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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are those being furloughed furloughed because they don't provide valuable services/possess unique and valuable skillset so they get some time off instead of losing their jobs? Or they do provide value services but got days cut anyway? [/quote] You can't easily do layoffs (reductions in force) in the government without using some complex formulae and looking across entire agencies. And furloughs are not targeted at individual workers or their individual skill sets. It's targeted at usually the entire workforce. So the good ones and the bad ones get their pay reduced. The rules about how to enact sequestration cuts were capricious and arbitrary. They were designed to be so that Congress wouldn't be tempted to not set the budget. The only people that fooled was Congress. Anyone else could see that we have such a bunch of lily-livered political hacks that let Fox and MSNBC talking head BS turn them into cowards that we knew that any kind of sanity and compromise would never happen. I wish there was some way to recall Congress - all of them en masse. They are the ones with no skills and not doing the basic job they were contracted to do. [/quote]
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