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While You Wait For a $1,400 Stimulus Check, House COVID Relief Bill Will Pay Federal Workers to Stay Home And Get Paid $1,400 Per Week
MenRec ^ | 02/27/21 | Rusty

Posted on 02/27/2021 4:23:54 PM PST by rustyweiss74

Forbes is reporting that the House version of a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package contains “an extra perk for federal workers” that involves paid time off to stay at home with children not taking part in in-classroom instruction.

The “perk” tucked inside a bill dubbed the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021,” is defined by critics as “a personal bailout for bureaucrats.”

While most of us wait for a one-time $1,400 stimulus payment as we struggle with employment and tending to kids which we now teach from home, federal workers dealing with the same conditions will be privy to a $570 million family leave account exclusively for them.

Eligible to dip into that account are those federal employees “unable to work” because they are caring for children not physically in school full time “due to Covid-19 precautions.”

Like the rest of us.

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"Under the bill as currently drafted, full-time federal employees can take up to 600 hours in paid leave until September 30, up to $35 an hour and $1,400 a week."
1 posted on 02/27/2021 4:23:54 PM PST by rustyweiss74
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To: rustyweiss74
Can take? Pretty sure it's will take...
2 posted on 02/27/2021 4:26:40 PM PST by fhayek
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To: rustyweiss74

remember to THANK the GOP for giving away
the country and the ELECTION.

the GOP had it all, and squandered it to attack
their own voters for CHINA, while backstabbing
POTUS over nothing at all.


3 posted on 02/27/2021 4:29:38 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: rustyweiss74

That should keep those schools closed.


4 posted on 02/27/2021 4:31:45 PM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: rustyweiss74

If they can take 600 hours, then their job should be eliminated. This is really insulting to the rest of the working class.


5 posted on 02/27/2021 4:32:09 PM PST by NautiNurse (It took 20 years for FL to clean up voter fraud in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. But we did it. )
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To: rustyweiss74

Well, the stinking teachers have been sitting at home collecting full salary...

It stands to reason that the other major communist pet would get similar treatment as well...


6 posted on 02/27/2021 4:38:09 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: fhayek

Well I pretty sure that this federal worker won’t qualify since I don’t have kids in school.


7 posted on 02/27/2021 4:48:16 PM PST by Jean2
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To: rustyweiss74

$1,400 because rent and bills come only once a year.


8 posted on 02/27/2021 4:50:06 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: rustyweiss74
Democrats reward their voters - Republicans punish us. What’s wrong with this picture?
9 posted on 02/27/2021 4:51:07 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: bray
"That should keep those schools closed."

Absolutely... Then fire the teachers... Burn down those regional monstrosities they have been using to store and propagandize those children in...

Finally, neighborhood families can restore the concept of "public schools" (under their control) by building and staffing non-union neighborhood schools that made this Nation's education system second to none...

Let's start rebuilding the now heavily diminished average IQ of the American citizenry...

Most students should be walking to school again... The cost savings to budgets and the environment of millions of school buses no longer roaming the Nation would be huge...

Finally, shut down and vacate the federal Department of Education and burn all its rules & regs...

10 posted on 02/27/2021 4:51:54 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: rustyweiss74

They will get paid for taking off 75 work days.


11 posted on 02/27/2021 4:54:02 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: rustyweiss74

90% of federal “workers” are counterproductive and should have been fired early in the Trump first term. The red-hot Trump economy could have absorbed them.


12 posted on 02/27/2021 4:58:05 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: SuperLuminal

Well ,just damn! I’m just a grandmother stuck with dealing with my granddaughter that can’t deal with virtual schooling. There is a whole hour of zoom instruction each day but it is in two sections so the varmint has to stay put. I am losing what few wits I have. I gave up trying to teach her myself. She informed me that she doesn’t need to learn “stuff” because she can Google it. After the whupping she was more amiable to studying. I want my money or at least my property taxes back.


13 posted on 02/27/2021 5:19:18 PM PST by Himyar (Comes A Stillness/ God Bless Robert E. Lee)
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To: Diogenesis

remember to THANK the GOP for giving away
the country and the ELECTION.

the GOP had it all, and squandered it to attack
their own voters for CHINA, while backstabbing
POTUS over nothing at all.


Correct. Never forget. Never forgive.


14 posted on 02/27/2021 5:24:48 PM PST by lodi90
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To: rustyweiss74
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
15 posted on 02/27/2021 5:35:52 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: NautiNurse

EXACTLY


16 posted on 02/27/2021 5:52:40 PM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: rustyweiss74
Yep. And some poor SOB contractor, who was shouldering 75% of the workload to begin with, barely gets paid half that. And has to pay for his health bennies out-of-pocket through his staffing agency. Been there. Done that. And corporate gigs do the same as the feddle gummint. You're a rent-a-mule, and get treated like it.
17 posted on 02/27/2021 5:57:09 PM PST by Viking2002 (The revolution won't need to be televised. It'll be on your doorstep.)
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To: Larry Lucido; rustyweiss74

1 of ping.


18 posted on 02/27/2021 6:10:38 PM PST by upchuck (When it absolutely, positively has to get there, choose something other than USPS.)
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To: Himyar
"I want my money or at least my property taxes back."

Been saying that since the blacked robe judges established busing as an SJW tool back in 1972 and we immediately took our kids out of the government system... Our children never set foot in a government propaganda institution again...

Except for college, it became a family inherited tradition, as all our grandchildren and great grandchildren have followed the same path...

19 posted on 02/27/2021 6:36:29 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: NautiNurse

In Nashville, the city departments were all open with two shifts working at half normal staffing at 4 hours each, and getting paid full time pay and benefits. Then they raised property taxes 34%.


20 posted on 02/27/2021 6:39:08 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (DemocRats would burn the country to the ground to be absolute rulers over the ashes.)
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