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Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown
NBC News / Comcast ^
| September 24, 2023
| By Shannon Pettypiece
Posted on 09/24/2023 7:10:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:12:06 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Amad Ali, who did he vote for?
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:13:02 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yes, cops and SSA workers hardest hit.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:13:31 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Oh no! Now what? ~hahahahahahaha
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:14:02 AM PDT
by
albie
To: Oldeconomybuyer
NBC didn’t waste any time throwing us a tearjerker.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:14:55 AM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdownBummer.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:16:05 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(They don't think you know but I know that you do.ish )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How many federal workers in DC are working from home?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Fedzilla NEVER shuts down.
Deep State will deem most of it essential and the parts that aid Deep State will continue to do so.
Anything that Deep State shutters will be the parts that can be used to put the screws to the public.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:17:45 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Never give up; never surrender!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
From the article and in the source:
"as Congress careers toward a government shutdown."Nice editing, editor.
I think you meant 'careens'.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:18:01 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(I choose TRUMP over Tyranny )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Shutdown for federal workers, my a$$. VACATION for federal layabouts as they will be paid every check missed.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:18:50 AM PDT
by
hardspunned
(Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
To: Jim Noble
SHUT IT DOWN. Any federal worker who can’t scrape by for a few weeks isn’t very resourceful or self sufficient.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:19:19 AM PDT
by
OHPatriot
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: All
Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown............
Hopefully that includes the mega-paid political operatives staffing DC govt agencies.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:20:15 AM PDT
by
Liz
( 2024 Dems will have the same guy with the same team around him, just older.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Put it at permanent risk.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:20:16 AM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The typical scare tactics. And they nearly always work.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:21:03 AM PDT
by
CatOwner
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I don’t want government employees or their families to suffer.
I would like them to have even better jobs in the private sector.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:21:30 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
500,000 home grown Zelensky’s demanding a living large life.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:21:45 AM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The last time it happened, it was horrible. Se were out for a whole day. And they paid us for it.
The time before it was a little bit longer. They paid us for the missed time.
It seems like it happened once or twice while I was active duty. I don’t think it impacted us. For the civilians, it was the same drill. It has been many years since civil service lost paychecks because of a shutdown. (It’s always possible.)
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:22:21 AM PDT
by
Gil4
(And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Most of us are dedicated civil servantsEvery civil servant needs to look around and ask himself a number of questions:
- Is my day filled with constitutionally allowed and useful work that provide value to the taxpayer?
- Can I do my job with fewer subordinates?
- How much of my time is spent providing direct and useful service to the taxpaying public?
- How much of my time is spent dealing with support service contractors whose job is to justify more support service contractors by taking up more time from their federal "supervisors?"
- should my whole deparment be eliminated?
- should my whole agency be eliminated?
- Have I vocally advocated for substantial improvements in delivery of value to the taxpayer?
- Am I reviled for this? [no? you're not trying hard enough]
Unfortunately the answer to these questions is likely not what folks want to hear. Federal salaries are a drop in the bucket of the cost of government. What has mushroomed beyond comprehension are all the unneeded services that are contracted out to insiders who have sweetheart deals to take in money and provide little in return, except the grease that turns the wheels of corruption in the swamp. It's alwasy been there but the Bush/Cheney team showed how the professional crooks do it.
To: central_va
interesting that they would stop paying federal workers, Social Security recipients and military first. But continue funding their foreign wars and lining their own pockets. You wont see any senators going without pay.
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posted on
09/24/2023 7:23:45 AM PDT
by
Samurai_Jack
(This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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