re: #220 Anymouse

About a third of Federal workers are military veterans. A hiring freeze coupled with firing Federal workers is more conservative compassion to all us veterans they love to use as patriotic props.

I hate that phrase “boots on the ground.” They are people. I was not a pair of “boots on the deck.” I was a person who put my beating heart on the line at sea as an enlisted representative of the US Government.

Yep a lot of my former co-workers the winter i worked at DOI were vets. We were a mine safety administration but lots of vets go into the Feds because the Feds have veteran hiring preferences and for the same reason a lot of other people do, it’s stable and they provide good benefits.