them.

61 Somehow, sequestration has to be Bush's fault. I'm sure Top Men are working on that analysis right now.

62 The residents of Fairfax county are entitled to a lifetime of gravy!

Y'all are just a bunch of right-wing credentialists.

63 One year today. Man I miss Andrew Breitbart.

64 Sequestration cuts mean that I will no longer be able to post ONT Wife Pics.

65 I have a    smudge on my glasses.     I blame sequestration.

66 'bout time the beltway crowd feels some pain of what they brought. (and I'm in the beltway crowd.)

67

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 01, 2013 10:15 AM (4df7R)

 

I'm in local government myself. I don't bitch and moan when people whine about lazy entitled government workers. I can pick a dozen employed by my agency right off the top of my head whom if fired would increase total productivity.

68 The FAA would only let the Byrds get seven miles high.

69

We do not have nearly enough National Park Service historians. We have a National Park Service historian gap.

70

Sequestration causes genital warts

71 Next thing you know, there'll be less content!

Posted by: Bigby's Baby Fist at March 01, 2013 10:04 AM (3ZtZW)

We have content?

72 I'm in local government myself. I don't bitch and moan when people whine about lazy entitled government workers. I can pick a dozen employed by my agency right off the top of my head whom if fired would increase total productivity.

Posted by: mugiwara at March 01, 2013 10:20 AM (W7ffl)

 

 

Oh trust me, so could I.   But they're never the ones who get fired, are they?   It's always the ones who do any work who get laid off.  

73 Despite sequestration, SpaceX Dragon is in orbit!

74 Is it time to break open our neighbor's heads and feast on the goo inside? Or is that tomorrow?

75 Yesterday I came out to Oakland, CA to assist our daughter's leaving California after spending four years in that paradise and underemployed for the last two. We are redeeming our own and striking out to the east, toward home. We drove sourh on I-5 through the upper part of CA's Central Valley where water for irrigation was cut off for the sake of the Delta smelt. Mile after mile of devastation and ruin that has to be seen to be believed. Democrats truly hate this country and its people. BTW, there seemed to be a lot of U-Haul equipment on the roads, especially on the road heading east from Bakersfield.

76

OT:  Today's Adam Carolla Podcast is well worth the listen for his grilling of the loathesome Gavin Newsome.

77

Need some Moron financial advice.

 

Couple extra bucks laying around.  Put it to retiring my car loan (which doesn't have far to go, and is pretty low interest) or buy some silver while the price is down?

78 It's not going to hit me until 3rd order effects occur, but my (Military - Civilian workforce) Brother is taking a 10% pay cut by virtue of a one day furlough every two weeks. Luckily, his shop isn't shrinking to lose personnel , yet. Other than that, crickets....

79 Fuck.  Them.

80 Maybe the Feds should take a break from buying up all the ammunition...

Or layoff the entire DHS.

Hmm market tantrum picking up speed (50! points now), perhaps that's not the joke to make.

81 Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and here the sequestration of the women...

82 Just got a speeding ticket.

NOT happy.

83 It's time to quit calling the sequester a cut which it is not.  It is a planned decrease of 2% in planned government expenditures for the coming year which, of course, makes everything Obaman and his minions said full of shit.  It's as if you had intended to spend one dollar next year but instead you spent 98 cents.  Big fucking deal.

84 Oh man! Today my dog died, I was diagnosed with cancer and a rogue meteor destroyed my house! MUST BE THE SEQUESTRATION!!! FAHRRUVNSDFNKJGD!!!!!111!! I'm Hurting because of the Sequestration Seriously Guys!

85 My coffee isn't as strong this morning.  CLEARLY sequestration.

86 Woke up and it was snowing outside but only in the yard of the Fed guy across the street. It may be from his shredder. Cat caught a two headed mouse. DOOM!

87 Flow, flow my tears...

Poor dears, losing one day of pay a week. Perhaps they could try a second part-time job to cover the gap? The way so many of the lower classes must? Could they endure such a sacrifice?

88 I can pick a dozen employed by my agency right off the top of my head whom if fired would increase total productivity.

Racist!

89 Anybody remember AMERICATHON? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqYoB6BLOMw

90

Oh trust me, so could I. But they're never the ones who get fired, are they? It's always the ones who do any work who get laid off.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 01, 2013 10:21 AM (4df7R)

 

 

Ain't that the truth...

91 I just checked and it seems that so far internet porn has been unaffected by sequestration.

92 Just got a speeding ticket.

NOT happy.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 01, 2013 10:23 AM (UypUQ)

 

Because of sequestration.

93 Hm. So just outside my work is a portal to some nether realm from which obscene nameless gibbering horrors are trying to claw their way out. Looks like I'll have to move my car to another spot before lunch time.

94 Ban Assault Sequestration!

95 VIA Bloomberg Consumer Spending in U.S. Climbs Even as Taxes Hurt Incomes What could go wrong???

96 Ain't that the truth...

Posted by: mugiwara at March 01, 2013 10:23 AM (W7ffl)

 

It's the squeaky wheel complex.      The bad workers are the ones who'll sue if you fire them.    The good workers will just find another job.

 

*rolling eyes*

 

This is why I could never work in HR, private or public sector.   I'd be guilty of murder within the first    month.

97 My phone sucks. I blame sequestration.

98

This morning, when I took the kids to school, I passed two different construction crews.  They were all standing around doing nothing.  I *know* it's because the sequester means they had to cancel this morning's concrete deliveries.

I also passed a car with an ugly woman driving.  The sequester meant she couldn't get make up for her face. 

It's a horrible day. 

99

Just got a speeding ticket.NOT happy.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 01, 2013 10:23 AM (UypUQ)

 

Tell them you can't pay.     Why not?     Sequestration.

100 Sally  is  fatter  than  me - and  I'm  a  fat  ass!  And  I  slept  with  Penny  Marshall.

101 I think Breitbart would  have  smiled   knowing he has an anniversary on Sequestration Day.

102 Puny mortals: fear the Sledgehammer of Sequestration! It's powers to destroy outstrip those of Mjölnir, the hammer of Thor!

103 I would like sequestration to cancel my program's     federal site visit in April.   Go, sequestration!

104 All the birds ...just died...

105 95 Cajun Carrot,

it gets worse....

http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/

106 But these are real people, and they are faced with losing their jobs. They could be unable to pay for their house, their food, their basic needs. That doesn't hit them any less seriously that it would a factory worker, a farmer, or an entrepreneur. We are all God's children. We are all created equal. Let's keep that in mind when rolling out the snark.

Posted by: MikeJ at March 01, 2013 10:06 AM (Us4M2)

 

I worked as a contractor at an Air Force base many years ago and encountered many dedicated, hard-working civil servants. Good for them and good for us. We need dedicated, hard-working civil servants. That said, the manufacturing base in my little town has suffered massive layoffs and closings over the last several years. Many people I know are working contract jobs or multiple part-time jobs or retail or restaurant jobs paying way below what a family needs to prosper--no retirement benefits, no 401K, no healthcare, nothing. Throughout all of this, public sector workers in state and federal government--especially federal government--have continued to enjoy salary increases and the like, and many who are about to be laid off have (or should have) substantial savings upon which to rely until they find work again, unlike so many in the private sector who have been pink-slipped without notice.

 

Welcome to the real world.

107 I think Breitbart would have smiled knowing he has an anniversary on Sequestration Day.

Posted by: Roy at March 01, 2013 10:26 AM (VndSC)

 

Agreed!  

 

I bet he's up in heaven right now, laughing and slapping his knee as he watches the little lefties run around screaming.

108 Paper cut. I blame sequestration.

109 Quebec: Canada's Florida. (See the sock link.)

110

Sequestration seems to have hit the NC school comouter system - I was trying to apply for a job at a school nearby (administrative) but I have to create an account with the state-wide system first, and after trying two different browsers on two different computers, I cannot get the website to work properly. Since the opening closes today, it looks like I will miss out on a job opportunity because the IT people cannot build a functioning website. Bah.

