Actually, the title is true. Because Congress has not passed a true budget for more than four years, the industries that rely on Defense Department and other government contracts have been having a terrible time. My company made me part-time last summer–no benefits–and there were layoffs as well. Things have not picked up, and then the sequester hit. Now, nobody in the government is spending a dime they don’t have to, so even though we won huge contracts, they’re not being funded. And because they’re not being funded, we just went through our second round of layoffs. We are beneath bare bones. The only reason my personal work isn’t affected is because the contract that I work on is paid up through the end of the year. If we lose that contract, I lose my job.
But go ahead, keep on pushing the narrative that the sequester isn’t really hurting anyone. I can point you to thousands of workers who were laid off, and thousands more who are now losing ten percent of their salary by being furloughed one day in ten.
So it was a really great day at work, and the only good thing about being part-time is that I don’t have to be there in person to see my friends leave the building in tears.