[Mannaggia l'America]

Hahahahaha! Floriozine just can't say no to his old flame...

[EagleUSA]

Amazing how the liberal mob works, ain't it ???

[Don Corleone]

Catering to his voter base I guess.

[oceanview]

might?

this was always part of the plan - they all got a week off with pay.

[toddlintown]

What? No doubletime for the missed weekend?

[cripplecreek]

Well that's going to save lots of money.

[Biblebelter]

In Socialist America, just another lose lose situation for those who work hard play by the rules and pay taxes and pay more taxes. Politicians do not think twice about paying someone for not working, they all had Maynard G. Krebs as their idol growing up.

[ncountylee]

Might raise their demand to time and a half for mental anguish. PIGS!

[pageonetoo]

... Brian Davis, 38, of Trenton, a senior medical security officer at the Ann Klein Forensics Center, on the grounds of the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, said he wasn't sure.

"I need the money to pay my mortgage," he said. "I have three kids and I work hard to keep my credit rating good. The state is messing it up..."

Translated means: I don't have any savings and I expect you taxpayers to cover my ass...!

What the hell is a "senior medial security officer"? Does that mean he guards the elevator at the hospital?

[rfreedom4u]

So basically he says you can't come to work because we are short of money but we're going to pay you anyway?

Is this some new kind of economics?

[CharlesWayneCT]

If they were going to pay them anyway, why didn't they just let them work?

I think this is just funny -- I hear so much more about the "almost" shutdown here in virginia than I did about New Jersey.

[D.P.Roberts]

I just thank God anytime I don't get all the government I'm paying for.

[Bernard]

Hard to believe that either the labor agreement between the employer and the union, or some law does not specify whether the workers are entitles to get paid for sitting home and doing nothing instead of showing up and .....

Then again, it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who would ever think that a government would actually run out of taxpayer money to spend?

[USMA '71]

Let's see: 45,000 people @ $40,000 a year salary plus 25% benefits equals $50,000 a year per person on average. Divide that by 50 weeks and it looks like the strike will cost NJ about $1,000 per person or about $45,000,000. Sweet deal if you can get it.

[bpjam]

When in American history have government employees EVER (think of that word as bold as you can imagine) been given time off because of a government shutdown and NOT been paid for the, in this case, 6 day July 4th holiday? When???

The government employees are the REASON that NJ is $4.5B in debt and they were protesting in the streets about losing two days pay? Unbelievable. Its like a drug dealer asking to get his drugs back after a liberal judge lets him off the hook for technicality - and the police being ordered to turn over the drugs.

[FMBass]

Unbelievable.

Well, if they are going to pay them, it should come out of the the Gov's and the legislator's salaries.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Was there ever any doubt about this?

[kittymyrib]

Let's see...NJ is broke, so it had to raise taxes, so they will pay 40,000 state employees for an extra week of vacation. I'm sure this makes perfect sense to vote-buying Democrats and their union bosses. Why would any sane person stay in NJ to be a tax slave for these crooks?

[aimhigh]

"We believe that legally the state absolutely has to pay folks for the past week because it was a lockout, which is a breach of the contract,"

What liberal hogwash. It wasn't a lockout, it was a lay off due to lack of cash. Layoffs do occur with union jobs. Someone needs to investigate to see if the Governor and the union conspired on this beforehand.

[napscoordinator]

Not a surprise to me. I knew they would be.

[rocksblues]

Let me get this straight.

Raise taxes for everbody 1%.

Give back .05% to homeowners.

Pay people for not working>

But according to Democrats this is not a tax cut for the rich?