111 Because of sequestration, da police no longer give out warnings.

Seriously, TWO YEARS since I've been pulled over.  You'd think that would be enough grace period to get a warning.

112

It's the squeaky wheel complex. The bad workers are the ones who'll sue if you fire them. The good workers will just find another job.
*rolling eyes*
This is why I could never work in HR, private or public sector. I'd be guilty of murder within the first month.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 01, 2013 10:25 AM (4df7R)

 

You're in NH, right? They force you to pay off a union that only gives a shit about the lazy whiners like they do here in NY?

113 Some federal workers do useful things that are well within the ambit of the constitution. Some are worthless hacks. Most are simply engaged in unnecessary tasks. I feel bad for families that have to go through a rough patch but let's be real: it's time for the feds to suffer as much as the rest of us, at least for a little while.

114 It's snowing in Chicago. I blame the sequestration. And global warming. And racism. And homophobia. And the rich not paying their fair share.

115 It was FAST too, within three minutes I had been pulled over, asked for lic./reg, given a $90 ticket, and set on my way.

116 My corn hole hurts, I blame sequestration.

117 The sequestration made me read this post!

118 I heard Rory McIlroy had to drop out of the Honda Classic because of sequestration. And he's not even American!

119 Seriously, TWO YEARS since I've been pulled over. You'd think that would be enough grace period to get a warning.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 01, 2013 10:27 AM (UypUQ)

 

They probably made shortfall on revenue for February, so they're going to give out more tickets in the start of march to make up the difference.

 

The beginning and end of every month, I try to drive like a saint.   That's when they'll getcha for the stupidest, TINIEST violation.

120 Since I am electronically filing my taxes today, my tiny little refund will be delayed because of the sequester.  I think the optic fibers are being slowed down because we have no money budgeted to keep them unclogged.  I expect this won't be posted for at least another ten minutes because of the optic fiber clogs.

121 I'm not dead yet.

122 The media didn't swallow today. I blame sequestration.

123 for the record, I'd have no problem eating a race horse

124 You're in NH, right? They force you to pay off a union that only gives a shit about the lazy whiners like they do here in NY?

Posted by: mugiwara at March 01, 2013 10:28 AM (W7ffl)

 

You betcha!    I love receiving my SEIU newsletter.   There's nothing more satisfying than    ripping that piece of shit into teeny, tiny pieces and flushing it down    the toilet.     Bunch of fucking bastards.

125 Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor - black -  child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi...Now , because of Sequestration I took a job in a traveling circus and FOR THE LOW PRICE of One Dollar, I'll guess your weight, your height, that spot on your shirt and your sex.

126

"Perhaps they could try a second part-time job to cover the gap"

 

You're missing the entire point.

To you, me, & the next guy that makes perfect sense. To the 2nd or 3rd generation Federal Worker (and yes, it's common to see 2/3/4 generations) the deal is that in return for their hard work and sacrifice, we, the recipients of their labors, will gladly cover their needs and wants. And no, I'm not kidding - read the comments @ the WaPo link.

My oldest went thru FFaX & VA schools and works in drilling & pipelines - very lucrative work these days - but had an interesting perspective @ a class reunion in that the Gov't employees (mostly women, BTW) have a rather haughty attitude towards the rest of the world...

In other words, the time for real cuts is long past.

127 What's funny is that Google (30,000 employees) and Apple (10,000 employees) have enough cash on hand to easily cover the sequester shortfall, but the federal government is so inefficient that they will have to FUNlough even more than 40,000 to make their point that nobody shrinks the federal government.

Obama governance on display.

128 A personal sequestration horror story, I had to pee very bad this morning so I had to get out of bed.

129 I sear to Gaia, I just saw a couple of dogs and cats moving into a condo - they're gonna be living together!

130 for the record, I'd have no problem eating a race horse Err ... TMI.

131 Sequestration is a dog whistle. We're all thinking it.

132 Due to NASA DHS budget cuts, Khan has stolen the Genesis Device !!

#SequesterApocalypse #OnTheSceneSequesterReport

133 I really worried for the folks in N-VA - from the beautiful horse farms in Loudoun Co with Obama signs on the white fence at the end of the lane to the brand new townhouses is Arlinton with the Jim Moran signs in the windows.

134 120 Polynikes,

well that and add in that the Federales are running a fine line on cash on hand so to speak...

Goddamned they are idiots...

GOP get your head out of your ass and learnt eh power of "no"

No I am not taking a vote on the violence against women act dumbass tell reid to pass a fucking budget

No I really don't give a fuck about gun control tell reid to pass a budget

over and over and over....

GOP you were sent up there to get the goddamned economy stabilized do your job.

135 170 million people in my town lost their jobs this morning.

136 It's snowing in Chicago. I blame the sequestration. And global warming. And racism. And homophobia. And the rich not paying their fair share.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2013 10:29 AM (1Jaio)

 

But mostly   the    sequestration.

137 Night watchman at Los Alamos laid off!

#OnTheSceneSequesterReport #SequesterApocalypse

pic.twitter.com/36h3QC9rn0

138

I was looking forward to a trip to Carson City for technical evaluation and Factory Acceptance Testing of a couple of automated fusion welders for aircraft engine remanufacturing, but due to sequester only the process guy will go.

Squaw Valley and all of that snow.

Meh. I'm sure he can handle it. Too bad he doesn't ski.

139 My coffee   is cold.   Damn  you,  Sequestration!

140 You betcha! I love receiving my SEIU newsletter. There's nothing more satisfying than ripping that piece of shit into teeny, tiny pieces and flushing it down the toilet. Bunch of fucking bastards.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 01, 2013 10:30 AM (4df7R)

 

You got the purple people beaters, huh? I've got CSEA. But we're all AFSCME AFL-CIO, right brothers and sisters?

141 SO some federal workers in Fairfax, VA are going to have to cut back on expenses or maybe even have to look for a new job. What difference does it make?

142 What blows my mind is people getting upset about missing 6 days of work over the corse of 6 months. If you are making 50k+ a year and can't miss 6 days of work because you will loose *sooo muuch moooneey* then you're just a dumbass. I say do like the LAPD and BURN IT DOWN! The wife will be losing 1 day of pay per week, 2 days per check and 4 days per month...and for someone in the low GS band, it's going to hurt. But still being employed is the most important issue for us.

143 "... Mantua, a leafy section of Fairfax County where houses sell in the $700,000 range ..."

Do they really think that this looks like America ?
Been to Baltimore recently ?

144 115 It was FAST too, within three minutes I had been pulled over, asked for lic./reg, given a $90 ticket, and set on my way.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 01, 2013 10:29 AM (UypUQ)

Paid on the spot with a credit card? Did you get to see the really cool data terminal in the car, with the thermofax printer and instant data access and credit card processor? Somebody has to pay for that ya know?

I've paid my fair share ($10 fine, $110 court costs and processing fee)

145 #OnTheSceneSequesterReport #SequesterApocalypse

DOOOOMMMM !!!!!!

http://tinyurl.com/bkrp95q

146

"But these are real people, and they are faced with losing their jobs"

As is everyone else. Why are they "special"?

147 Burn, baby, burn.
It's a fiscal infernoooo,
burn baby burn.
Burn that mutha down....

148 They're all hay burners.

149 My wife and I may not be able to afford to take our 17 annual vacations separately.

150 You got the purple people beaters, huh? I've got CSEA. But we're all AFSCME AFL-CIO, right brothers and sisters?

Posted by: mugiwara at March 01, 2013 10:32 AM (W7ffl)

 

 

*fist upheld*   Word.

 

*brings fist down in face of SEIU idiot in the next office*

151 The beginning and end of every month, I try to drive like a saint. That's when they'll getcha for the stupidest, TINIEST violation. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 01, 2013 10:29 AM (4df7R)Good to know.  Its actually not so much the money that bugs me, is that I'm going to be overly conscious about my speed on my way to work on that highway... meanwhile, everyone else on the road is hitting 65-70.

Also, the steering wheel blocks my view of the odometer  a consequence of sequestration) .

