Really wearing thin on the tea party line, Bachmann on TV insisting that the shutdown had to happen to make it clear they were serious about cutting spending. I'm sorry, any gov't shutdown will be political theater, nothing more. The dedication to theater makese m think that something is lacking. No debate was joined ever about meaningful changes to mandatory budget spending. Then the whole line about protecting our active duty people from this. Blow it out your butt. How are military people more special than public service or private employees? No money, no job, furlough the non-essential troops stateside, stop training, stop non-essential maintenance. I'm pretty sure that we'd be contractually obligated to serve, pay or not. Just pandering to a voting bloc, both military and families as well as the red, white, and blue voting bloc. Same reason we can't talk about medicare and other entitlements, got to kiss up to AARP.
I was active duty in '95 when we shut down, think I got paid late once, can't remember. Don't pander to me because I am in the military. Happens all the time except when you're throwing my absentee ballot in the trash. Screw the politicians that do that, the military is not a special class we worship when it suits.
