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Federal Workers Get $0 Pay Stubs as Shutdown Drags On
usnews.com ^ | 1/11/19 | BRADY McCOMBS and MICHELLE SMITH

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."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections
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To: buffyt
I know of many people who worked for no pay when their employer couldn't make payroll. At some point, however, they decided it was time to move on because their employer wasn't coming back to life.

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.

21 posted on 01/11/2019 3:27:47 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: cotton1706
Remember when Obamacare kicked in and the massive firings and reduction of hours to 29 a week? Remember asshat Pelosi expounding on how great this was because now people had time to pursue their dream of being a photographer or an artist or whatever ...

Well, federal employees, brush off your cameras and colored pencils and find your joy!

22 posted on 01/11/2019 3:36:56 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: cotton1706


23 posted on 01/11/2019 3:42:09 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (Gadsden Purchase 1853 U.S.A. buys 29,670 square miles from Mexico for $337 An Acre)
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To: cotton1706

We cannot be held responsible for every under capitalized business. Signed your former highness.


24 posted on 01/11/2019 3:45:56 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: cotton1706

Cramps associated with shrinking the federal tumor.


25 posted on 01/11/2019 3:52:18 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: cotton1706

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

Link:
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2019/01/a-furloughed-federal-employees-guide-to-filing-for-unemployment-during-the-shutdown/


26 posted on 01/11/2019 3:53:13 PM PST by cquiggy
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To: cotton1706

“Federal workers”?
Workers?


27 posted on 01/11/2019 3:57:27 PM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: cotton1706

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.


28 posted on 01/11/2019 3:58:44 PM PST by lizma2
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To: cotton1706

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...


29 posted on 01/11/2019 4:01:52 PM PST by W. (I'm tired of cleaning up after autokorrect. Wish it would die!)
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To: Yo-Yo

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!


30 posted on 01/11/2019 4:03:18 PM PST by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertisers)
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To: cotton1706

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...


31 posted on 01/11/2019 4:28:55 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: cotton1706

But they’ll get backpay for not working. That’s not right.


32 posted on 01/11/2019 4:37:54 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: cotton1706

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.


33 posted on 01/11/2019 4:41:19 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: cotton1706

I suspect, by the way, that a few rich donors are behind the House Democrat stubbornness against the wall.


34 posted on 01/11/2019 4:42:50 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: lizma2
Everybody I know that has a government job has a rainy day government shutdown fund.

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.

35 posted on 01/11/2019 4:51:09 PM PST by rllngrk33 (Time for all patriotic Americans to boycott liberals and all SJW/PC bullsh*t.)
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To: unixfox

“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.


36 posted on 01/11/2019 4:51:45 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: familyop

Free vacation! Where do I sign up?

Effin cry babies!


37 posted on 01/11/2019 5:31:28 PM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: Yo-Yo

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.


38 posted on 01/11/2019 5:33:30 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: cotton1706

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.


39 posted on 01/12/2019 3:50:28 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: cotton1706; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; LS; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; ...

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.


40 posted on 01/12/2019 10:11:35 AM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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