WHY???
Does the word CROOK ring a bell?
Corruption R Us.
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JAIL ALL 400,000 OF THEM
“already up in the billions due to lost worker productivity and revenue.”
How is it that when people who don’t do anything productive anyway are laid off, it is a loss in productivity?
they’ll give it back right after the Walmart EBT thieves give back their free stuff.
And I guess I'm out of the loop on this -- I had no idea you could start getting unemployment that freaking fast.
And don’t forget the overtime to push the papers that sat around unpushed during the horrible shut down.
I hope they choke on it. Stealing is still a crime.
They need to go to Maryland where the unemployment offices around Fort Meade were clogged with laid off people from DISA and NSA who are unlikely to pay back a penny of their unemployment checks even though many of those workers make in excess of $100,000.00 a year.
I don’t qualify, since I am a contractor, but I got to hear the guidance from the powers-that-be. Put away the pitchforks and torches, folks, they are instructed to return the UI benefits as soon as pay goes in. Failure can result in prosecution. The powers are serious about this. This is not the one to get worked up about.
WHY???Does anyone have a link to the tally sheet that shows what comprises that $24 billion that keeps floating around?
If it was $24 billion of FedGov spending, then I think that is a good thing. And, I don’t give a rip about downstream financial impacts. Any time we can cut spending at the Federal level, it’s a good thing.
You can’t use `government workers’ and `worker productivity’ in the same sentence.
This is from 2013, so hopefully whatever loophole allowed this has been closed. We were briefed that we could draw unemployment, but would have to pay it back when the furlough was over.
Some of our junior people will need it for sure to get by until the paychecks restart.