152 Its a crisis of KITTEN proportions!

153

106But these are real people, and they are faced with losing their jobs. They could be unable to pay for their house, their food, their basic needs. That doesn't hit them any less seriously that it would a factory worker, a farmer, or an entrepreneur. We are all God's children. We are all created equal. Let's keep that in mind when rolling out the snark.
Posted by: MikeJ at March 01, 2013 10:06 AM (Us4M2)

 

The  taxpayer  doesn't  exist  as  a  slave  to  the  governement  employee.    Taxpayers  are  real  people  too,  who  have  seen  their  dreams  diminished  by  an   increasingly  overbearing  government  that  they  pay  for.  The governemnt workers can do like everyone does in the private economy:  Get another job.

 

No  Tears  Here.

154 121 Boehner's Marsh Spine,


I don't think he's caving champ and I think the liberals in the GOP on the hill were threatening to go cry on camera with the mules...

if that is the case and we can't hold on 87 billion fuck it I quit...

I will vote straight ticket D and speed up the coming civil discord by so doing....

I am sick and tired of New England holding America hostage.

155 Just saw a 'curious' tweet from Neal Boortz that the control towers were shut down in Boston & NY so air traffic is circling around Tulsa.
I guess this is a sequest joke.
There have been a lot of snarky funny disaster sequest tweets.  heh heh

156 @146:  Yes.  Let the "special" joined the unwashed masses.

Feel the burn......

157 "... Mantua, a leafy section of Fairfax County where houses sell in the $700,000 range ..."

To be fair, that's downright affordable compared to the cost of similarly sized homes in Arlington, Alexandria and the inhabitable parts of DC.

158 And it's not just the federal employees...what about The Kids, You Guys?! Seriously. The pop station I put on for my kids this morning featured a DJ reading an email from a woman who was terrified that her daughter's Early Head Start would be cut. This money-suck, for those of you who don't know, is free daycare for the indige, available from six weeks of age to 4 years of age---but only from 8 am to 1pm. It does not enable the kids indigent parents to work a full time job and get out of poverty, it isn't preschool (that would be regular Head start, which also doesn't work) but we still need to pay for it, You Guys!

159 I can no longer afford to tip caddies, though I am still able to offer them total consciousness on their deathbeds.

160 My annual subscription to the Cowboy Poetry Forum increased by $85 billion.  I blame sequestration.

161 The sun came up today. I thought it wouldn't because of the sequestration.

162 So. If the Foo shits . . . ?

163 The wife will be losing 1 day of pay per week, 2 days per check and 4 days per month...and for someone in the low GS band, it's going to hurt. But still being employed is the most important issue for us.

Posted by: cu'chulainn at March 01, 2013 10:33 AM (Vk2CC)

 

This.    The smart feds are teh ones who say, "Hey, at least I'm lucky enough to have a job."    It's only the complete IDIOTS who would have the gall to bitch about losing a day a week.   ARRGH,    I    hate them!

 

*MWR SMASH!*

164 Sequestration cuts mean that I will no longer be able to post ONT Wife Pics. Posted by: EC at March 01, 2013 10:19 AM (GQ8sn) ------------------------------------------------------- OMG! Now THAT hurts. Something must be done!

165 You have to admit, Obama drives the economy pretty well for a quadruped.

166 Posted by: sven10077 at March 01, 2013 10:32 AM (LRFds)

Expecting competence and coherence from the elected GOP is  a frustrating and futile task.  I keep asking myself, what rational principled thing have they done since the 2012 election and I keep coming up short.  I am no longer sure that they are worth voting for because at best they provide a very very gentle braking effect as we head over the cliff.

167 Hey, OSP, finished reading Amy Lynn, and I have a big-ass text file with the errors I found. Drop me a note at anachronda at hotmail and tell me whereyou want me to send it. I think you'll see why I was starting to get annoyed.

168

"The wife will be losing 1 day of pay per week, 2 days per check and 4 days per month...and for someone in the low GS band, it's going to hurt"

Want to know how I know you don't live in Mantua?

169 It's opposite day here in trainer's world.

My 2 1/2 year contract at a big Pharma ends today.

Monday I start another long contract at DHS.

Sequestration.  What sequestration.

170 And of course nasaspaceflight.com shits the bed just as a potential problem crops up with Dragon.

Damn you sequestration!

171 Eh, they sounds like 1 Percenters. Let's just kick 'em out of their homes and convert them into hostels.

172 Anybody  notice  that  when  the military  has  a  RIF  there is  hardly  any  notice  of  the  disruption  it  has  on  the  lives  of  Soldiers,  Sailors,  Airmen  and  Marines?

173 How EVER are we going to live with "just" 2011 Federal spending levels?

Its a disaster I tell you!

174 I drove by the county homeless shelter this morning, there were 7 million people in line, rather than the usual 23.  #sequesterification eleventy!!1!!

175

Seriously. The pop station I put on for my kids this morning featured a DJ reading an email from a woman who was terrified that her daughter's Early Head Start would be cut.

 

MWR HULK:

 

 

DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THE HEAD START.

 

DO NOT GET ME STARTED.

176 Anybody notice that when the military has a RIF there is hardly any notice of the disruption it has on the lives of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines?

Posted by: Minuteman at March 01, 2013 10:36 AM (dSE0q)

How many of them went to Harvard or Yale?

177 Anybody notice that when the military has a RIF there is hardly any notice of the disruption it has on the lives of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines?

Posted by: Minuteman at March 01, 2013 10:36 AM (dSE0q)

 

My son's infantry unit deployed to Afghanistan today. 'Disrupted' is as good of a word as any to describe how I feel right now.

178 Oh, look, spoke too soon. DJIA  back to Unchanged on the day.

TEOTWAWKI

179 To be fair to Head Start, I am starting to doubt the ability of people to raise their own children. Especially if they support Head Start.

180 I think we're all missing the bigger issue here. We're getting this bellyaching for a 1-2 percent cut in the budget. No one here thinks that represents a significant cut. They are laying the groundwork to make even the tiniest reduction in government spending to seem like a crime against humanity. If this is the reaction to this, then what the hell do we expect to happen when we try to propose real cutbacks?

181 Anybody notice that when the military has a RIF there is hardly any notice of the disruption it has on the lives of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines? Posted by: Minuteman at March 01, 2013 10:36 AM (dSE0q) Because the MSM ( read Liberals ) love the Military so much?

182 Posted by: troyriser at March 01, 2013 10:38 AM (vtiE6)

God Bless the both of ye!

183 Sequestration repo'd Pee Wee's bike.

184 You know, you just know, that when February's unemployment numbers are released, the slightest hint of negative performance will be attributed to sequestration, even though it had not yet happened.

185 166 Hrothgar,

and that is where we are...

Eric Cantor saying "pass this or it is civil war."

Yeah Cantor....

play that game bed.

186 Surely we can pass some legislation creating a federal program to assist these poor victims...

187

>>>Couple extra bucks laying around. Put it to retiring my car loan (which doesn't have far to go, and is pretty low interest) or buy some silver while the price is down?

 

If you're feeling adventurous.... consider investing in penny weed stocks. MJNA is in the medical marijuana and industrial hemp bidness, trading at ~0.29 currently. With recent passage of laws in states like CO it could go up a titch.

 

Go on, make money off of the stupidity of others.

188 95 VIA Bloomberg

Consumer Spending in U.S. Climbs Even as Taxes Hurt Incomes

What could go wrong??? Posted by: cajun carrot at March 01, 2013 10:24 AM

Nice little thing Bloomberg does there. Gas purchases count for consumer spending data and GDP, but they don't count towards inflation

Chocolate rations will be increased from 10 ounces per day to 8 ounces per day

189 Sequestration is hitting Wilmington, Delaware hard -- I'm getting reports of welfare mothers eating their children. We have officially gone full-Swiftian in the First State.

190 121 Posted by: Boehner's Marshmellow Spine

Honestly, the Pugs that voted to keep this meat bag as Speaker should be driven out of town on a rail. All of them.

