All,
Like it or not, the base a very large part of the economy down here. With all this talk about furloughing the federal workers 20% of the days from April until at least the end of September (thus effectively reducing their pay by 20%), this could have large impacts on the economy down here. With 20% less pay, these workers still have their monthly bills which they must take care of, so pretty much the money to eating out, shopping for non need items, real estate, etc. will be the first of the belt tightening measures. This means businesses around here will have to cut their costs (thus let some people go or tell them to work less also). This will happen longer than the furlough as people will drain contingency funds and will have to build those back up. This could also mean people going into foreclosure making the housing market down here taking a hit. To put it more simply, even though you might not think the furlough will effect you because you don't work for the federal government (or contractors), this furlough will most likely hit you in some way also.
So where I am getting to. They most likely don't read many of their e-mails but we need to keep correspondence with our congress critters. Remind them that they serve us, not their party. We need to keep pressure on congress. Most of all we need to be willing to dispose of the leaders that don't work at the next election (primary or main election). We need to not have a short memory when the elections come.
Like it or not, the base a very large part of the economy down here. With all this talk about furloughing the federal workers 20% of the days from April until at least the end of September (thus effectively reducing their pay by 20%), this could have large impacts on the economy down here. With 20% less pay, these workers still have their monthly bills which they must take care of, so pretty much the money to eating out, shopping for non need items, real estate, etc. will be the first of the belt tightening measures. This means businesses around here will have to cut their costs (thus let some people go or tell them to work less also). This will happen longer than the furlough as people will drain contingency funds and will have to build those back up. This could also mean people going into foreclosure making the housing market down here taking a hit. To put it more simply, even though you might not think the furlough will effect you because you don't work for the federal government (or contractors), this furlough will most likely hit you in some way also.
So where I am getting to. They most likely don't read many of their e-mails but we need to keep correspondence with our congress critters. Remind them that they serve us, not their party. We need to keep pressure on congress. Most of all we need to be willing to dispose of the leaders that don't work at the next election (primary or main election). We need to not have a short memory when the elections come.
