Posted on 10/07/2025 11:23:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The government shutdown entered its seventh day Wednesday with no end in sight. The White House says a 2019 law doesn’t guarantee retroactive pay.
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Why should they? No work, no pay. It’s not that difficult to figure out.
The issue is “automatic” back pay. Some furloughed employees may get back pay and some may not. Local Washington DC media is playing this up to influence the Virginia governor race. The media used a government shutdown to defeat Ken Cuccinelli in 2013.
Let them litigate it in civil courts. Due process is important to these people.
Most work remotely from home anyway!
As cops like to say, "They might beat the rap, but they won't beat the ride."
There are many that can not work from home due to classified material. I think that Federal employees should have to use their sick leave or vacation time to supplement their pay .
If you worked without pay, they for sure, you need to get paid back for that work!
Otherwise, no work, no pay!
Every shutdown, I was upset, when they all get paid for nothing. That has to end!
Way too much is “classified”. I bought stock in Sharpee. The government provides me with quite the steady income. (Newell Brands) The Biden bunch alone applies carbon black marker to everything they did. Extrapolate that out to Beltway Scale, and I’m surprised there is much carbon black ink left on the planet!
There’s gonna be a glut of used Teslas for sale!!
With back pay in the future, workers are just on an extended vacation. I would rather think they would enjoy it. I know I would.
They did not choose to be off work.
Nor do most laid off workers.
Private industry workers don’t get back pay.
Why should gubmint workers be special?
I have no problem with the critical workers who work during this time getting back pay. I have a terrible problem with those getting another vacation on top of the rest of the stuff getting a paid vacation too. No work, no pay. In this case it is their recalcitrant dem reps who caused this, let them whine to them.
I agree. I was commenting on the text in the article.
*Common Sense*
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