Posted on 10/02/2013 3:21:43 AM PDT by Biggirl
In shutting down the government, members of Congress have turned their own U.S. Capitol complex into a ghost town running on a skeleton crew. There aren't any tourists milling through the Capitol rotunda. Fewer police officers are working, so many entrances are closed. Up to two-thirds of each office's staff is at home, forced to shut off their BlackBerries. And many of the usual comforts of a lawmaker's day job have vanished.
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The likelihood though is that the Boehner supporters in the House will soon cave. If they would sit tight, people might (they probably are too dense, however) see that the shutdown affects very little. Not too many visit national parks in October. I feel sure though that Republican congressmen from Obama states will be the first to cave.
Tough cookies.
First, you should not be paid for time you are not working, period. If you later receive pay for that time, it was in fact a paid vacation.
Second, if you are a highly paid Federal contractor, you should not expect much sympathy on this site. Some might even suggest that you are part of the problem.
others recognize that your personal well being, safety and national security reside in the expertise and competence of certain highly paid federal employees who are performing duties 24/7 under powers enumerated by the US Constitution
sleep well, cookie
Interpretation: For once in a Blue Moon, there is room to walk/drive/breathe in the area.
If you are active duty military, i agree with you. If you are a civilian chair-warmer at DoD, not so much.
The wealthiest counties in America surround Wash DC, with governmental salaries and benefits roughly twice that of normal America.
They reliably vote rat.
Federal employees will not find much sympathy in fly-over and fly-around America, where towns and societies are dying under the boot your employer.
Nope, I’m a contractor. LWOP for me.
Oops. “dying under the boot of your employer.”
My personal well-being and safety resides in me. Our national security resides in me and millions of other Americans who will put our second amendment rights into use when needed.
good. “forced to shut off their blackberries”—such drama!
Finally, they found a way to slash costs and begin fiscal responsibility...close ‘em all down.
If you are or were military, you know “chair warmers” who make it possible for you to do your job every single day and you recognize that DoD civilians and military are a team
For many years the nation has been content to keep the size of our all-volunteer armed forces at a level not requiring a draft by using DoD civilians and contractors to carry out many defense-related activities.
Remember that the brave men who took up arms to try to save the US ambassador in Benghazi and died there, were “contractors”... not that anyone cared to deride them as chair warmers
Now, the chairwarmer at the White House? Not so much part of the team
The brave folks in Benghazi were not warming chairs in D.C. You insult their names by comparing them to the fat in Washington.
they were contractors (you called DoD civilians “chair warmers”)- oh, just the ones in DC?? Like at Langley? Pentagon? Meade?
you sir dishonor them and every other DoD employee and asset by gloating over unpaid furloughs
Some “chair warmers” were working at the Navy Yard when it was attacked and ran to their cars to get their personal weapons. When 9-11 attacked the Pentagon chair warmers and active military alike dragged burned bleeding bodies out of the wreckage and went back looking for more, and all mourned the dead. No one sorted out who was wearing a uniform or a suit. The MILITARY includes our civilians, we take care of each other and we all do what has to get done
If I have to explain this, you haven’t been there
Now, I refuse to engage further in battle of wits with an unarmed enemy
Again, if you receive “back pay” for the time you were furloughed, then you got a paid vacation at the expense of us taxpayers. Have a great day leeching off the productive segment of society.
The government needs to stay shut down.
/johnny
@dinodino. You clearly have no understanding of how the modern military is trained, equipped, deployed and sustained. Therefore, you lack credibility.
TC
There is no indication that DoD civilians currently out of work due to the shutdown furlough will be paid for the time lost beginning yesterday. In fact, they were ordered to work yesterday morning to accomplish an orderly shutdown, but further ordered not to record their time for October 1. They may be paid later for October 1, but that is not certain.
Thus far, DoD civilians have not been paid for the 6 days of administrative furlough that took place this summer as a result of the sequester.
I am all for the active duty military being paid, because of the potential for them to be placed in harm’s way - even if they are not currently and may never have been in harm’s way - as well as because of the personal autonomy they forfeit in order to serve. But it is a fact that many active duty military are currently assigned to sit right next to civilian “chair warmers.” And many of those military members are rather concerned this morning about what they do not know and what is not going to get done, likely for many days to come. And if those civilians do come back, they will be expected to catch up on the backlog of work via night and weekend work that they do not record.
Given the perverse nature of the current Senate, which thinks it has a political winner on its hands, this furlough may continue for a while.
You sounds like the basic leftist POS! The folks you deride help our military men and women everyday. Most of them are retired military and conservative - far from being a “leech” as you say. You need to redirect that venom to the scum who support King Obama.
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