He was right. One lives inside the D.C. beltway, sucking the lifeblood from the other outside the D.C. beltway.
It doesn’t surprise me, but it could be spun favorably if the GOP had brains/balls.
The dems didn’t need a “clean CR” for this, did they?
Like everyone knew all along, it is nothing more than a paid vacation.
But the National Guard troops who are missing drills, and contractors who are providing a large fraction of our national security, they won’t get paid.
Bassackwards.
Whole damn country is being built around people being paid to do nothing.
Do nothing, worth nothing.
Republicans always make it easy on democrats.
They should have attached this to a few other issues - like keeping the memorials open, the bill to restore funding for cancer treatment at the National Institutes of Health, etc.
Checkmate to Harry Reid, why would I do that.
Let me see if I’ve got this straight.
“Essential” government workers must go to work but will receive an “IOU” on payday instead of a paycheck.
“Non-essential” government workers are to stay home and not go to work, but will also receive an “IOU” on payday instead of a paycheck.
It won’t be the first time the taxpayers have paid government employees for doing nothing.
Furloughed workers should not get back pay. Instead they should get a small amount of severance pay. If they are not essential then they should not be working for the government. No exceptions for sentiment of fairness. 90% of the federal workforce should be placed back into the private world.
The only thing or reason regarding how “bi-partisan” the bill is is that the House Dims are being shamed into voting for the GOP bills to overcome the WH obstinance and at least fund what can be agreed on. Let’s see if Harry Reid let’s the Senate vote and pass this one or not. The Senate Dim’s, especially those up for reelection, better help Reid quit stalling for a “comprehensive” and “clean” bill and pass what can be passed on its own.
The GOP elite was wrong. That argument - the GOP is willing to fund the government essentials, including the pre-Obama entitlements and it is the Dims who want an all or nothing bill - IS a winning argument NOW.
Arsehole Reid won’t take this one up either! What an asshat!
Then why are they not working? No work, no pay. Obama, send them back to work, now!
Why exactly do we have unnecessary non-essential people working for us???
Then they need to get back on the job to earn that pay. The rest of us don’t get paid to sit home and play video games.
Paid vacation, as expected.
As an example of this, I used to work in the records section of the National Weather Service. I maintained the records of the thousands of weather reporting devices spread across the nation. Keeping those records was necessary to determine which devices worked well, which did not, and which kept getting vandalized. NWS needed this information to maintain all the devices efficiently. But on any given day, if I wasn't there, the weather reporting went on.
Wrong -- it wasn't a snafu. But it is now.
There was economic and political benefits accruing from the shutdown by the Pubbies but they are gone now.
Will Ted Cruz vote for this ‘back pay’ when it comes up in the Senate?
