Pentagon won't furlough Pearl Harbor shipyard employees

[KamaAina]

Try to contain your shock.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2013/05/14/pentagon-wont-furlough-pearl-harbor.html

The Pentagon said Tuesday that shipyard employees, including several thousand workers at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, are excepted from 11 furlough days that other civilian defense employees must take between July 8 and the end of September....

But Hagel also said there would be exceptions, including employees who are deployed.

"Employees in Navy shipyards will be excepted from furlough because it would be particularly difficult to make up delays in maintenance work on nuclear vessels, and these vessels are critical to mission success," he said in the memo....

The thousands of other civilian employees in Hawaii who are affected by the furloughs will receive notices between May 28 and June 5. Furloughs will begin July 8, with one furlough day per week for most employees through the end of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.

So air traffic controllers and nuclear subs are okay, because the 1% and the war machine, respectively, need them. But Head Start? Meals on Wheels? Let 'em eat cake!