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Topic: Pentagon issues furlough
notice as ‘sequester’
budget cuts loom |
Pentagon issues furlough
notice as ‘sequester’
budget cuts loom
Washington Post, by Ernesto Londoño & Anne Gearan
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/20/2013 4:20:28 PM
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| The Defense Department officially notified its 800,000 civilian employees on Wednesday that they are likely to be placed on periods of unpaid leave, as the Obama administration scrambled to deal with congressionally mandated budget cuts set to kick in next week. “There is no mistaking that the rigid nature of the cuts forced upon this department, and their scale, will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force,” Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta said to employees in a memo issued Wednesday.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 2/20/2013 4:23:49 PM (No. 9187391)
Well Leon, pickup the bat-phone, and call the White House, and tell him to start dealing with the GOP to stop the sequester...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 2/20/2013 4:24:25 PM (No. 9187394)
Notice how they work to place the blame for Obama´s idea on Congress?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
steveracer, 2/20/2013 4:32:11 PM (No. 9187421)
Readiness my foot. A lot good readiness did for the 4 dead in Benghazi.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rosewater, 2/20/2013 4:42:05 PM (No. 9187458)
Gosh this wasn´t a WH pentagon coordinated thing was it? That would seem cynical.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
woodsman, 2/20/2013 5:19:08 PM (No. 9187525)
Fine....if that´s where the white house chooses to cut - He owns that too
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ben Around, 2/20/2013 5:29:09 PM (No. 9187547)
It´s all a lot of lies aimed at the no-information voters to convince them that is the fault of the Republicans and George Bush.
As usual, it will probably work.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
erv, 2/20/2013 8:02:46 PM (No. 9187766)
The furlough days are less than their vacation days. Just take un-paid vacation then no worry about losing any readiness. Many employees have taken un-paid vacation when their companies have been in financial peril, I know that I did.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pearlyjo, 2/20/2013 8:26:09 PM (No. 9187792)
I don´t recall the Democrats or this president wringing their hands when a lot of Americans (myself included) were placed on furlough several years ago.
To the government strokers I say, go get a second job. That´s what I had to do and I sill have it to this day.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 2/20/2013 10:06:16 PM (No. 9187948)
Government employees seem to feel themselves to be quite above having to do without the cutbacks the private sector has had to dealt with last 3 years. Furloughs are temporary - deal with it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
100percenttexan, 2/20/2013 10:31:33 PM (No. 9187993)
I wonder if Panetta, a civilian employee of the Pentagon, received his notice.
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