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Paid To Stay Home— Coronavirus Aid Bill Pays Federal Employees With Kids Out Of School Up To $21K
Forbes ^ | 02/23/2021 | Adam Andrzejewski

Posted on 02/25/2021 12:10:53 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

The U.S. House version of the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” – a $1.9 trillion emergency aid package to help America recover from the coronavirus pandemic has an extra perk for federal workers: Enhanced paid time off if your child is enrolled in a school that isn’t back to full-time, in-classroom instruction.

Critics call it a personal bailout for bureaucrats. It is funded through a new $570 million family leave account exclusively for federal workers.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


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1 posted on 02/25/2021 12:10:53 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
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The US government and many blue state governments need to be placed under IMF supervision.


2 posted on 02/25/2021 12:14:45 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Kid Shelleen

They are not working-— unless they can document work from home... and even then, they really aren’t quantified as working, and they will get regular pay plus this!! Absolutely ridiculous.

Money we do not have to people we do not need, for work they are not doing. Work in most cases if it is not done— is not missed. Rare exception. Think IRS hassling people from home, on the net, with extra pay..... just because muh covid. Bullcrap.


3 posted on 02/25/2021 12:20:39 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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“...for work they are not doing.”

That is a bargain. Can we pay them all not do anything? Make it a legal requirement that Federal employees are not allowed to work.


4 posted on 02/25/2021 12:23:18 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Kid Shelleen

Good to know we’re taking care of our Federal employees. /sarc


5 posted on 02/25/2021 12:30:57 PM PST by Renkluaf
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Can we pay them all not do anything?

We've been doing that for years. At least now, they have to buy their own paper clips.

ML/NJ

6 posted on 02/25/2021 12:38:03 PM PST by ml/nj (DITCH MITCH !)
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To: Brian Griffin
placed under IMF supervision

The IMF is a BS extension of the Federal Reserve.

ML/NJ

7 posted on 02/25/2021 12:40:40 PM PST by ml/nj (DITCH MITCH !)
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To: Kid Shelleen

What in the flock?!

They take taxpayer dollars to give to fed parents but what do the taxpayers get?

Fed workers are no more special than the taxpayers.


8 posted on 02/25/2021 12:44:05 PM PST by Irenic
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To: FreedomNotSafety

The federal government is too often a make-work project for people who can’t hack it in the private sector ... And that includes Congress.


9 posted on 02/25/2021 12:45:40 PM PST by JennysCool (2020: Aging “world socialists” promoting their ideology by scaring the crap out of gullible people.)
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To: John S Mosby

PLUS the teachers and school administrators are all getting full pay, and now the parents are further motivated to NOT have their kids returned to in-person school, so it is a conspiracy by all who are paid by our tax dollars, to NOT work, and to CONTINUE to get more and more money (we earned), for not working. Great.

What I am feeling must be part of that “unity” Joe mentioned?

(/s)


10 posted on 02/25/2021 12:50:29 PM PST by NEMDF
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[[They take taxpayer dollars to give to fed parents but what do the taxpayers get?]]

You got your $400 under Joseph Stolen what more do you want? That should pay the rent for what? a week?


11 posted on 02/25/2021 12:51:00 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Kid Shelleen

Man, I wish I were on the list for all the freebies this country is handing out. And here I am, having to fight to get disability for an adult child. Something is very wrong with this picture. Like maybe I’m the wrong color, or middle class, or play by the rules of life, or ... .


12 posted on 02/25/2021 12:54:00 PM PST by hoe_cake (A Descendent of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: Bob434

Just sickening, all of it.


13 posted on 02/25/2021 12:57:45 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Kid Shelleen

The problem with not working is that no work gets done.


14 posted on 02/25/2021 1:00:28 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Irenic

Yep- and it’s getting worse- The Evil and Sin on the left is mind boggling- above is a thread about a man who wears dresses, advocates for children getting mutilated for transgender surgery, who took his own mother out of the nursing home when the state ordered sick covid patients into the homes- about to be sworn in as our nation’s health something or other-

The blatant evil in our faces assaults on this nation is astonishing-


15 posted on 02/25/2021 1:05:08 PM PST by Bob434
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It’s disgustingly unfair and criminal especially when other workers such as medical, nursing, grocery store checkers and many others do NOT have the option of staying home and may be around sick people daily.
This is illegal and I do NOT want my tax money going to pay loafers just because they work for fed, state and city governments.


16 posted on 02/25/2021 1:05:13 PM PST by doc maverick
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Indeed.

Some days I need to pinch myself to know this nightmare is real.


17 posted on 02/25/2021 1:11:13 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Kid Shelleen
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
18 posted on 02/25/2021 1:13:23 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Federal employees vote democrat.
It is fitting that they get rewarded for voting democrat.


19 posted on 02/25/2021 1:35:11 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Kid Shelleen

As America swirls......down the bowl.


20 posted on 02/25/2021 1:47:07 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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