Posted on 09/24/2023 7:10:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
With six kids under the age of 15 to support, Stephen Booth, a police officer for the Air Force in Kansas, doesn’t have room in his budget for a missed paycheck.
But like millions of other government employees across the country, Booth is bracing for his pay to stop indefinitely at the end of the month as Congress careers toward a government shutdown.
House Republicans left Thursday unable to reach a compromise within their ranks over a new budget, including funds for the Defense Department, with a handful of conservative holdouts demanding additional spending cuts. Unless Congress acts, the federal government will not be able to pay its 4 million employees after Sept. 30.
The shutdown comes at a particularly precarious time for many households already struggling with persistent inflation that has driven up the cost of rent, child care, groceries, transportation and utilities. At the same time, a string of Covid-era benefits have been expiring, such as the child tax credit, rental assistance and the pause on student loan payments, which are now set to resume in October. To cope, households have been spending down their savings and increasing their credit card debts over the past year.
“It’s really rice and beans time,” said Amad Ali, a claims specialist with the Social Security Administration in New Albany, Indiana, and president of his local AFGE union. “Most of us are dedicated civil servants and we keep on doing it, we keep on pushing forward, but it’s tough.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
NO! No federal worker ever lost a GD dime over a government shutdown. The worst that happens to them is a weeks long paid vacay in addition to the average 30 days of payed leave they already get. They may have a brief pause in their paychecks, but they GET every cent when the “shutdown” is over. Why doesn’t the country go belly up every federal holiday when the entire government is “shut down”?
Songs for the violin....
When No One Cares — Frank Sinatra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R_jQ98XUGQ
Angel Eyes —Frank Sinatra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkxooexlxGI
All the wasted love on the government and the Dems....
Drink up, all you people
Order anything you see
Have fun, you happy people
The drink and the laugh’s on me
Angel eyes that old devil sent
They glow unbearably bright
Need I say that my love’s misspent
Misspent with angel eyes tonight
Order anything you see
And have fun, you happy people
The drink and the laugh’s on me
Pardon me, but I gotta run
Gotta find who’s now number one
And why my angel eyes ain’t here
Excuse me while I disappear
I suspect auto-correct myself but I could be wrong.
The Rats always look to affect the most vulnerable wand inconvenience the most people. Hell, lay off the thousands of people who wok at useless, redundant, unneeded jobs that the public won’t notice.
Let me find my tiny violin. Oops, I lost it.
Biggest BS article to date. They always get back pay and to boot they get another vacation.
Bull
I have lived through MANY shutdowns, and all the ends up happening is federal workers get paid time off.
Yes, this is fake news. The MSM spreads this nonsense every time there’s a shutdown.
Yep, plenty of GS “police persons” guarding US military installations...
One GS 8-9 example:
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/740491100
Many more examples here:
https://www.dodciviliancareers.com/lawenforcementsecurity
I don’t want to brag on my abilities, because everything I am, all my gifts, come from Almighty God, but no one wanted to see me retire when I did. They knew I produced a quality product for them and they always expressed their appreciation for my efforts. And it was an honor to do so, pilots and boom operators are amongst the bravest people in the Air Force. As one pilot put it, “we are always 30 seconds away from being a smoking crater.” I highly respected all of them, and I would pop a salute every time I saw them even though I just a civilian. In an age where many people just look at their professional as a “job,” I looked at it as a calling from God.
Yes. It’s like that at the local base I worked at. Probably 80% of the security details is accomplished by a civilian police force, not uniformed members of the military.
They’re so blind, they can’t see the stinging irony of that sentence. The primary reason inflation is out of control is wild government spending. The “shutdown”, if it occurs, will be because democrats refuse to reign in that spending, not even one tiny bit. So the action the article is attempting to demonize is intended to mitigate the very issue it is also using as an argument against that action. It must be a 24/7/365 carnival of chaos inside the skull of every leftist ”progressive.”
My heart bleeds, NOT. Government employees are the enemy. They need to be productive members of American society by getting jobs in the private sector and actually build something.
Two words:
Birth
Control
Don’t wanna support this guy’s kids with my tax dollars.
Govt Shutdown means this:
Sob stories from the media
Fedgov law enforcement will be still on the job hunting down domestic enemies (us)
TSA slow downs or shut downs at the airports.
It will be a show for the media creating a giant pain in the ass for the taxpayers, but in reality, no one on the federal payroll will suffer.
It’s showtime.
Praise God!
Therein lies the problem. YOU WORKED and they jacked off doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and You were making THEM LOOK BAD. I say good on You and Thank You for being a REAL PERSON AND WORKING !!!
I dealt with the same thing in the private sector at many different jobs I had over the years. 99% of the time the USELESS ONES would complain that I was not doing anything and since most of them had been there longer than I had so the PTB would believe them and I was at minimum reprimanded and other times I would get fired for some BS reason.
I would usually hear via the grapevine that eventually the lazy POS that complained about Me was finally caught doing something that they had said I was or wasn't doing and finally got fired. It was a bit of satisfaction but most of the time I would rather have kept that job. But I trudged across the tundra, mile after mile and kept on going.
Had a machine that was a complete mess, by unfortunate design errors. Did not ask anybody, but on a Saturday, I went to the shop and tore into the thing. Figured out how to redesign / reconfigure, and just focused on that for the week.
Boss said “Hi” and left me alone - no “do this/that.” The mgt. was just happy to see somebody taking a swing at a fix.
Well, the newer version of the machine worked great. For some parts, I used fashioned pieces from scrap metal that was laying around.
Next thing I know, the boss wants me to travel and fix the customers’ machines. Good times.
Interesting you say that because the one person who didn't like me the most was my immediate supervisor. She was so jealous of the attention that I got because I would try and help people and answer their questions.
I remember one instance when a pilot came in and said he had a question for me, and she immediately piped up "I can answer your question!" I just put my head in my hands and passed him along to her.
Then was another time another pilot came in and said, "Byron, you do such great work for us. I'm glad you're here." She came running out of her office, literally, and exclaimed "Well what about the rest of us, don't we account for anything? Don't we do good work too?" Poor guy, she made him feel really bad. I saw him later and said, "You see what I got to put up with on a daily basis?"
When a change in supervision came about I asked my new boss if I could move out of the office down the hallway and he agreed. Best office move I ever made. And since I no longer reported to her she had nothing to say in the matter. I could go on and on about her and write stories that would take up many pages, but I think you get the point. Over the years many people acknowledged just how poor of the worker she was and in the end I got the last laugh because I retired and she finally had to work.
It's too bad folks didn't speak up sooner but I'm of the opinion people like her will get their "up and comings."
Thanks for your kind words.
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