191 I had to tell my wife to, in the future, only fire one shotgun blast into the air rather than the two I usually recommend.

192 Chocolate ration?

 You get a CHOCOLATE ration?

193 To be fair to Head Start, I am starting to doubt the ability of people to raise their own children. Especially if they support Head Start.

Posted by: JDTAY at March 01, 2013 10:38 AM (a0nis)

 

*SNORT*

194 Posted by: sven10077 at March 01, 2013 10:39 AM (LRFds)

You mean Eric "Quisling" Cantor?

195 171 Tesh,

one of the things we have to run on after the burning especially if Bam keeps blowing his union backers is pointing out how much scratch the feds make working cush jobs to free shit army....

especially more moral given how much glee Obama takes screwing the military.

196 More military base closings in the offering?
http://tinyurl.com/buz27ov

197 You get a CHOCOLATE ration?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 01, 2013 10:40 AM (qyv02)

 

To be fair, it's WHITE chocolate.

198 93 Hm. So just outside my work is a portal to some nether realm from which obscene nameless gibbering horrors are trying to claw their way out. Looks like I'll have to move my car to another spot before lunch time.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 01, 2013 10:24 AM (1ml8s)

Whoa, you found a shortcut to Dupont Circle! Awesome!

199 Deathstar II Left Half Completed #Empire Sequestration

200 Honestly, the Pugs that voted to keep this meat bag as Speaker should be driven out of town on a rail. All of them.

Posted by: Attila at March 01, 2013 10:40 AM (Cs2tJ)

We had a chance and the mandarins screwed us again!

201 Now that we have the sequester, Ace's movie reviews are going to have to be 3% shorter.

202 I can only afford to eat one dog per week from the shelter. Did I say eat? I meant rescue.

203 To be fair, it's WHITE chocolate.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 01, 2013 10:41 AM (4df7R)

 

Then it's not really chocolate.  Also, RAAAAAACIST!

204 To be fair, it's WHITE chocolate.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 01, 2013 10:41 AM (4df7R)

What's THAT mean?

It tans easily and can't dance?

205 194 Hrothgar,

yeah well a more polite nickname for him than mine...

you do recall i tried to defend him the other week when he went full tard on Amnesty?

206   On this day throughout the realm, bureaucrats face the opportunity and challenge of their careers: How to apply their share of the budget cuts to their best long term advantage; to repay this mutinous outrage with pain, yet not make a mistake similar to ICE chief of staff Suzanne Barr.    

207

Gozer arrives in NYC.   Hears    about sequester.     Leaves.     #StoriesFromTheSequester

208 Work for a defense company.  Laid off some people over the last two weeks in prep for today.

209 199 Zsasz,

Trap left unclosed-Sequestration...(thank the Force!)

//Ackbar

210

>>> I've got CSEA

 

Same here. Source of shame, really.

211 OH, the Humanity

212 I don't think pointing fun at people losing their job is a winning message. There's better ways to sell small govt. My PhD progress is in limbo because of it. Not complaining, but it's not funny.

213 I've had to cut my golf outing to five per week.

214 Utility costs rise while take home pay drops.
http://tinyurl.com/d2gl3gk

215 What's THAT mean?

It tans easily and can't dance?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 01, 2013 10:42 AM (qyv02)

 

It means that it's not REALLY chocolate;  it's sweet stuff masquerading as chocolate.    The    only ones who get real chocolate are the mandarins on Capitol Hill.   Bastards.

 

But otherwise, yes, it's terribly RAAAAACISSSST!

216 God Bless the both of ye!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 01, 2013 10:39 AM (Cnqmv)

 

Thank you. Blessings to you and yours, as well.

217 I just poured a bowl of cereal then went to the fridge only to realize there's no milk.  The sequester strikes again.

218 It's going to be 90 degrees in Cali today.

Global warming run amok due to sequestration cuts! We're all gonna die!

219

I've got CSEA

Fortunately with advanced drug therapies, many people with this affliction go on to lead healthy, productive lives.

220

Don't you understand,

Lady Obama will not be able to take her brunch in bed.

There will be no 3rd footman at lunch service today.

The president will have to jerk himself off tonight

 

I do NOT approve

221 Fortunately with advanced drug therapies, many people with this affliction go on to lead healthy, productive lives.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 01, 2013 10:44 AM (DrWcr)

 

lol!

222 http://tinyurl.com/cmwkc2n

Holder contemplating trading the G5 for a G3. (no, not really)

223 My eyesight isn't what it used to be, I blame sequestration.

224 I've got an itch right in my butt crack.

SEQUESTRATION!

225 We will still deliver in rain and sleet, but due to cutbacks, can no longer deliver in snow.

226 I was playing some b-ball outside of the school when a couple of guys, they were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood..   #StoriesFromTheSequester

227 Mooch says she knew she'd get flack for her appearance at the Oscars.

She knows she's an attention whore.

And she loves it.

228 163

This. The smart feds are teh ones who say, "Hey, at least I'm lucky enough to have a job." It's only the complete IDIOTS who would have the gall to bitch about losing a day a week. ARRGH, I hate them!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 01, 2013 10:35 AM (4df7R)

I am in the former category.  I experienced long-term unemployment during the post-dot-com bust years and it was the most horrible experience of my life.  I was working in the private sector at the time leading up to the dearth of software development jobs, too, so anyone here who believes I should resign my DoD gig in order to experience "what it's like in the real world" can suck the barbed cock of Satan.

That said, I support the sequester.

229 Due to sequester cuts, we can only guarantee you'll receive 97% of your junk mail.

230 Noodle ace post

231 212 HoboJerky,

uh no actually it's hilarious....

they nuked the fucking agricultural breadbasket of california to save a bait fish that only lived in a manmade canal and never existed in that "needs to be protected environment" prior to man....


They got their raises while the private sector imploded due to their interference because of PEU rent seeking and still they claimed more was due...

I'm sorry your PhD is hobbled but no these bilious activist sacks of shit in too many cases have earned every ounce of "terrible pain" they are getting.

I feel genuine sorrow for the contractors who are FIRED not furloughed a day a week or month and I KNOW and am friend with some decent civil servants but too many of these same civil servants as a whole refuse to even ponder at their harm to the national economy in their work.

No sympathy?

I have as much for them as their pet Lez Warren has for me.

232 All I know is, my three attempts to post comments on this thread all seem to have been sequestered! Mighty suspicious.

233 Posted by: sven10077 at March 01, 2013 10:47 AM (LRFds) When you say "they" you mean a subset. If 200,000 military really DID get laid off would their suffering be funny? No? Fuck off.

234 *nudges MWR* Aww come on...tell us about Head Start...don't you think that what those poor kids need is more time in government schools and more union teachers raising...er, teaching...them?

235 Where can I sign up to Adopt a Bureaucrat? "Manolo is assigned as the Asst Deputy Director of Trasngendered Primary Education Opportunities at the Dept of Edumacation...due to the sequestration, Manolo will be unable to go out to Thai Gardens in Alexandria. For just $183 a day, you can sponsor Manolo during the sequestration...."

236 Dear Michelle,

Evita and Elena loved the spotlight too.  So did Imelda when it came to her shoes.  Don't be Evita, Elena, or Imelda.

237 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 01, 2013 10:15 AM (4df7R)

I'm in local government myself. I don't bitch and moan when people whine about lazy entitled government workers. I can pick a dozen employed by my agency right off the top of my head whom if fired would increase total productivity.

Posted by: mugiwara at March 01, 2013 10:20 AM (W7ffl)

 

I'm a fed.  (Yes.  I said it.)

If I lost my job, the government would continue to function.  That is simply a fact.  What is ALSO a fact is that because this check pays my bills and my rent, I bust my ass for as long as it takes to get the job done.  There are three people in my shop (of 9) who come in, open solitaire and don't close it until they leave.  They're 14's.  When people bitch about government waste, it's those people I think about before I realize that I'm just as useless in the scheme of things. 

I hate that the first stable job I've had since I came off of active duty is the only job that will garner wide-spread condemnation from conservatives.  I hate more that it's true.  I DON'T need to be here for the government to function. 

