My observations so far. The little guy is getting screwed. I work with one reservist who is a contractor on the other side, his 20% furlough paycut hit his bottom lone enough where he dropped the health insurance he was buying.
On base the grass is infrequently mowed. Except the golf course... Yet contracts that were probably in the pipeline are allowed to proceed, essential stuff like replacing the mini-mart parking lot or regrading the athletic field.
I see normal squadrons with barrier paper in the canopys, jets closed up and flown once a month. Meanwhile my unit is bugging me to come down because we have extra drill money, extra ADT money.
If a 2% cut has to be taken over half a fiscal year, just take 4% across the board and be done with it, anything else is political BS.
