Thanks to Texas’ new senator, Dale Huls is out of a job, at least for now.
Yet Huls has never been prouder that he voted for him.
“Without Ted Cruz this doesn’t happen,” said Huls, a NASA systems engineer who was among roughly 3,000 federal employees furloughed from Houston’s Johnson Space Center.
“This is something Americans have to get used to,” said Huls. “Even if it affects your livelihood, you’ve got to stand up.”
Cruz was elected to the Senate in 2012. He carried Harris County by 18,000 votes, even though it includes Houston’s minority population and government workers. He had been in office barely nine months when took to the Senate floor for a 21-plus-hour quasi-filibuster decrying the health care law.
Huls said he has enough savings to tide him over for at least two months without a paycheck. But he’s worried about not making up money he borrowed from his retirement plan and says he may eventually have to talk to other creditors about extensions.
“But I don’t consider myself a victim,” Huls said. “I’m in this fight too and this is my role.”
Pedro Rivera, a space center programs specialist who is working on the Orion capsule the U.S. hopes to send to Mars, said he too is willing to accept being furloughed even if the shutdown means a delay in Orion’s scheduled test launch next year.
“I think it’s a small price to pay for the future generations,” said Rivera, who says he considers the new health care law un-American.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/in-texas-some-federal-employees-still-hailing-ted-cruz-_-even-as-they-start-missing-paychecks/2013/10/05/e4215168-2d79-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html
Yet Huls has never been prouder that he voted for him.
“Without Ted Cruz this doesn’t happen,” said Huls, a NASA systems engineer who was among roughly 3,000 federal employees furloughed from Houston’s Johnson Space Center.
“This is something Americans have to get used to,” said Huls. “Even if it affects your livelihood, you’ve got to stand up.”
Cruz was elected to the Senate in 2012. He carried Harris County by 18,000 votes, even though it includes Houston’s minority population and government workers. He had been in office barely nine months when took to the Senate floor for a 21-plus-hour quasi-filibuster decrying the health care law.
Huls said he has enough savings to tide him over for at least two months without a paycheck. But he’s worried about not making up money he borrowed from his retirement plan and says he may eventually have to talk to other creditors about extensions.
“But I don’t consider myself a victim,” Huls said. “I’m in this fight too and this is my role.”
Pedro Rivera, a space center programs specialist who is working on the Orion capsule the U.S. hopes to send to Mars, said he too is willing to accept being furloughed even if the shutdown means a delay in Orion’s scheduled test launch next year.
“I think it’s a small price to pay for the future generations,” said Rivera, who says he considers the new health care law un-American.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/in-texas-some-federal-employees-still-hailing-ted-cruz-_-even-as-they-start-missing-paychecks/2013/10/05/e4215168-2d79-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html
