Posted on 01/11/2019 2:52:00 PM PST by cotton1706
ederal employees received pay stubs with nothing but zeros on them Friday as the effects of the government shutdown hit home, deepening anxieties about mortgage payments and unpaid bills.
All told, an estimated 800,000 government workers missed their paychecks for the first time since the shutdown began.
Employees posted pictures of the pay statements on Twitter and vented their frustration as the standoff over President Donald Trump's demand for $5.7 billion for a border wall entered its 21st day. This weekend, it will become the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
"I saw the zeros in my pay stub today, and it's a combination of reality setting in and just sadness," air traffic controller Josh Maria told The Associated Press after tweeting a screenshot of his paystub. "We're America. We can do better than this."
(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...
In this case, the shutdown is being caused because part of the company disagrees with the CEO on a $5bn expenditure. Let's look at this in context:
| Federal Finances FY 2018 Outcomes |
||
|---|---|---|
| Budget billions |
Outcome billions |
|
| Receipts | $3,340 | $3,329 |
| Outlays | $4,130 | $4,108 |
| Deficit | $833 | $779 |
Thus, this is all over 0.12% of the actual outlays.
If I was impacted by this situation, I'd be hopping mad at the House.
Well, federal employees, brush off your cameras and colored pencils and find your joy!
We cannot be held responsible for every under capitalized business. Signed your former highness.
Cramps associated with shrinking the federal tumor.
This is the TRUE definition of a Manufactured CRISIS ! Federal employees who have experienced a prior shutdown are well versed in how to claim available benefits. The media know this also but not a word about it. Federal employees who are eligible can apply for unemployment benefits on or after the first day of their furlough.
I just read: A furloughed federal employee’s guide to filing for unemployment during the shutdown
By Nicole Ogrysko
“Federal workers”?
Workers?
Live and work in Montgomery county right next to DC.
Everybody I know that has a government job has a rainy day government shutdown fund.
I have little sympathy for employees who are too stupid to have figured out that this WILL happen during their employment.
What, they couldn’t leave a little something in the bank? I took four paychecks and two mileage checks into the bank, and the teller looked at me with love in her eyes...
Exactly. I was working at the VA in 1995 during the Clinton/Gingrich shutdown and our local VA Hospital Employee Credit Union offered ZERO interest payday loans to us. We also had to work w/o getting paid on payday, so we just took our paystubs down and they gave us a loan equal to our take home pay. As long as we paid off our payday loans within 90 days we didn’t pay interest. I paid mine off the moment we got our regular paychecks again.
I’m sure this option is available today to most of these Federal Workers NOT getting paid today. I heard Navy Federal Crecit Union is offering low/zero interest payday loans to Fed Workers. They’ve got quick, easy options to get their money to tide them over till this ends!
No sympathy from me or my neighbors-starting 8 years ago, thanks to the Obama economy snowbirds didn’t have the money to Winter here in this rural area any more, putting some of us out of business and trashing all our incomes. We were told by the fed to suck it up-now, we are starting to make money again thanks to pres Trump-so the spoiled fedzilla workers can just take their turn at not being able to afford gas or pay bills-just let that karma bite them in the ass-schadenfreude...
But they’ll get backpay for not working. That’s not right.
I heard some strange discussion from NPR (National Public Radio) today. The Democrats doing the talking weren’t complaining much about President Trump. They were complaining about the Democrats in the House refusing to make a deal with him on the funding for the border barriers.
I suspect, by the way, that a few rich donors are behind the House Democrat stubbornness against the wall.
Really? I would never have guessed that from the way the local news is reporting that furloughed Feds are on the brink of starvation and being evicted from their homes because they missed a paycheck. It seems that almost every year for the past 10 years there's been a threat of a government shutdown.
I'm a furloughed Fed and every time there's an imminent shutdown Contracts asks me what direction to give our support contractors. I tell them they can keep working until they run out of money.
I have little sympathy for employees who are too stupid to have figured out that this WILL happen during their employment.
I feel the same. It took only one shutdown for me to learn that lesson.
“We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” Hillary Clinton said at a town hall in West Virginia in March.
Free vacation! Where do I sign up?
Effin cry babies!
There’s a neighborhood in Cedar Rapids IA called “Time Check” from the days when the railroads did exactly that when cash was tight. Paychecks were post-dated but families could cash them at local banks who would delay the companies obligation.
Yep - it was Obama’s goal to make all zeros a permanent state for the paychecks of a lot of energy producers....he boasted about it.
And what will they do if we don’t pay them? Vote Democrat? They already do, so you see there are no consequences to ignoring their plight. They reap what they sow.
Local news here in Chicago had some local EPA guy on complaining, like his kiester is critical to the environment or something, LOL. You are not missed, fella.
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