I honestly think it’s incredible that our men and women in the armed forces (and all the other essential federal employees) can manage to be the professionals that they are despite the demonizing, demeaning and now financially reckless way that they are being treated.
I think the loud and raucous voices screaming about the “leeches” on the federal budget should spend a few days in a deep hole somewhere in the Nevada desert monitoring our nuclear capabilities and then follow that up with a shift confiscating box cutters and home-made weapons at a federal courthouse. And then accompany a team from the FBI and ATF successfully disarming (arrests but no casualties) a home in a residential neighborhood wired with explosives and AK-47’s stacked up in the kitchen.