My principles dictate that I quit my job and try to find something in the private sector.  My reality (location, rent, etc) dictates that I work as hard as I can in the job that I have.  I think being unemployed makes me a bigger leech than being a federal employee.  At least now I'm giving the taxpayers something in return for their investment in me. 

238 That said, I support the sequester.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's hi-cap assault diaphragm at March 01, 2013 10:47 AM (7xeJQ)

 

Good for you.   And I'm glad you were able to    get out of unemployment hell.   If our gubmint had more sane people working in it, maybe it wouldn't be so insanely out of control!

239 Sure, the pointless comment gets through...

240 I do have to say, traffic was lighter than usual heading to work today. So i'm liking it so far.

241 Necessary? sure. People's catastrophic predictions funny? Sure. Ordinary people who are working hard losing their jobs funny? No.

242 We are pleased to report that we are unaffected by the sequester, so be assured that the irradiation, hand-rape, and manhandling of toddlers and the elderly will continue apace.

243 Skynet was going to take over the US Defense network today, but had to scale back to just all DOD copiers and fax machines.

244 Sequestration cuts mean that I will no longer be able to post ONT Wife Pics.

Posted by: EC at March 01, 2013 10:19 AM (GQ8sn)
-------------------------------------------------------
OMG! Now THAT hurts. Something must be done!

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 01, 2013 10:36 AM (jucos)

Sorry TM!  I'll try to move some accounts around, but it looks like I'll re-running standby pics of Helen Thomas and Mooch instead.

245

In all seriousness you guys,  I'm still trying to figure out how no reduction in a departments budget means that you will have to reduce your workforce or other essentials.  Is inflation that bad that you cannot continue to operate on your previous year's budget? 

 

Someone lend me a cluebat 'cause I'm not seeing it. 

246 Woke up this morning the house was cold.
Checked the furnace she was sequestratinÂ’
Went out and hopped in my old Ford.
Hit the engine but she ainÂ’t turnin.

WeÂ’ve given each other some sequestration lately
It sure is stinkinÂ’
I blame the damn sequestration.  WHAT was I thinkin'
WeÂ’re the same sad story thatÂ’s a fact
One step up and two steps back

247

I'm in local government myself. I don't bitch and moan when people whine about lazy entitled government workers. I can pick a dozen employed by my agency right off the top of my head whom if fired would increase total productivity.Posted by: mugiwara at March 01, 2013 10:20 AM (W7ffl)

 

I'm a fed. (Yes. I said it.)If I lost my job, the government would continue to function. That is simply a fact. What is ALSO a fact is that because this check pays my bills and my rent, I bust my ass for as long as it takes to get the job done. There are three people in my shop (of 9) who come in, open solitaire and don't close it until they leave. They're 14's. When people bitch about government waste, it's those people I think about before I realize that I'm just as useless in the scheme of things.

 

I hate that the first stable job I've had since I came off of active duty is the only job that will garner wide-spread condemnation from conservatives. I hate more that it's true. I DON'T need to be here for the government to function.

 

My principles dictate that I quit my job and try to find something in the private sector. My reality (location, rent, etc) dictates that I work as hard as I can in the job that I have.

 

I think being unemployed makes me a bigger leech than being a federal employee. At least now I'm giving the taxpayers something in return for their investment in me.

248 >>>I don't think pointing fun at people losing their job is a winning message.

I guess it never occurred to these government ex-employees that having the worst boss (twice) in the history of the US could jeopardize their future security.

249 What gets me, Nearsider, is that there is absolutely no reason to lay off or even furlough people to cover that $44 billion or so that's being cut this year. Attrition alone should save bucks, not to mention all the nickel and dime stuff that each agency is responsible for.

250 You don't need more than 7 bullets that $700,000 house. Oh, and my give a shit meter is reading steady at zero.

251 Shit, I'm out of stamps.  Will the pain of sequestration ever end?  Stop the madness!

252

Is this the start of The Great Burning?

 

I  imagined it would be warmer.

253
If we can get her working on a chicken leg in the same clip, I'd pay to see that.

Oh, I've done that! Exclusive videos, and pictures are available to paid subscribers on my site, hotfreebirthcontrol.net.

254 Due to budget cuts, we must regrettably reduce our hours. In the future, homeless who rely on our services are advised to take their dumps on our doorsteps.

255

The old deal was that government work involved low pay in exchange for stability.  Now people seem surprised that with high pay (and everything else) they are getty instability.

 

Odd, eh?

256

Don't cry for the pretendian.  She just bought her fork-tongued self a $750K condo in the District of Corruption.

 

http://bit.ly/XLaXlt

257 All of this handwringing by the Federalistas ain't nothing compared to the Reagan 1981-82 search and destroy mission known warmly as "RIF".  Man, I can still hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth as one government program after another was defunded and offices closed.  Good times.

258 I just took a big ol' sequestration....looked in the terlet and, I swear you guys, it's a spitting image of Maxine Waters.

259 Attrition alone should save bucks, not to mention all the nickel and dime stuff that each agency is responsible for.

Posted by: Paul Zummo at March 01, 2013 10:53 AM (Ud5vq)

 

My boss (15) just took a job with another agency.  Two other 15s in the shop are shouldering her work and no one's missed a beat.

 

I suggested - in writing - not hiring a replacement and saving the $250,000 or so (salary+benes) that would have otherwise been spent.  I'm pretty sure I got laughed at.

260 If you work for the government, you can do noble things, but you must think of the citizenry first. I spent some time yesterday reading about the Righteous among the Nations, many of whom were low/mid level bureaucrats who at incredible risk to themselves saved the lives of Jews during the Holocaust. Even Hermann Goering's brother, who despised the Nazis, saved lives during the war. So there's that. When I was the military, I saw myself as a crusader who tried to punish the evil and free the virtuous. It required guile, recklessness, and deceit, but in the end I'm proud of what I did.

261 233 Hobojerky,

Hey guy my wife may well be one of the 200,000 wanna know the difference between your superhero SEIU PEU members and my spouse?

When Giggles did not pay her she had to go to work anyway.

I could give three fucks about your "approval" stud.

If conservative and "good" and I feely admit there are good ethical civil servants REALLY gave a shit they'd reform the beast instead they gain by it.

And considering my foster brother is an SES I know exactly what I am saying and have told him as much.

So having hobojerky PhD candidate interruptus angry that I am laughing at the caterwauling of the left and the union types themselves is not tooonerous.

The mules are winning power by demonizing "the evil rich" it is time to make the United States Government Worker every bit the star that the Bankers were made.

They want to play populist games we have populist games to play too....

sorry about your feelings.

You know when Giggles was playing chicken with my wife's wages I don't remember everyone here being up in arms.  I liquidated one of our IRAs to have wiggle room and called up Boehner trying to get him to stand tough.

Good luck with your defense of your PhD work, and I am not snarking...don't expect me to have the correct action WRT 87 billion in cuts emotionally held hostage to it.

262 Due to budget cuts, we must regrettably reduce our hours. In the future, homeless who rely on our services are advised to masturbate on our doorsteps. Pornographic photos will be posted outside the entrance for your convenience.

263 I heard a government employee on WTOP Washington the other day who said, "a couple of days off here and there and eventually they'll pass a bill giving us our lost pay. What's not to like?" Our business is really going to suffer from this, but Northern Virginia is nothing like it was when I was raised there. Besides, most of the damage to our business has already been done.

264 256 RushBabe,

exactly...

Lieawatha and her enablers the PEUs laugh all the way to the bank...this reduction in rate of growth is a joke...the grimness is a joke....

the whole damn thing is a joke.

Look outside your window if you are in 'flyover country" there's a good chance you see fallow production buildings caused in part by Federal interference....

save your sympathy for them.

Nice catch on her "living amongst the lowly" by the way...thanks.

265 And considering my foster brother is an SES I know exactly what I am saying and have told him as much.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 01, 2013 10:57 AM (LRFds)

 

What's an SES?

