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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a GS 15. If we get swhutdown I won't be able to pay my $800.00 student loans next month. I have no kids but forget the Infe3rtility treatments... I won't have any kids if Congress keeps this up.  My husbands salary will cover mortgage and whatnot. We have savings but I also resent using them because of tea party nonsense. [/quote]

This feels circular to me.  The career federal employees come across as intensely political and 99% behind Obama, which makes the Tea Party types even happier to shut down the Government.  I don't know when this stops, but I think some recognition on the part of federal employees that they also work for people with whom they disagree politically is part of the equation.  [/quote]

I worked for DoD.  Politically, my agency was like the country- pretty evenly divided, with maybe a little leaning to the right.  We did have plenty of TEA party types.  They didn’t hide their disdain for big government and the DC “swamp.”  This was ironic on so many levels.  Bureaucracy and waste was only the “other” agencies.

They looked down on everything in the name of taxes.  Without taxes, how could Uncle Sam pay their triple dipping salary?  I met so many GG14s, with military retirement and often military disability.

I believe retired military are entitled to every benefit they earned.  What got me, was often “disability” was actually retired soldiers, sailors and airmen getting a little sedentary, getting a little heavy and had nothing to do with their years of being a desk jockey in the military.  [b]I knew retired military who got 100% disability for being overweight and the ailments that come with it- high blood pressure, bad knees, sleep apnea, type 2 diabetes.  That they get the same disability as a soldier who was sent to the battlefield and saw killings, lost friends, maybe lost limbs, doesn’t seem fair.[/b][/quote]

It's not fair.  I appreciate our service members and their service.  This might be unpopular, but I think if you are 100% disabled, you should not be able to work.  Too many receive 100% disability, have government jobs, play softball, go on hikes and golf on the weekends.  This doesn't sound disabled to me.

p.s. I know you can't see all disabilities, but the system is abused and needs fixed.[/quote]

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