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Treasury Paid $6.2B in Fed Salaries, $2.8B in Insurance Premiums During Shutdown;
CNSNews ^ | 10/17/2013 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 10/18/2013 6:26:26 AM PDT by rktman

During the first sixteen days of fiscal 2014, when many politicians and media outlets were saying the federal government was shut down or partially shut down--and when a sign on the front gate of the Treasury Building warned that the entrance was closed--the Treasury was nonetheless shoveling out $6.246 billion in salaries to federal employees and $2.801 billion in insurance premiums for which federal employees were the beneficiaries.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: dopes
Yeah, that'll show 'em. And we didn't even get dinner. Now that the low/no info "voters" are thoroughly convinced that the republicrats are extortionists and suicide bombers, what's the chance the party of liars won't take the house next year? To say I'm fairly disgusted would be a gross understatement.
1 posted on 10/18/2013 6:26:26 AM PDT by rktman
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Also.... They are all getting back-pay for the time they missed. Boo hoo.


2 posted on 10/18/2013 6:30:37 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Waiting for next tagline.)
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Will a non-democRat ever be president again, more like.
3 posted on 10/18/2013 6:32:16 AM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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$6.246 billion in salaries to federal employees and $2.801 billion in insurance premiums...

So in other words $9 BILLION for doing absolutely nothing. The Fedzilla, formerly called 'public servants' where the people they supposedly work for must work long and hard to support as well as pay fines for the communism scam aka Obamacare they created.

4 posted on 10/18/2013 6:36:13 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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lbj’s plan finally coming to fruition?! Give them “n’s” just enough and we’ll have them voting us for a hundred years. Or was it 200 years? Great society my butt. More like a lost society.


5 posted on 10/18/2013 6:37:47 AM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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I am beyond disgusted and leaning toward hopeless. Let it crash. It’s hard to keep giving a damn.


6 posted on 10/18/2013 6:40:35 AM PDT by pnut22
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Must be nice to get a 3 week PAID vacation on top of the already umpteen dyas these parasites get off for doing literally nothing.

They are laughing all the way to the bank.


7 posted on 10/18/2013 6:58:05 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Just got back from an all-expense paid vacation in Europe. Didn’t even have to use my leavetime. Couldn’t have done it without your help. Had a wonderful time. Thanks guys!


8 posted on 10/18/2013 7:05:10 AM PDT by Mashood
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How much did they spend on Medicare and Social Security?


9 posted on 10/18/2013 7:14:09 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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