Reply #9: I was in the military the last time and we were not exempted. [View All]

[Ozymanithrax]

Because the Defense Authorization bill was passed in January, military pay checks will not be affected tis time.

However, the VA is not under the defense authorization bill, which is paychecks for retirees, and the VA hospital, Tricare, etc. etc.

My brother is retired military and will working on a based in Colorado for a group not funded by the defense bill. He is lose both his VA retirement and his paycheck. He gets low income housing in military housing there, which is not funded under the Defense Authorization bill, and the civilian company they hired to manage military housing has complained that they may have to evict retirees and active duty military if the government does not pay them.

Every government employee not working directly for a program funded by defense will not be paid. Government programs that provide money for schools in bock grants, hire police officers, poor money into the repair of highways, the TSA, will not be paid. A governemnt shut down will suck, and quite possibly trigger that second our third double dip in the economy that people tell us won't happen.