266
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." -- P.J. O'Rourke

That we now have a country where lots and lots of fools put all their trust in a lot of government and a lot of luck, pretty much sums up the problem.

267 If you are just laughing at the Union types, fine. But it's not FUNNY for the others.

268 146 & 153 - I never said government workers are "special." And I specifically said that cutting government is a moral imperative. We not only should do it; we must do it. That means firing people. But they're real people. They're at least seeing cuts in their take-home pay and are likely to see their jobs cuts eventually. They deserve our empathy, even if we're doing what has to be done.

269 Senior Executive Service (SES)
Very well paid government employees.

270 What's an SES?

Posted by: troyriser at March 01, 2013 10:59 AM

 

Senior Executive Services.  It's the government's equivelant to a Flag officer, created by Jimmy Carter.

271 Is it wrong of me to think of the sequester as another form of Social Justice?
In other words, our lives suck, and now yours does too.

272 Posted by: MikeJ at March 01, 2013 11:00 AM (Us4M2) HAHAHA you can't pay rent HAHAHA Seriously I'm all for cutting the budget, but the idea that we should be laughing at people while we work our way through cuts is fucking retarded.

273 247 Washington nearsider,

and not sucking up to you my wife has a civil servant in her office that gets heat from the union because he STAYS off the clock to get mission done...

and the whiner is a double dipper reservist who "wants us paid fair"

I know there's good members amongst y'all hell my brother is one.

The thing is even the DoD grid civil servants are costing the private sector too much....add in civil 'servants" whose entire mission is to fuck the economy...

yeah I am perhaps at times less than precise in my anger but the fact is that there are too many civil "servants" who misspell "servant" as "master"....

274

White House spokesman Carney claimed that they had no knowledge of any releases.
Secretary Janet Napolitano claims to have had no knowledge of the releases.

The ploy even has a name: the “idiot defense, “dumb CEO defense,” “dummy defense,” “ostrich defense,” and “Sergeant Schultz defense.”

... and they let these folks "play with guns"

275 It's 11AM on the East coast and so far the only conservative blog, other than the Breitbart sites, to remember Andrew on the first anniversary of his death is Redstate.

276 Due to budget cuts, we must regrettably shut off water to our restrooms after dark. As such, they will be unsuitable as actual toilers or public baths. Homosexual men, however, may continue to use them for the purposes of anonymous sex.

277 272 Hobojerky,

You're right I apologize to all involved, I will never forget the monument to the unemployed the civil servants had at the gate at Fort Polk...the burning eternal flame for the anxieties faced by the private worker....

it was touching....

the contractor is the one getting REALLY hammered not the legacy GS and SES workers.

perspective Hobojerky....


oh wait sorry it is time for another round of "the GOP must look like the Dutch Masters" painting all the time....

Civil Servants want more stability tell your fucking union to back the beter economic leader and back getting EPA under control and aiding US competitiveness beyond "hiring 100,000 teachers."

They cast themselves politically against me not the other way around.

278

Posted by: sven10077 at March 01, 2013 11:02 AM (LRFds)

 

The problem is that even the good federal employees realize they're not really necessary to accomplish the mission. 

 

I'd rather have hard chargers in the government TRYING to make things better than have them all go to the private sector, leaving the unions and douchebags and moochers running the show.

 

That's been going on for too damn long.

279

The Harvard Crimson rejects any idea of embracing of inclusiveness and diversity.

280 270 Wsshington nearsider,

Yup...he went that route rather than going after his O-6, because "the pay and benefits are superior and I have regional stability."

I understand and respect that decision but acting like the plight of the senior GS/SES circuit is the most tear worthy thing in creation is not living in reality.

WN I hope you weather the period of anxiety in the ranks well and land on your feet.

sven

281 The sun is shining a little brighter today. Tomorrow is Texas Independence Day. Keep Calm and Sequester On,

282 I'm with sven on this one.
There are indeed many good government employees now feeling financial pain.
I wish that on none of them.
But, I do not support a concept of the servants of the people being insulated from the financial pain of the people.

And truth be told, there is justa little bit of "F*ck you, see how it feels" involved.
But, just a little.

283 278 Washington Nearsider,

I don't know the answers.  Basically I think when the panic in the Democrat ranks in '94 calmed down they got to work creating this bomb.  The PEUs are a defacto money laundering machine for the democrats to create a shakedown carnivore economic thwarting machine.

Failing to acknowledge that is a worse sin than levity IMHO, and I know there are many ciivl servants who are trying to fight the beast of their union.

Keep your head up and to better days.

284 257, You mean this really happened once upon a time? Government was actually cut?

"Man, I can still hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth as one government program after another was defunded and offices closed. Good times."

//

Listen, as a state employee in the past we took 5% pay cuts 2 or 3 times and delayed paychecks every year around budget negotations. No big. Day off, most of it was taxes and such. I used to say to the whiners, "Count your blessings. There are a thousand people out there who would kiss the ground of your office if they could take your job."

285 212
My PhD progress is in limbo because of it. Not complaining, but it's not funny.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at March 01, 2013 10:43 AM (FsUAO)

***

That you are pursuing a Ph.D at all, let alone one that requires the federal government's budget be ever-growing in order to complete it, is what caught my attention.

286

I think the system corrupts people because there is no competition pressure. imagine...

 

I have five workers and only have enough work for four of them. I don't wanna lay Bob off cause he's a nice guy and i'll feel bad. Better to just make everyones load 20% lighter then everyone will love me as a boss.

After a while people get used to the new work load and it becomes 'normal'. If things later get busier, they hire a new person rather than increase the workload which would be mean.

The right incentive sigbnls are just not being sent to the employees. Most people will succumb to that over time. death by compassion.

 

287 267 Hobojerky,

Fine I hadn't read this I bear you no hard ill will and I am sincere in not liking that your PhD plans are being upheld.

That has got to suck I could not even finish my undergrad happily.

The union is the key, the people really being fired have my sympathy and prayers.  The folks who are leveraged trying to keep up with the joneses in that DC slamdance have my empathy it sucks budgeting with these jerks in charge.

The guy who said 'days off and a bill giving us back pay...!"


Yeah guy not feeling the least bit of sorrow for you.

288 I'm reminded of a story.

During jury selection, a prospective juror told the judge he could not serve on the jury because it would interfere with his job.  "Why?" the judge demanded to know, "Can't your boss get along without you for a few days?"

"He can and that's what I'm afraid of " replied the man " I don't want him to find out."

289 265 TroyRiser,

others defined SES for you but it is essentially a civilian shirt "General/Admiral" and there are SEVERAL departments outside the force led by SES that SHOULD be under DoD with the more economical and mission oriented military economics of employment involved.

He's in one of those jobs.

290

Sheriff Bart new schnitzengruben limit six instead of fifteen.

 

 

Lili Von Shtup hardest hit.

 

 

"Sequestered Saddles"

291 257 MRP,

My friend that is an ATC at Pope Air Force base hears horror stories all the time....

that union was legendary in the 'screw you pay me!' wars...

292 Fine I hadn't read this I bear you no hard ill will and I am sincere in not liking that your PhD plans are being upheld. Yeah guy not feeling the least bit of sorrow for you. Posted by: sven10077 at March 01, 2013 11:13 AM (LRFds) Ok I think there is some confusion: I don't need you to cry over my troubles. I just need you to know that seeing people be gleeful about people losing their jobs, kinda pissed me off. Union leaders and politicians can go screw, I'll laugh with you there since they are the root of the issue. I'll survive. I have plenty of marketable skills.

293 Where's the cake? Anybody bring cake?

294 My laptop's been running slow this morning.

295 That you are pursuing a Ph.D at all, let alone one that requires the federal government's budget be ever-growing in order to complete it, is what caught my attention. Posted by: Radeaminnit at March 01, 2013 11:10 AM (Xv7f/) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._research_funding.png Oh dear look at that growth!!! (I was funded by NSF btw, the not growing $5 B red chunk.)

