Shut down Reagan, BWI and Dulles.
The members of congress are being paid. They should get NOTHING when there’s no budget.
“”Passengers flying Saturday were stunned to learn the air traffic controllers who guided their planes were working for free. “””
They are not working for free. They will be paid in full.
so you’re saying... if people take home little to nothing from a week of work, it will increase their stress and increase the odds they walk off the job?
whoa!
that’s almost like taxing the f*ck out of ppl so they take home after an 80 hr week as much as the tards eating EBT food & playing xbox all week
Average pay over $120,000.
I have a better idea. Privatize those functions.
Not a fun situation; well even if they blame Republicans, at least they are forced to look at the government now. I could chide Republicans for having done too little and waited for a rope a dope moment such as this. Good is stronger than evil but it has to be exercised, good won’t stuff itself down your throat if you don’t want it.
It must be tough to not make ends meet with a paycheck in six figures. Last shutdown I had to work as an essential personnel and got paid later, it was only a week shutdown. The ones that did not work got an extra week of vacation. What a rip off.
And they're living paycheck-to-paycheck?
And it's surprising to anyone that the US government is $17,000,000,000,000.00 in debt?
I call BS on this! No affected essential employees, required to work for IOU’s, were unaware of their situations! Prior to 10/1/13 all vacations and time off were canceled and they were required to attend a meeting where they were presented documents outlining their options. They could continue to perform their duties and await the full refunding of all back pay at the end of the shutdown or refuse to work, be reclassified nonessential and possiblylose the pay for the time they are gone.
No one now on the job was”sstunned” by the half paycheck! They are all very aware of the deal!
obama owns this.
He is using the absence of pay to piss off the American people.
Only non essential people have been sent home, there is no reason to not pay anyone still on the job.
There are many small airports which have airport controllers which aren’t really necessary. Lay those people off, and let their respective cities pick up the tab if they wish. There was a sequester threat list earlier this year, get it out and use it this time.
There hasn’t been a budget in 5 years, but some people don’t pay attention. He needs to call Harry Reid about why he shut down the government (because master Barack said so).
26 years and didn’t save a dime. Phhttt!
My Dad was ATC for that long but I’ll be damned if he let his or his family’s ass breeze in the wind.
Greg, you sir are an idiot.
How we just make them part of the private sector? The private sector is normally exempt from these kinds of stupid things.
Republicans should have had an “Instant Response” team in place weeks ago for EVERY one of these bogus shutdown stories, which all of us knew were going to happen.
Instead, low information voters read it, or hear about it, and Republicans have no timely and organized counter punch.
We are so pitiful.
Our leadership is so pitiful.
If he’s had a steady high-paying job for 26 years he should have a few bucks put away to carry him over.
Everyone should have six months of cash on hand.
Obama needs to be impeached immediately! Remove him from our government now! He is a curse on the nation!
Maybe these govt employees should call the Rats and tell them to go with the House plan to budget dept by dept. The Pubs will fund critical depts and useless things like the commerce dept, EPA, Education, and obamacare can wait till the economy improves. :-)