Posted on 12/11/2018 3:57:35 PM PST by mdittmar
*sniff sniff*
They shouldn’t have voted Democrat.
“federal workers” is an oxymoron. The last thing they do is work. More like federal parasites.
“Our members take home an average of around $500 each week.”
Right. $2K a month is $24K a year, multiply x 1.3 to get their gross, these employees make $31K a year pre-tax? That’s a tad over the poverty level.
They never lose any money. They are paid retroactively and many enjoy the paid vacation.
Read: “Socialist Union Members Use Stranglehold on Govt Service to Bully Americans into Paying More for their International Union that Spits in the Face of Uncle Sam”.
They’ll be replaced with illegal aliens anyway some day soon.
They get a vacation and when they return to work get back pay - they lose nothing.
They get a paid vacation. Don’t expect any sympathy from me.
Fed “unions” were made by executive order...unmake them! These bums should have never been “unionized”.
Maybe they can all go to work for General Motors.
I hope PDJT shuts it down and, unlike Obama, shows in full detail, how the government is always open and never shuts down and how much wasteful extra people there are...
Fire every freaking hillary-voting apparatchik in our fed govt AND BAN UNIONS.
#DRAIN THE FARGING SWAMP ALREADY!!! Jeeez
I’m hearing very faint violin music.
“The most basic job of Congress is to fund federal agencies.”
No it is not. That statement can be roughly translated as: “the most basic job of Congress is to federal emplouyees”; which it is not.
The basic fiduciary - financial - responsibility of Congress is not to federal employees; it is as stewards over what the TAXPAYERS are paying, and that is FOR what is best for the taxpayers, whether it works out the best for federal employees or not.
If Congress does not think that federal spending is doing right by the taxpayers, it has zero obligation to “protect” federal workers at an inappropriate expense to the taxpayers. It matters not that there can be disagreement in Congress about just how to do that. That fiduciary responsibility as good stewards for the taxpayers money, not wages for federal employees, is what is “most basic” when it comes to Congress money decisions.
Budget negotiations are not about protecting federal agencies or federal workers. They are a CONSEQUENCE, not a purpose, of deciding what is the best use of taxpayers money - as THOSE expenditures are ALL subject to debate and compromise and NONE are “guaranteed”.
If the “basic” job of Congres was protecting federal agencies and their employees, Congress would be REQUIRED to support all current expenses for them, without compromise. There is no such requirement in law or the Constitution and the Constitution is the BASIC law of the Federal Government.
It always turns into paid vacation. It’s not like they’ll lose any money.
$500 a week? Their members are in the wrong union. I’m sure the numbers are much higher at the second largest federal workers union.
Federal “workers”
More like Federal PARASITES.
This is just so much BS.
The employees furloughed in every ‘shut down’ I recall were made whole when FedGov got back into action.
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