296 What blows my mind is people getting upset about missing 6 days of work over the corse of 6 months. If you are making 50k+ a year and can't miss 6 days of work because you will loose *sooo muuch moooneey* then you're just a dumbass. I say do like the LAPD and BURN IT DOWN!

Posted by: Dave in MA***

22 days of work.  1 day a week for 22 weeks.  This is a 20% pay cut.  Nor are all DOD employees in the VA/DC corridor.  Dillhole.

297 292 Hobojerky,

and I was not offering my sympathy saying you did.

I types on the headline thread on the idea of "social pressure" on another topic.

I take no glee in economic pressure but try to keep perspective.

The farmers who were destroyed by EPA and the courts in california would kill to have lost only the % the civil servants keeping their jobs are weathering.

That to me is the fight.

best of luck whether you want me wishing it or not.

I want the horde to succeed.

298 296 Klawnet,

and your contractor "brothers" and 'sisters" got 100% nuked.

I dunno it has to suck losing 1/5th per annum but as your fellow "union brother" upthread explained...you'll likely get it all back lump-summed....

hell people were acting like I should be gracious that my wife would get her back pay for hours she had to work onsite without pay...

I was so impressed that when Barry won reelection I cashed out some options and have about 3 months pay in the bank to weather giggles next stunt.

I am not trying to be a dick to you and I understand if you don't answer but asking in goodfaith....

Given what SCOAMF was doing with the Military members of your workforce were you not the least bit nervous he'd play chicken with YOU?

Not being preachy I am trying to understand something about civil servant psychology.

299 I take no glee in economic pressure but try to keep perspective. Posted by: sven10077 at March 01, 2013 11:30 AM (LRFds) I'm fine. I just made a simple statement, that we shouldn't take glee(in most cases), and this was apparently enough for you to say you don't feel sorry for me losing work. I don't know where you come from, and maybe its the midwesterner in me, but that got my blood boiling. I can feel sorry for the negative effects of an action and still believe the action was Just. I'm guessing you do too, and that we are talking past eachother.

300 Looky here now, I live in fashionable good-taste zip code 22207. And I am not going to let these mean old Republicans make my house value fall below $1 million.

Not after I worked my butt off to move here as a youngster and pull up the damn drawbridge behind me.

F***ing easants. You think Washington Golf & Country Club dues are cheap?

301 299 HoboJerky,

I am very focused on the issue Hobojerky it is the midwesterner in me as well.

I watched the UAW blow up my town's auto sector and my entire region is in decline now.

Dayton Ohio.

I went back after 15 years of minimal presence and had to accept my home peaked in about 1982.

The PEUs are if anything worse and if they have their way there will be nowhere to migrate to here in the US to escape.

That is *my* whole fight now after the cold war in conservatism.

If I offered personal offense I apologize, I feel perhaps being overly generous to myself if you go back and reread the thread we were talking past each other "a bit."

My ire is focused precisely at the bad actors in the union protected class for the most part, although I do feel that because of the nature of the game for the employees that many good decent people who get it gain by the deeds of the bad faith actors.

There needs to be serious reform, and I am angry at the GOP leadership because they bargained away the late 90s gains trying to foster unity during the war's early days.

The GOP needs to be smarter, the TSA for example had in its charter that it was not to be unionized.

They now are, there is no such thing as a binding agreement with a democrat, and soon there may not be able to be a republic with them either for what is a republic but a binding contract between coalitions and the government and the governed?

302 No argument here. You're not my enemy. I would trade my job for liberty any day of the week.

303 No argument here. You're not my enemy. I would trade my job for liberty any day of the week.

304 I know our side is stupid, but can't they say 'Obama Sequester' every 5 seconds like the Dems say 'Bush Tax Cuts' even when Obama extended them with his signature, thus becoming his own? Serious You Guys, can we get that message repeated a few times?

305 Government workers anxious about ... effects of bashing
Boo. Freaking. Hoo.

Spend a couple of weeks in the dreaded private sector, then get back to me. Parasites.

306

Yeah, well, Uncle Sam only wrote the check for the range support contract I'm on through May. Rumor had been we were going to be cut today, as it is we have a little time.

After that, I am a veteran's unemployment statistic again.

307 Feel free to share you sequestration horror stories here. If the dead have risen, the North Korean have invaded or there's just general mayhem in your neighborhood because some day soon the federal government will have $85 billion less to spend, we want to know about it.

Still nothing to report.  Maybe it's happening but it's just not visible.  Could someone get them to raise the cut to $170B, so I can be sure I don't need glasses?

308 306

Why doesn't my italics button work?

309 BREAKING SEQUESTER NEWS
DUE TO BUDGET CUTS, THERE IS NO POPE ANYMORE
YOUÂ’RE ON YOUR OWN

310 We're not immune to the effects of sequestration here at the HQ So...this here smart military blog is actually sucking at the teat of Big Federal Government? what a bunch of carpetbagging, astroturfing ewoks!

311

"I feel genuine sorrow for the contractors who are FIRED not furloughed a day a week or month and I KNOW and am friend with some decent civil servants but too many of these same civil servants as a whole refuse to even ponder at their harm to the national economy in their work."

No sympathy for those leeches who get paid very well. If you really knew how the contracting gigs work you would understand that a worker being paid 80K a year is costing the taxpayer 160K -- the defense contractors need their cut as well.

So while you dance around the fire celebrating the gov workers pay cuts, who cost the taxpayer far less ponder your math skills when bowing to the contractors.

The contractors need to talk with their companies about sharing some of the profit they have collected to tide them over during the rough times.

Soup line is probably a few blocks away if they need help....

312 309 IRA Darth Aggie,

If you can convince the US Govt to cede military control to contract workers I assure you the Horde DoD complex would be thrilled to be able to do their jobs better and in the private sector...

a Private US Army would probably own Mexico...

313 310 Gotmine,

That friend is a double edged sword in a lot of ways...

the civil servant makes less take home in some cases but has a bulletproof pension, helathcare, and ancillary benefits package....

you want to turn this game into "profit motive evil" let's have that chat...

I am gonna counter battery with the evil of PEUs and the literal gun to the head of the taxpayer civil service unions have....

314

LOL - Drew is such a dumbass he thinks all federal workers work behind desks inside the Beltway.

News Flash bro - those CIA agents overseas hunting terrorists?  Yeah well - THOSE are federal employees, Drew.

Those folks who work morale, welfare, and wellness for our military stationed overseas?  Yeah well - THOSE are federal employees, Drew.

Intelligence ships collecting intelligence on nations like Iran and North Korea?  Yeah well Drewpie ... those are staffed by a LOT of federal employees.

You may think they get paid too much - you may think that, if they want a high paying job they should get out of dangerous areas and take a courageous job like you, Drew - sitting behind a computer monitor and growing your ass incrementally each day by flooding your gastric system with "Hot Pockets" - the food of CHAMPIONS!

But ... oh well.

315

"the civil servant makes less take home in some cases but has a bulletproof pension, helathcare, and ancillary benefits package...."

 

Acutally, they pay for the health care plans, their pension is not that much (60K last three years of employment after 30 years service equates to roughly 15K per year).

No matter how you slice it they fall far short of the 160K the contractor costs you.

316 and by the way NO there is no way in hell ANY worker "costs" the govt less the Govt pays those people with money taken FROM the private sector end of goddamned story, the entire crux of a minimalist controlled restrained government is to encourage private prosperity and to consider the govt "economy" a necessary evil....

EPA produces sweet fuck all and inasmuch as even ideally it should exist its mission has increased 90 fold...

the AGW cult could not exist without this monster, the civil service has been penetrated or created an unholy and self-feeding fusion between activist cults and its agencies to create a laundering loop for power en perpetual....

that there *are* things within the role of government I will not argue it is self-evident that the government should be trying to be an uninvited "silent partner" that picks and chooses winners and losers in the private sector based on regulatory fiat and rent seeking I can never countenance.

"no"...sorry the whole damn thing is too big.....people are fond of pointing at DoD and the Military and saying 'oh hell yeah there are LOTS of cuts to be made..."

