Nonessential Federal Employees
January 22, 2018
With the federal government “shutdown” and “nonessential” federal employees told to stay home, I can’t think of any federal employees more nonessential than the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers stationed overseas on U.S. military bases, occupying countries, or fighting foreign wars. They should forever be furloughed.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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