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freshwest

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15. Whoa! Just had a thought... Drones are cheaper. The furlough is a scam to sell those things...

Thu Mar 7, 2013, 09:21 PM

Mar 2013

Drones aren't unionized, aren't paid any wages, don't get healthcare or pensions. The GOP is just making killing more competitive for their contractors...

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CNN Breaking: 60,000 federal workers responsible for securing borders to be furloughed [View all] Cooley Hurd Mar 2013 OP

There Goes the Neighborhood jsr Mar 2013 #1

NOW the conservatives pay attention steve2470 Mar 2013 #2

Thats the point. Avalux Mar 2013 #6

somehow I don't see the sequester lasting very long after this steve2470 Mar 2013 #7

Nightmare scenario for low info voters. Avalux Mar 2013 #11

GOP is probably happy that now they can hire cheap labor zbdent Mar 2013 #10

+1000. n/t. apocalypsehow Mar 2013 #31

Are you kidding... jonthebru Mar 2013 #39

ALL federal workers have gotten letters... annabanana Mar 2013 #3

Not sure. It was a breaking news banner on their site... Cooley Hurd Mar 2013 #5

What were they doing, making a human fence? lonestarnot Mar 2013 #4

Joe the Plumber will be there to hold off the invasion with his NRA bumper sticker. freshwest Mar 2013 #8

No sweat! Joe's got all the borders under control with his roaming truck and NRA RKP5637 Mar 2013 #12

My only concern is that some of his followers might not stop at that... Joe will stay in the truck. freshwest Mar 2013 #13

Whoa! Just had a thought... Drones are cheaper. The furlough is a scam to sell those things... freshwest Mar 2013 #15

Yep! Well might be what's going on. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2013 #18

drones can't search your luggage or read your passport. dsc Mar 2013 #23

But they can film everyone crossing and beam their location. The GOP only counts illegal humans... freshwest Mar 2013 #24

Yes they will nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #27

Quite true. There are bound to be some crazies that are going to do their RKP5637 Mar 2013 #16

Maybe their places will be taken by volunteers from churches and charities. postulater Mar 2013 #9

oh you got Jokes! Heather MC Mar 2013 #14

Cartman takes the job of border protection seriously. MindPilot Mar 2013 #35

My bad, furloughed not layed off. How many people do we need doing this? XRubicon Mar 2013 #17

The furloughs in some states are more than that in other agencies. INS is multi-state. freshwest Mar 2013 #19

I hope they all head for Arizona. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #20

Message auto-removed valiberal26 Mar 2013 #21

So how is the US going to maintain its sovereignty? alp227 Mar 2013 #25

Post removed Post removed Mar 2013 #26

Out of what? Retaliation for imperialism? alp227 Mar 2013 #28

Um, open borders with regulation, but no soveriegnty. Been here a week, this will be interesting. freshwest Mar 2013 #29

....and the republicans cheered. spanone Mar 2013 #22

Why don't we just take away their trucks and keep paying the people? ThomThom Mar 2013 #30

At least it won't matter. sofa king Mar 2013 #32

This gets fixed in the continuing resolution FarCenter Mar 2013 #33

The border will be fine. We've spent way too much money "securing" it anyway. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2013 #34

Borders going unsecured? Send in the drones! KansDem Mar 2013 #36

Oh not THOSE federal workers! Marr Mar 2013 #37

Heh. blkmusclmachine Mar 2013 #38