Yes yes there are, and if you think the civil service on the non military side of the house is not if anything even more in need of pruning I have a bridge to sell you.

317 314 gotmine,

uh not in proportion to the private sector try again...paying in is not self-funding tiger.....

Glad to see we have our union rep here....

My father in law was a civil service retiree and a miltary retiree, my foster family was a civil servant and a librarian for a school.

Please explain to me how the civil service is the best deal out there from an economic standpoint and does not game the system because of its unholy power to self-fund politicians...

no really have at it.

318 @ Krulac:  My goodness! The way you describe it, the federal government payroll is 95% heroes working for a pittance and putting in 28 hours days.  You're looking through the wrong end of the telescope.

319

"Government workers anxious about ... effects of bashing
Boo. Freaking. Hoo"

This, X 10,000. "Empathy" and "concern" and "suffering"??

I've worked w/a number of Federal offices over the years, and I can count on one finger the # of times said units have expressed any of the above for those who pay their bills.

If that sounds "bitter" or "hateful" to you, then, in all seriousness, know this: I don't care.

It's well past time for the leviathan to be attacked, hacked, and cut to size. If that means that some cannot rely on it for income, so be it.

320 307 306

Why doesn't my italics button work?  
uh.. sequester?

321 313 Krulac,

and the nation would probably be better served reducing the size of DHS and the Intel corporation to a degree and putting those bodies in military shirts.....

nobody is denying the service a goodly portion of the civil service, they are however not wrong in pointing out the unholy machine that has been created where the very mechanism of our nation's governmental business the larger she gets the more she empowers the democrat party.

This nation deserves better than the Chinese Dynastic Eunuchs or mandarins thanks.

322 318 Jess1,

there are good people in that maze...

but it is time that "we little people" demand that those good poeple either aid the reform of that beast or help us wreck it and start over.

The Peggy Joseph hayride should end...

323 Obama just gave us all a 2 percent tax increase in January and told us to shut up and get over it. Now they want to complain about a 2 percent cut to their spending - shut up and get over it.

324 Oh goodie another post to slam us gov workers.

325 http://qkme.me/3t70py

326

"My father in law was a civil service retiree and a miltary retiree, my foster family was a civil servant and a librarian for a school."

 

We should be nix their retirement immediately as a prudent cost saving measure. After they are just gov workers and padded their nest their entire career. right? He will do fine with his mil retirement as the only income.

327 325 Gotmine,

yes of course that is what I was saying?

No but I assure you I KNOW you shed not a single tear when they altered Mil retirement to high three and are now discussing gutting it whole.

Honor the contracts sure but reform the game because for a civil service doing GREAT evil in the name of sustainability such as EPA it sure doesn't give a shit about its sustainability.

328 Also my father in law having been dead for  3.5 years...he gets by on nothing.

329 323 Talibill,

Check out the labor participation % sometime....

yeah I am betting a LOT of federal jobs could be underbid...

330 Actually, we operate on stamp revenues. Sequestrations and government shutdowns do not affect us. You should be totally enraged.

331

"No but I assure you I KNOW you shed not a single tear when they altered Mil retirement to high three and are now discussing gutting it whole.
"

I came in a year after they changed it to high three -- missed the cut by 11 months I think. 26 years later when I retired I still wasn't thrilled about that. I'd rethink what you think you know....

332 295
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._research_funding.png

Oh dear look at that growth!!! (I was funded by NSF btw, the not growing $5 B red chunk.)

Posted by: HoboJerky,


***

No single raindrop believes itself responsible for the flood.

333 Sequester? Never heard of it.
Stock market. Up.

334 Gotmine,

Quite I've seen your comments before...the civil service must of course be immune to changes in the economic condition of the country and i am certain is held by you to be compelled to empower the people who grow their ranks creating a feedback loop...

nope sorry.

Yeah honor your guys' retirement contracts...but as the military has had its retirement mangled 3 times already and is under pressure so to should the civil service face the same.

335

" to empower the people who grow their ranks creating a feedback loop."

Sounds good in a manifesto type document but ignores your role in unsuccessfully persuading enough citizens to vote in officials who will really change the system.

336

77Need some Moron financial advice

I advise investing in other precious metals....ie; Brass & Copper-Jacketed Lead .

 

337 Klawnet 22 days out of 260 days (one year of work) is not 20% if their pay. 26 days would be 10% and it isnt even that much. One out of five federal employees makes 100k or more a year, few make less the 50k (which is why I chose that number) So, I stay by my statement, if they can't take a less then 10% pay cut on 50+k a year they aren't smart enough to pour sand out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel. PS I am putting you in that catagory as well.

338

#336,

The 22 days will be taken over a 5 month period ending in Sep. Then we go into a new FY and unknown territory re further sequestration measures.

But since 10% is not that much I appreciate you offering ten percent of your income to help out the disadvantaged....

339 337 gotmine,

yeah because I am sure this time it'll stick and you guys won't get backpay

hey where's my fiddle I'll help you learn to sing country music

340 My beginning  attempt at the Commercial:

Federal Worker Mother:  Please Help!!! My children wont be able to go to private school, I will have to shop at Walmart or the Dollar Store, I will have to vacation in the US and stay at a Motel 6 and GOD forbid I will have to buy my coffee from McDonalds or drink Folgers.

Sally:  See these poor federal workers and children (Pan camera showing their children eating some processed non-organic fatty food (government USDA cheese is good, children must not be seen wearing A&F or Hollister clothing) and mother standing looking at the kids in horror and father sitting in his BMW with only a quarter tank of gas).

Federal Worker Mother:  I don't know how my children will be able to live.  I have to send them to public schools and I can't afford to feed them wholesome, organic, local farm grown produce that doesn't destroy the environment, but now I must feed them with food that comes from corporate, earth destroying places.  And their clothes.  They come from WALMART!!!!  (Mother Wails) I don't know what their future will be like.

Sally:  (Tear comes down the face).  If you can donate a little to help these poor federal workers, so they can be just like you.  For only $500/day, you can help feed one federal worker family healthy, local farm grown food, clothe them in proper clothing and send their kids to private school.

Federal Worker Father:  I used to be able to fill my BMW up and use Super Premium gas, but now I have to use regular unleaded, but my BMW needs Super Premium.  (Father breaks into unconsolable tears).

Sally:  Don't let them suffer so.....Please Help!!!  With your tax deductable contribution of $500/day, you can give this federal worker family peace of mind knowing that they wont have to struggle to get the proper food, clothing, and private education that they are entitled.

(Commerical Ends)

341 334 gotmine,

and sorta sidesteps your as a union member's power to change the goddamend money cannon...

I get it you give as much a fuck about the monster as i do about your plight...

so here we sit.

have a day

342 Generalities and a common sneer, citizen against citizen.  Isn't that what small, narrow-minded dhimmies do?  Isn't that what the Emporer-in Chief loves to sow? A little perspective, please, and some facts.   I work for the federal judiciary.  Yeah, the tiny 3rd branch of the federal government that costs 2/10ths of 1% of the total budget.  For those weak in math, let me help: the cost of obamaphones ate up half the judiciary budget.  No union for the courts, either.  We're all at-will employees.  Rightly so.  We don't get paid over time.  We get "comp time."  Like vacation time at the regular rate.  Which isn't that much.   I'm paid less than my counterparts in the private sector.  Why do I stay?  Because I love being part of the system that brings opposing sides together.  I don't like advocacy work.  Understand, I respect the people who do advocate for the parties.  I'm proud to be there to help facilitate all sides in resolving their dispute.
So, the realities of the sequester, for me and my coworkers:  One furlough day for each week of the sequestration.  That's a 20% cut in pay.  Fact:  the court's budget has been cut, not a decrease in the increase, but a real cut, for three years running.  They've let go of 15% of our personnel and our pay has been frozen for three years.  The sight of that GSA creep boozing it up in Vegas made me and all my coworkers sick.
Please recognize that there are some legitimate functions of the federal government.  I hope you can respect those of us who know who we serve, and I hope you know that we respect that service to our core.