Posted on 09/24/2023 7:10:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
They always get their money.
And don't forget the small businesses forced to shut doors then, while ones like home depot stayed open.
Needs to be repeated and blasted over and over.
Big deal. They will receive every penny of their back pay when the money spigot opens up again.
So, what’s the diff? No work at work for pay. No work at home for pay.
Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition.
And nobody expects productive work from the gubmit.
The term “worthless turds” comes to mind.
I was going to write the same thing, but decided to look up 'Careen' vs. 'Career.' Turns out it's a fascinating story of word etymology and "career" is acceptable these days (though, like you, "careen" feels better).
From the cited link...
In fact, one intransitive sense of careen is defined as a synonym of career, which is itself defined as "to go at top speed especially in a headlong manner."Language is always interesting. Here we go from Medieval jousting tournaments to overturned boats leading to something moving headlong, out-of-control, at high speed.Despite their one-letter-off resemblance, careen and career are not etymologically related. Career finds its origins in medieval jousting tournaments. Before it came to be the preferred term for one's professional path, the noun career (from Middle French carriere) referred not only to the courses ridden by knights but also the act of riding a horse at a rapid clip in short bursts.
The verb careen, meanwhile, originally described the action of putting a ship or boat on land, usually in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull. To careen a boat, you need to tilt it on its side. Careen gradually became used to describe the act of a boat tipping over in rough waters, or the similar tilting of other things.
So how did this verb get conflated with career? As motor vehicles became commonplace, careen became a useful word to describe the lurching, side-to-side motion that a vehicle would make when it was racing out of control, thus the overlap between careen and career.
Traditional usage commentators frown upon this overlap, insisting that careen shouldn't be used for something that is only moving at a headlong pace without any kind of side-to-side motion. But popular use tends to drown out those objections. Nowadays, careen is actually the preferred verb for rushing forward, particularly in American English.
Social Security recipients
Just one word in the article describes the root of the problem: “MILLIONS.”
Shut it down and know that a shutdown directly affects me.
So...shut it down for a lonh time with no back pay for any deep state member.
Good. Parasites can go elsewhere for their fix.
Riot. Burn down the neighborhood. Claim it is racism. Whatever. Just destroy everything in the area. Carry a BLM flag and you will not be stopped.
No. Career, as a verb, is perfectly acceptable here:
Career (verb): move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction (more commonly used in Britain)
Careen (verb): 1) move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction. (More commonly used North America)
2) turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair (original meaning).
Waaaaaa, waaaaaa, waaaaaa, cry me a river. None of these idiots know how to live on a budget and have a savings account??? PLUS, these crybabies WILL BE PAID every damn cent once the shutdown is over. AND if you federal "workers" and I use the word "workers" loosely, if you don't like it, find a job in the dreaded private sector, where you won't last 10 minutes by the way, because your nonsense won't be tolerated!
It's the way the Constituion made it. Congress holds the purse strings. Appropriations are mostly annual. No appropriation, no money can be spent (see Anti-deficiency act of 1884). Mandates (social security and Medicare/Medicaid are not appropriations. Therefore they have to be paid. No annual appropriation bill is required. If anyone is claiming that SS/Medicare/Medicaid is impacted, they're full of it. But everything else is. They cannot spend money they have no appropriation to spend. Even if treasury is bringing in that much per day.
“How many federal workers in DC are working from home?”
I have read many articles on the Federale work from home scam. DC region Federale “workers” are the worst and the most entitled. My guess- estimate is 75% of them are shirking from home 3 to 5 days a week.
In other parts of the US, these Federales are more likely to be showing up at the office. More have outdoors work that can only be done in person, such as parks and wildlife rangers.
I was a single Air Force Enlisted troop at that time and due to my duty I had to be on Separate Rations. I was allowed to have a part time job so I not only had money in savings I had an income stream separate from the military. I know the base leadership wasn't too concerned and the Base Commander was a huge prick and said he wasn't going to entertain helping out any enlisted troop's family so they wouldn't go hungry. The Red Cross did announce a program to help, which was pretty nice of them.
I did help some of my friends but the folks with whom I hung around were the more responsible types so none of us had issues.
True. Glad I am retired.
True. Glad I am retired.
The same old BS canard......MILLIONS of people affected - starving - will be homeless!!!! blah, blah.
The truth is to my recollection, these bleats about “looming shutdowns” doing exactly that are NIL....NONE....ZIP.....NADA
Exactly. If they’re non-essential. then they need to be trimmed since we’re 32T in debt.
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