Federal Civilian Firefighters on military installations worldwide are serving to protect the military members, families, and your tax payer assets everyday. We agree there is tremendous government waste in the federal budget. We believe that there are several opportunities to save money in the budget without forcing your firefighters and other employees to take a 20% pay cut through furloughs that will run from April to October. These furloughs will cause severely reduced staffing, which will make interior firefighting unsafe in both structure fires and aircraft fires. Not to mention our inability to provide Hazardous Material response and Confined Space Rescue responses. We will not be able to provide mutual aid responses to our neighbors because of our severely reduced staffing.
If federal employees are required to take furloughs and suffer 20% pay cuts, Congress (Senate and House) members and President Obama (the people who are responsible for the sequester and the resulting furloughing of federal employees) will "share the pain" by taking 20% pay cuts themselves.
Members of Congress and the President (due to their inaction) will take responsibility and in a show of solidarity and unity with the 800,000+ employees - who through no fault of their own will be forced to accept 20% pay reductions - will share equally in the pain and suffering that they themselves are responsible for.
Follow this link to sign the petition so the Presdient and Congress are forced to take a 20% pay cut also. It only seems like the right thing to do. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/sharing-sequestration-pay-cuts-wcongress-and-president/LLQCqKJb
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