The budget

Apologies my my long absence on the blog. I haven't made it regular part of
my schedule, and thus it has fallen by the wayside.

For those of you without regular contact with gov't or military workers, the
email below testifies to the current state of the budget and the havoc it
wreaks on them. Since we have no budget or continuing resolution, our
leadership has to start controlling money at a higher and higher level,
which gets more and more inefficient.

We are a teaching squadron, have probably 60-70 people working in our
building and here's how we're forced to save money, by scrimping on toner
cartridges. It's a poor plan. (This, of course, is after the last round of
personnel firings.) I'm glad Iraq will finally be wound down before the
super committee deadlocks and the real budget pain begins.

-----Original Message-----
From: X Maj USAF ACC
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 8:50 AM
To: ALL Personnel
Subject: HOT! Toner Use
Importance: High
[All],

We are emergency fuel on printers. The base is out of money to purchase
toner, and we were forced to return two of our four remaining toner
cartridges to the [operations group] to distribute to other squadrons.

Limit all printing to mission essential use only. If you can read it on-line
then don't print it out. Please use the Sharp copy machine in my office to
the max extent possible. It is on a DAPS contract so the toner and MX is
paid for.

When and if, Congress approves a budget we will go back to normal ops. Until
then please help us preserve what little toner we have.

-Maj X