We should RIF 4000 Military before public safety suffers.

14th Amendment Section 4
>>>>The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law<<<<, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, >>>shall not be questioned<<<. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

This is totally misleading, as is the linked article. Reading this, one comes away with the impression that the dispute is about “restricting subsidies to small airports.” That’s just a tool to try and force the Senate to do the House’s bidding. This is really about union-busting.

The National Mediation Board approved a rule-change last year allowing workers in the airline and railroad industries to form a union with a simple majority. Under the old rules, workers who didn’t vote had their votes counted as a “no” vote. House Republicans inserted into the long-term FAA funding bill a provision overturning the NMB rule-change. Representative John Mica, a Republican from Florida, who introduced the current short-term funding bill, admitted that he inserted the restrictions on subsidies to small airports to “send the Senate a message that we want this finally resolved.” Furthermore, of the thirteen airports that would lose subsidies under this provision, one is in the home state of Senator Harry Reid, one is in the state of Senator Jay Rockefeller, and one is in the home state of Senator Max Baucus—the first in the Senate Majority Leader and the latter two chair Senate Committees which have jurisdiction over the bill or parts of it. Coincidence? Clearly not.

So, in a scenario all too familiar with the Republican class of 2010 (both at the federal and local levels), this is not about what it seems but yet another an attack on the rights of workers to unionize.

Our government is nothing more than a bad joke at this point.  The whole system needs an overhaul so drastic, I fear we have have gone beyond the point of no return.  We are slipping down the drain and who knows when we hit bottom or what the bottom will be.