Did you know that the government shut down all non-essential services, October first, due to the budget thing thats been going on? My son is in the National Guard, He is a full time National Guard Soldier. That means that he works 5 days a week doing his National Guard job plus his Monthly Guard week end. Anyway at the beginning of October they were told that they were laid off until the budget mess is fixed. When he called and told me that, we both had a good laugh about it. Then he told me that he was going to take advantage of the free vacation days and take his family to the mountains for a few days.What does that mean to the regular American citizens? If you have a disaster its going to take about 10 to 15 days to get the National Guard back on line so that they can come and help you out. Well to finish the story, after about a week the people in the state Government realized what was going on and called all the National Guard people and told them that they should come back to work and that the state would make sure that they got paid even if they had to pay it out of the state budget. The Guardsmen would also get back pay from October first on.

I decided to pass this small bit of information along because I thought that you guys might get a laugh out of it like I did.