Posted on 10/01/2013 4:26:50 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
That’s very strange the shutdown would affect an already funded contract. Perhaps you are paid by contingency? Are you a consultant? My understanding is consultants are paid with general operating funds. They may want to preserve those in this case. Or perhaps they cannot provide facility support?
Best of luck to you. If I were you I’d start working another job immediately as the old one will eventually return and there’d be a choice.
I’m one of the low income uninsured and I have no intent to accept Obamacare. I refuse to enslave the children of others for personal gain.
No. It is unpaid leave and is hurting a lot of FReepers also but no one here seems to care. Not everyone gets a “huge” federal salary you know. Some make median US income or less.
Just in over the wire.......
The sun is coming up in the East over the Southern Gulf Coast of Texas.........
Updates at 10......
“Buh Bye NEA!!!!”
Ummm; the NEA is a union that is funded by members dues and not the govt.
Unless you know something I am unaware of!
Once again: You cannot bill for hours you do not work, and I am forbidden by law from accessing any Federal web- or physical-asset during a shutdown.
Mis you .... Not at all.
I don’t see that the debt ceiling is a problem. After all, the debt hasn’t been rising at all for quite a while.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/unheard-of-debt-stuck-at-16-7-trillion-for-109-days/
Maybe he's a teleworking chef. Videoconferencing and robotic arms. And the hat- gotta have the hat.
when the ‘shutdown’ ends, the fedgov issues checks which includes the time it was ‘shut down’... making it a paid vacation
as for making median income... it’s not quite the same when you have the ultimate job security and a lifetime pension waiting for you (if you can put up with it long enough)
in the real world, if you do a piss poor job, you lose customers... and you’re not allowed to just print more money to cover the bills. and we have no lifetime pensions, except for the amounts we can squirrel away after handing over 61% to the fedgov (and up to 14% to the stategov)
meanwhile, the fedgov has been spending $3.5 trillion/yr for the last 4.5 yrs... while bringing in ‘only’ $2 trillion in annual tax revenues. eventually, those supplying the credit will shut down the drunken spending and expect some accountability
how can the democrats lobby to change the debt ceiling?
Isn’t it THE LAW OF THE LAND?
I thought DoD civilians and active military were funded at last minute by a separate bipartisan CR?
Oh maybe Obama didn’t sign it?
good for you
you have standing to be a credible advocate because you are not just calling for other people to make a sacrifice
See ya Fedzilla. Wouldn’t want to be ya!
It was hard to miss you when you wouldn’t go away.
I missed you overnight, but my aim’s improvin’...
Hope the door didn’t hitchya too hard etc. So goodbye
And **** you very much. TD
‘Shut Down the Government’
Shut it down. Shut the government down.
Send all the “non-essential” bureaucrats packing. Cut them from the payroll immediately. Then, start lopping the “essential” ones.
Do away with all those worthless government programs we keep hearing about, such as the National Park Service’s video production praising Islam’s contributions to women’s rights (like honor killings and genital mutilation). Shut down all government propaganda aimed at increasing Americans’ tolerance for the least tolerant of religions.
Lay off all the IRS personnel who betrayed the American people and perverted their charge by intimidating, investigating, auditing and bullying citizens exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed rights. Shut down the criminally compromised IRS.
Shut down the EPA, along with all the other federal agencies that have formed their own paramilitary enforcement tactical units. Shut down the NSA that has been spying on ordinary Americans and lying about it. Shut down all appropriations for domestic use of drones.
Shut down the State Department that has been so thoroughly incompetent in providing embassy security. Shut down any funding or weapons support for the Syrian rebels led by al Qaeda operatives. Shut down all foreign aid.
Shut down the taxpayer-subsidized barbershops and cafeterias on Capitol Hill. Shut down free parking garages for federal employees and reserved free parking for Members of Congress at Washington-area airports. Shut down all the special perks our senators and representatives enjoy, including immunity to traffic and parking violations and their own ObamaCare-exempt premium healthcare benefits.
Shut down all the agencies that are dumping more and more coercive, strangling, costly regulations on businesses large and small. Shut down all the inexplicable, incomprehensible taxes levied on telephone and utility bills.
Go through the entire government, line item by line item, shutting down anything that is not working, has outlived its usefulness, is cost-ineffective, or makes no sense. Don’t have a budget (like the U.S. Senate)? Make one. It’s required by law.
Shut down the White House Communications Office so we don’t have to listen to Jay Carney lie every day.
And while all this is shutting down, shut down ObamaCare. It won’t work, is too expensive and intrusive, and we don’t want it.
Shut down all the rampant spending that has led us to the brinksmanship we’re getting so tired of with each continuing resolution to fund a government that is bloated, out of control and ruled over by self-interested, feather-bedding establishment politicians from both parties. Spending will be curtailed. From real-world experience, we’d realize how many government workers and programs are thoroughly worthless drains on our wallets and threats to our individual liberty.
Shut it all down. The sun will still rise in the morning and maybe, just maybe, there will be an outbreak of sanity in the United States of America.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/10/shut_down_the_government.html
I have tried to say that because some of us appreciate what you are personally going through
It’s too easy to sit here and type “shut it down” when you have no skin in the game
take care
Defense Department officials said last week as many as 400,000 civilian DoD workers — roughly half of its civilian workforce — will be furloughed starting today.
Fredhead wrote: “I thought DoD civilians and active military were funded at last minute by a separate bipartisan CR?”
Not passed by the Senate. And that CR was only for active duty military to be paid, NOT DoD civilians.
The poster may have meant the “National Endowment for the Arts”?
*smooch smooch smooch*
Get a room!
Good for you Laz.
I got laid off a military contract job a year ago, and haven't been able to find a job since. I'm in the process of starting my own business.
A friend who was laid off with me has been laid off twice since.
I know that you're not a federal worker, but it's time to welcome them to the party.
Unfortunately, this will just be a paid vacation for them.
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