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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 04:01 PM Mar 2013

I Wonder How All The GOP Federal Employees Feel Now.

You can be sure a lot of federal and state employees voted for Romney and GOP candidates. If you are a federal or state employee and vote GOP it makes about as much as offering your own child to please the gods in a culture that believes in sacrificing to the volcano gods.

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I Wonder How All The GOP Federal Employees Feel Now. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Mar 2013 OP
Every one of them is saying ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2013 #1
Read this yesterday OhioChick Mar 2013 #2
Many many civil service employees are dems, or independent. I know I was and many southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #3
I work for county government and yesterday I was upaloopa Mar 2013 #4
they should voluntarily renounce their pension and health care in a show of party unity :-0 nt msongs Mar 2013 #5

OhioChick

(23,218 posts)
2. Read this yesterday
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 04:05 PM
Mar 2013

“I am a registered Republican. However, I blame the Republican Party for this,” said Gregory Russell, a 48-year-old federal firefighter at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Russell calculates he’d lose about $1,200 a month – about 20 percent of his pay – if he gets furloughed.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/28/184471/as-sequestration-nears-federal.html#storylink=cpy

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
3. Many many civil service employees are dems, or independent. I know I was and many
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 04:08 PM
Mar 2013

of my friends were. I have relatives who are both contract and civil service and they are stressed just like everyone is.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
4. I work for county government and yesterday I was
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 04:09 PM
Mar 2013

in a meeting were the budget was being discussed. We have right wing managers here too. Someone mentioned the block grants that won't be funded if sequestration happened and there was nothing but denial in their tone.

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