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.

And yet boots on the ground identifies this as a prop. To the GOP, persons in uniform (cops, firefighters, or servicemembers) are props to be used as a backdrop, and ignored just as quickly when they are in need (such as after 9/11 or after returning home from service overseas and needing specialized care for PTSD or other ailments).