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D.C. has a lot of federal workers. A government shutdown would have big impacts
NPR ^ | September 30, 2023 | Margaret Barthel

Posted on 09/30/2023 8:52:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: exDemMom
And the Republicans can’t do a lot about it.

That's why Kevin McCarthy should just make a deal with the Democrats and get it over with.

81 posted on 09/30/2023 11:18:42 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia combined have about 400,000 federal workers

And there's your problem right there.

82 posted on 09/30/2023 11:23:14 AM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: packagingguy
After WWII Detroit was the wealthiest place on earth.

Detroit became corrupt. You can blame a lot of that on the UAW. If they were like the Japanese, Detroit would still be Detroit today.

We have American made vehicles in this country by foreign manufacturers. So American workers are fine. It's the management and the unions.

83 posted on 09/30/2023 11:24:10 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: PGR88

“The seven richest counties in the USA all surround Washington DC.”

One of them is the wealthiest Black County in America. Prince George County -—iirc.
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For decades, Prince George’s County has carried the unique distinction of the country’s wealthiest majority Black county, but data now shows that title belongs to neighboring Charles County.

“It’s a place you can say I’m going to retire here and just say forget it, done,” Leslie Garner said.

Garner, a federal government worker who owns a gym in Prince George’s County and lived there for 15 years, moved south to Charles County three years ago.

“I’ll take the commute any day if I can have that peace when I get home,” he said.

Garner is part of a population shift that accelerated during the pandemic. Washington Post data columnist Andrew Van Dam investigated the trend in a recent article.

“The number of families who are Black and earning more than $200,000 has quadrupled in Charles County from 2009 to 2020,” he said. “It’s just an enormous economic shift of the type we don’t often see.”

The Washington Post analyzed census data and found Charles County’s white population has declined while its Black population has risen above 50%, making it a majority Black county and surpassing Prince George’s as the wealthiest.


84 posted on 09/30/2023 11:28:02 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: butlerweave

They aren’t doing that already?


85 posted on 09/30/2023 11:31:51 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Or the Fremont plant in California.

Once Toyota took over running it, the turnaround was amazing.

And that was with the same workforce and same UAW leadership.

The problem was GM executives, engineering and corporate leadership and it is the same for every Detroit manufacturer.


86 posted on 09/30/2023 11:35:28 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: dennisw
One of them is the wealthiest Black County in America. Prince George County -—iirc.

Yes but not included in that list of seven wealthiest counties in the U.S.

87 posted on 09/30/2023 11:48:10 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SaxxonWoods

“Non-essential” workers do not get paid until the shut down is over. Then they get all their backpay. The dishonest propaganda media must have stopped their statement about the pay before they got to the part about getting the money later.


88 posted on 09/30/2023 11:58:18 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: MinorityRepublican

And it would impact all the right people.


89 posted on 09/30/2023 12:16:03 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: kiryandil

As someone who is now retired from the DOD, I can attest to what you wrote.


90 posted on 09/30/2023 12:28:40 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sniff


91 posted on 09/30/2023 1:02:01 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: kiryandil

Yellow chompers.


92 posted on 09/30/2023 1:02:30 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: frank ballenger

I’m sure since that time there have been many more hires.
Also, there are federal employees all over the place.

Biden’s 87,000 IRS agents was just the starter kit.


93 posted on 09/30/2023 2:23:00 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Learn to code.


94 posted on 09/30/2023 3:51:03 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: butlerweave
"They can go Loot with the rest of their friends"

LOL

95 posted on 09/30/2023 4:09:36 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Biden Regime delenda est)
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To: Carriage Hill; kiryandil

“History began yesterday for her generation.”

For every Leftist, “History begins each morning”.


96 posted on 09/30/2023 5:11:26 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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Senate votes to pass House’s stopgap funding bill, averting government shutdown

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-votes-x-x-pass-houses-stopgap-funding-bill


97 posted on 09/30/2023 5:53:40 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Does so

Sage advice to remember when dealing with them.


98 posted on 09/30/2023 7:28:56 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Most terrifying words:

“I’m here from the government, and I’m here to help.”

- Ronald Reagan

Never forget!!


99 posted on 10/01/2023 8:31:39 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
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