On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > "furloughed" is a euphemism for Fired? >
Not really....my dad was furloughed on two separate occasions many years ago, but was brought back both times just as promised. > On the other hand, the American people voted this house in...so they > must agree with their policies. > The Tea Party wouldn't be there otherwise. > Why do people make this leap? I think it would be more correct to say that: A majority of VOTING Americans agreed with the general idea that over the next few years, we needed to reign in spending, and thus voted in people who promised to do such. I doubt you'll find very many Americans who support shutting down our government at this juncture just to try and make a point. As usual, a party gets voted in, think they have a mandate, and fuck it up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335952 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
