Posted on 10/06/2013 3:45:32 PM PDT by KeyLargo
There Is No Shutdown … For Non-essential Federal Employees, Only Citizens
Oct 6
Posted by tonysanders
What is this horrid government shutdown I keep reading about? It isn’t for Federal employees, since the House passed legislation paying all non-essential Federal employees that were furloughed for their missed time. (I President Obama signs it, that is).
Stated differently. Non-essential Federal employees received a taxpayer-funded vacation.
The government shutdown is a way for the Administration and Senate to punish Americans for Republicans not rubber-stamping the funding of Obamacare.
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Shutdown lowdown: House OKs paid vacation for furloughed Feds
WASHINGTON, October 3, 2013 – As the budget battle and the Federal government shutdown are set to continue this week, the House has just passed a measure that essentially grants retroactive and continuing paid vacation to Federal workers furloughed as a result of the current budget impasse. According to the Washington Times, “The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Virginia Reps. James P. Moran, a Democrat, and Frank Wolf, a Republican, cleared without opposition on a 407-0 vote, marking a major bipartisan breakthrough.”
Sorry, but the best thing that the Republicans can do is to do a permanent Shutdown which seems to effect only the non-essential employees (maybe 13%). That is the idea of removing waste from Government isn’t it?
Nearly all Americans are not missing anything and don’t care about the usual government waste being inoperable. That’s a good thing.
Yes, our government has been sent on a PAID vacation.
Too bad it doesn’t work that way for the average American worker outside the government bankroll.
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