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Government doors closed, but workers may get paid
Houston Chronicle ^
| October 5, 2013
| Andrew Taylor
Posted on 10/05/2013 9:03:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
With the partial shutdown entering its fifth day, the GOP-run House passed a bill Saturday that would make sure the furloughed workers get paid for not working. BFD They get paid every Friday for "not working", that why they were furloughed as "nonessential"! We need to be trimming fat not playing silly games.
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
10/05/2013 9:48:39 AM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Just one Question:
What is wrong with No work, No Pay????
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posted on
10/05/2013 9:51:12 AM PDT
by
EXCH54FE
(Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
As I asked my girlfriend, on furlough from ICE, why are you home?
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posted on
10/05/2013 9:55:14 AM PDT
by
Cyman
To: VerySadAmerican
RE :”
Obama to government workers: You will be paid so keep supporting the one that writes your paycheck. Not the ones who pay it. The one who writes it. Understand?” Obama didnt vote yet, but guess who did. Not one House GOP voted NO.
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 525
You know what this means?? Get a government job or you are a sucker.
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posted on
10/05/2013 9:55:43 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: EXCH54FE
I “lived” in the WDC area for 30 years. These Fed “workers” always get retroactive pay for any stoppage. ALWAYS. Why do you think many of the most wealthy counties ring the beltway of WDC? Your tax monies at work. It is a paid vacay for them...yet they knash their teeth for effect. Disgusting.
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posted on
10/05/2013 9:56:49 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Gandalf_The_Gray
Now you know what they in GOP house mean when they say they are worried about spending/deficits.
Its all BS.
They could have added conditions to this, like make Federal employees get health care from exchanges, but instead they all just caved to libs and handed GS Fed employees our $$$ again.
Obama didnt blink. GOP did, entire house.
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posted on
10/05/2013 9:59:19 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: sickoflibs
They could have added conditionsAs long as they're getting paid anyway, why keep them at home? What difference does it make? Why not make them earn that pay rather than waste millions in hard earned tax dollars on.......nothing?
This is a CLASSIC example of government waste. We're obviously over taxed!
To: hal ogen; EXCH54FE
RE :”
These Fed workers always get retroactive pay for any stoppage. ALWAYS. “ I live in Maryland and I been reminding Freepers here for years how Newt/Dole did this for that shutdown 1995/1996 too.
I know many here who have that sweet deal
It is lost in the romantic stories told by Rush and Levin.
They spin a completely different tale.
They didnt have to get this $$$$ though,
GOP in House caved.
All of them.
They are so FOS.
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posted on
10/05/2013 10:04:22 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: concerned about politics
RE :”As long as they’re getting paid anyway, why keep them at home? What difference does it make? Why not make them earn that pay rather than waste millions in hard earned tax dollars on.......nothing?
This is a CLASSIC example of government waste. We’re obviously over taxed!”
My point exactly
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posted on
10/05/2013 10:05:07 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: hal ogen
I lived in the WDC area for 30 years. These Fed workers always get retroactive pay for any stoppage. ALWAYS. The work stops, but the wasteful spending never does.
To: concerned about politics
The problem with the bureaucrats is that also the work never starts...at least truly productive work. There are an incredible percentage of Fed “workers” who are make-work jobs.
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posted on
10/05/2013 10:37:58 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: sickoflibs
O-o-o-o-o, you don't worship Oboner--Valerie's gonna getchou.
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posted on
10/05/2013 11:17:48 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: GeronL
This is actually a wise move by the house conservatives. It is the second chink in the democrat's armor and one O is going to sign, again, in opposition to his and the stated democrats words that everything would get funded at once, or nothing at all.
Next should be the NIH funding (cancer treatment for kids), and then the Nation Guard funding, and that crack in the dam will become a torrent of line item funding bills, if the conservatives hold to the plan.
Just my 2 cents...
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posted on
10/05/2013 11:30:29 AM PDT
by
Errant
To: Cincinatus' Wife; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; sweetiepiezer; txnuke; La Lydia; aragorn; ..
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posted on
10/05/2013 12:12:51 PM PDT
by
LucyT
To: LucyT
We need to think of this as a paid vacation for federal workers... because that’s what it is...
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posted on
10/05/2013 12:18:41 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Brieitbart sent me... Freeper newfreep)
To: 353FMG
What other job can you get paid for sitting home playing video games?
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posted on
10/05/2013 12:36:09 PM PDT
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
10/05/2013 1:12:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: Uncle Chip
This House Republican vote just told us that this is nothing but political theatre to them Well, it told that to the people who didn't already know it. I believe those people are holding a convention the corner phone booth.
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posted on
10/05/2013 1:49:47 PM PDT
by
shego
To: sickoflibs
make Federal employees get health care from exchanges That's the existing Federal system.
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posted on
10/05/2013 1:49:47 PM PDT
by
shego
To: LucyT
Certainly he's scoring big points with anti-American countries with whom he sympathizes. Harming Americans by any means necessary is their stated goal.
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