Posted on 12/11/2018 9:26:26 PM PST by hapnHal
Congress and Trump previously approved funding bills for three quarters of the $1.2 trillion in operating expenses for federal agencies. As a result, only some agencies would be closed when funding runs out after Dec. 21, and even in those essential employees would still report to work.
Among those facing a partial shutdown are the Homeland Security Department, though many of the agency’s law enforcement agents will remain on the job because they’re considered essential. National parks would remain open but most employees who maintain them would be sent home. The Securities and Exchange Commission would halt new investigations except where needed “for the protection of property.” The Defense Department is funded and would operate normally.
An estimated 400,000 federal employees would work without pay and 350,000 would be furloughed, according to a congressional Democratic aide. The essential employees who work during a shutdown are paid retroactively when the government reopens and payroll operations resume. After previous shutdowns, Congress also has passed legislation to retroactively pay furloughed workers.
Nothing, in other words, our rights will be safe until they are back in session.
Nothing
“Congress also has passed legislation to retroactively pay furloughed workers.”
This is the weak point. No work... NO PAY
If the Government shuts down, the most annoying government employees will still be working. It won’t be as good as a weekend or a holiday, even the government-only holidays. It will suck almost as much as usual.
Considering the timing, it will be like most of corporate America, with everyone seemingly on vacation for the last two weeks of the year.
Leeches will continue to leech, the scammers will continue to scam, and Schmucky Schumer will be getting in front of his buddies in the LSM hourly to decry the latest “Constitutional Crisis” started by this dummy in the White House who doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Then, in his final act of cowardice before skulking back to the land of cheese, Squeaker of the House Pauline Ryan will acquiesce to Schmucky and SanFranNan and pass yet another CR with little or nothing for National Security, in terms of the Wall.
“Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”
Mueller should be sent home. Non-essential.
The MSM will blame Trump while the rest of us go on with our lives.
A few Government employees will get a little extra time off. They will still get paid.
The Only Time The American People Are Truly Safe Is When Congress Is Not In Session
Attributed To Mark Twain
Last time Obama shut down the parks and war memorials......it took extra gov workers to block and prevent people/veterans from using and visiting the sites. It didn’t work very good up here as people pay for the up keep with their tax dollars, so they cut the rope blocking the wildlife refuge and used it anyway.
Let the leftist belly-aching begin!
A lot of paid vacations.
That movie will NEVER stop being a classic if only for that one line. Bill Murray’s delivery was perfect.
And gotta love Ernie Hudson’s expression as Murray says it.
>>>An estimated 400,000 federal employees would work without pay and 350,000 would be furloughed<<<
I think I see the problem, unless these 750,000 (WTH) Federal Employees report to work in Combat Fatigues.
Having been through the 2011 to 2013 mini-shutdowns as a gov’t employee (now retired)...I can vouch that tons of hours are spent on devising what is essential and non-essential. Even within the Pentagon structure....people think all of it is essential, but you’d be surprised how many pieces of it are in the non-essential category. National Park Service....the Obama administration considered it all non-essential, but tons of it is operated by private contractors and the public pays at the entry gate (didn’t matter, they were shut down as well). I think that 2013 episode with 16 days of shutdown worried a lot of folks in the DC region.
What I came to realize was that a lot of people living around DC....even those making $100k a year...had no savings and were up to huge debt with overpriced houses. By the time you added up the mortgage, two car payments, college debt...with both husband and wife working, thousands of these people had virtually nothing left to survive an entire month without pay. We had some idiot couple that was noted with a combined income of $260k (all gov’t generated income) and they came to admit in some interview that they could survive 30 days at best, and then they’d start to default.
In this case, when Trump talks shutdown....I think he has a period of 100-days in his mind, and they’ve never done something like that before. even that 16-day deal was considered fairly harsh but if they were to go 100 days, it’d freak those gov’t workers out.
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