Three weeks until Christmas, and guess what Harry Reid's giving away?
To union workers, no less?
By Moe Lane Posted in Abject Coward | Congress | Contemptible Little Man | Grinch | Harry Reid | Union Busting — Comments (10) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
That's right: pink slips (Via Don Surber; see also this).
WASHINGTON -- Some U.S. Army civilian employees may get pink slips before Christmas because Defense Department funding hasn't been approved, a defense spokesman said.
President George Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have asked Congress to pass a $178 billion defense funding bill without including a timetable for troop withdrawals from Iraq. The House passed a $50 billion measure that including a time line for redeployment of troops, but the measure stalled in the Senate.
The employees would not be laid off until after Christmas, but some contracts require 60-day notification if the layoffs will be longer than 60 days, Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said in a news release.
"OK, family circle time, kids. Christmas is... well, Christmas is going to be a little tight this year. We're going to be OK, though: it looks like Mommy can get a new job over at the mall and I'll just have to stay at work a little bit longer each night for a while. But we all have to pitch in, OK? OK."
Merry Christmas, Mister Reid.
Moe Lane
PS: I don't suppose that any of you Democratic Presidential candidates feel like explaining why you're not ashamed of what your party's doing to good union people? Believe me, I'm not planning to hold my breath until I get an answer.
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Reid just finished assuring us that no layoffs would be necessary...that there was plenty of money all the way up to March 1.
This is lies!!!!! LIES I say!!!!!!!!!
posting guidelines being what they are these days, I'll quote Forrest Gump:
And that's all I have to say about that.
haystack's 12th:
Conservatives (and Presidential Candidates especially) shall offer no aid and comfort to the opposition in times of legislative conflict (and ensuing political campaigns).
I can not disagree more.
DoD is fully funded till march on all appropriations.
This is just a political stunt. As for long run - yes there is major problem DoD will be incapable of muslin 1 billion/week in funds. Doesn't matter how many people they choose to lay off. Congress also limits amounts of money that could be shifted btw appropriations.
If the claim is that it's fully funded, but only for peacetime efforts, then that's basically a lie, because restricting things to full peacetime funding alone is a stab in the back of our troops who are abroad.
And I do not mean by that, "I disagree with what you said." What I mean by that is "I have no idea what you are trying to say." What word were you trying to use that came out as "muslin*?" Is this a slang term, where you are?
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
*Interestingly, the etymology of that word - means a type of fabric - goes back to Mosul (which is of course in Iraq), where I suppose is where that particular fabric was first weaved.
.....that 'Pinky' Reid (his actual nickname at one time) is going to be the one responsible for so many 'pink slips'...bitter irony
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
good, reliable Democrat block voters regardless of how the Party treats them.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
but not the rest of them. While the leadership might be barking moonbats, the members are about 60/40 Democrat, certainly better than the 90/10 split for the black vote.
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the other third is covered by Champ Bailey.
hits me very close to home. Yes, I'm one of those EVIL people who work for the military (contract, not DOD civilian).
This isn't something that can be done with no one getting hurt. People's lives are being messed with here, and it's not the one living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This point needs to be hammered on daily.
Harry Reid, I'd love to look you in the face and ask, "why are you playing politics with my livelihood? If you're for the 'common people', why are you hurting them with this act?"
Sorry. Just really galls me that trying to score political points is more important than people's jobs.
'mispellers of the world, untie!'
We saw it when the idea that this would happen if no bill passed was first raised.
Mr. Reid will just blame the President - that it's his hatred for union families that is to blame. I suppose that his answer is that we lay off a few members of central command. Or maybe the SecDef himself should just leave town. It's a crap argument of course - Dingy Harry didn't bother to indicate which non-union workers were "dispensible" to the Pentagon who could go without pay.