Potential Government Shut Down

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by saden1

You will be alright I'm sure, I wonder if the secretaries and janitors will be. There are a lot of low level government employees who will be hurting and I'm not interested in depriving them of a paycheck while paying military personal. The financial troubles of this country is partly due to the isolation of the military from any cuts and babying them at every turn in budgetary matters while throwing other government employees under the bus. Fck that!

1) Actually you have no idea what my financial situation is. Further, the secretaries and janitors which you mention are my colleagues and friends, so I'm quite sure that I know their lives better than you do. Making an argument based on personal finances of which you are ignorant is fallacious.

2) Your complaint about isolating the military from other cuts is a good one. As I said above, I advocate a drastic reduction in our military budget. But that is a systemic problem which requires changes in large-scale planning and financial infrastructure. Not paying military families in the short term, as you have advocated, does nothing to bring about this overall, long-term planning and infrastructure change.