Life During Sequester, the Survivors Speak

[Luissa]

I am glad you guys think it is funny. I fly into four major airports in a week.

 

[Oddball]

So what?

Airports, along with their hordes of Thugs Standing Around, will still be there and the bureaucrats will be available to hector you and rifle through your shit.

 

[Luissa]

So what?

Airports, along with their hordes of Thugs Standing Around, will still be there and the bureaucrats will be available to hector you and rifle through your shit.

I know, but they say lines will be longer and there might be delays. Just let me wallow in it for a minute. Lol
I already have a 2hr45min lay over in Chicago. I am sure I will have to get to Laguardia two hours early when I fly home, if not earlier.

 

[editec]

Sequestration will not effect every region of the USA in the same way.

Virginia, Say Hello to the Sequester​

Already, Governor Bob McDonnell has warned the commonwealth risks falling into recession.

"The automatic sequestration reductions mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011 are already having a significant adverse effect on the Commonwealth," said the governor in a letter to President Obama and the state's congressional delegate. "When fully implemented, they could force Virginia and other states into a recession. Sequestration-mandated reductions will be implemented with no regard for relative national priorities. "

McDonnell isn't exaggerating. Both state population centers—Northern Virginia and the Tidewater region of eastern Virginia—depend heavily on federal dollars. Fairfax County, for example, is home to more than 20,000 federal employees, to say nothing of the contractors and consultants who make their living from congressional spending. Likewise, Hampton Roads (otherwise known as "Tidewater") is home to the largest concentration of military assets in the United States, including the nation's largest naval base and a massive naval shipyard.

What's more, there are nearly 90,000 Navy and Pentagon civil employees living in Hampton Roads, while private contractors employ more than 40,000 people. Each branch of the military is represented in the area and, overall, nearly one quarter of the nation's active-duty military personnel is stationed in the region. According to the Norfolk Department of Economic Development, nearly one out of every two dollars in the $81 billion Hampton Roads economy is dependent on either the military or the defense industry. The area's universities and research institutions, which receive millions of dollars in federal funding, will also feel the impact; the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, for example, might lose resources as a result of overall NASA sequester cuts totaling $726 million.

 

[tinydancer]

Don't worry Luissa.

The TSA will just haul out more crippled kids to pat down. Your line will keep moving. More crippled kilds will cry.

 

[Ernie S.]

We had some problems with roving bands of Democrats, but we told them we had high capacity magazines and a trigger grip on our rifle and they scattered.

Make sure you have shotguns aimed at all your doors.

Damn! I hope that wasn't Jill Biden who came to the door about midnight.

 

[Oddball]

Sequestration will not effect every region of the USA in the same way.

Virginia, Say Hello to the Sequester​

Already, Governor Bob McDonnell has warned the commonwealth risks falling into recession.

"The automatic sequestration reductions mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011 are already having a significant adverse effect on the Commonwealth," said the governor in a letter to President Obama and the state's congressional delegate. "When fully implemented, they could force Virginia and other states into a recession. Sequestration-mandated reductions will be implemented with no regard for relative national priorities. "

McDonnell isn't exaggerating. Both state population centers—Northern Virginia and the Tidewater region of eastern Virginia—depend heavily on federal dollars. Fairfax County, for example, is home to more than 20,000 federal employees, to say nothing of the contractors and consultants who make their living from congressional spending. Likewise, Hampton Roads (otherwise known as "Tidewater") is home to the largest concentration of military assets in the United States, including the nation's largest naval base and a massive naval shipyard.

What's more, there are nearly 90,000 Navy and Pentagon civil employees living in Hampton Roads, while private contractors employ more than 40,000 people. Each branch of the military is represented in the area and, overall, nearly one quarter of the nation's active-duty military personnel is stationed in the region. According to the Norfolk Department of Economic Development, nearly one out of every two dollars in the $81 billion Hampton Roads economy is dependent on either the military or the defense industry. The area's universities and research institutions, which receive millions of dollars in federal funding, will also feel the impact; the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, for example, might lose resources as a result of overall NASA sequester cuts totaling $726 million.

Boo-fucking-hoo.

Now, I guess those who've been sucking at the big gubmint teat will have to go through what the rest of us out in The World have been dealing with the last 4+ years.

 

[Ernie S.]

I am glad you guys think it is funny. I fly into four major airports in a week.

With any luck, they'll furlough the TSA and you'll breeze right through unmolested.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Don't worry Luissa.

The TSA will just haul out more crippled kids to pat down. Your line will keep moving. More crippled kilds will cry.

That's unfair.

That kid LOOKS suspicious!

 

[Oddball]

Better see to it that she won't be able to smuggle any more than 4oz of tears onto the airliner!

 

[Ernie S.]

I am glad you guys think it is funny. I fly into four major airports in a week.

With any luck, they'll furlough the TSA and you'll breeze right through unmolested.

Or you could wear a burqa. You'll be bumped to first class.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This thread was so fun once...

 

[Oddball]

This thread was so fun once...

Be funny or BONKBONK!, bad poster!

 

[Luissa]

I am glad you guys think it is funny. I fly into four major airports in a week.

With any luck, they'll furlough the TSA and you'll breeze right through unmolested.

I wasn't complaining about the molested part, just the line.

 

[hortysir]

I am glad you guys think it is funny. I fly into four major airports in a week.

With any luck, they'll furlough the TSA and you'll breeze right through unmolested.

I wasn't complaining about the molested part, just the line.

In that case, can I be next in line???

 

[Rozman]

I had some bad gas today...maybe brought on by sequesteritis....

 

[Amelia]

Folks seem to be getting nervous. Tempers are flaring.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Folks seem to be getting nervous. Tempers are flaring.

Yup everybody's getting butthurt reeeaaaaal quick. There are 10 billion threads about the damn sequester...

And all I wanted was one little positive one about survival in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that is the aftermath of it

 

[hortysir]

I have all mt fishing gear ready for when I have to catch my own food

 

[Amelia]

My cats have barricaded themselves in the basement with all our supplies.

They'll let me in when they get done with the dry food and try to open the cans.