I'm DoD so I know I will be impacted when it happens. Looking at 5 months of pay reduction by 20% or I figure what would likely average out to somewhere close to 700 per month for the average employee. 800,000 DoD employees, 750,00 or so will be impacted... Somewhere close to 500 million dollars each month that won't be going into supporting these people's families. Mortgages, student loans, car notes... These items may be impacted and if so, does the gov't end up bailing out the companies that weren't getting paid?
3\4 of a million workers impacted in the DoD alone. Some will be fine, but many will struggle... However, they want the supervisors to schedule the furlough days so that it has minimal impact on the process. So the politicians don't et to feel the burn that those of us facing furlough...