[central_va]

[central_va]

Amad Ali, who did he vote for?

[central_va]

Yes, cops and SSA workers hardest hit.

[albie]

Oh no! Now what? ~hahahahahahaha

[ComputerGuy]

NBC didn’t waste any time throwing us a tearjerker.

[Jim Noble]

Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown

Bummer.

[MinorityRepublican]

How many federal workers in DC are working from home?

[mewzilla]

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.

[Aevery_Freeman]

From the article and in the source:"as Congress careers toward a government shutdown."

Nice editing, editor.

I think you meant 'careens'.

[hardspunned]

Shutdown for federal workers, my a$$. VACATION for federal layabouts as they will be paid every check missed.

[blackdog]

Put it at permanent risk.

[CatOwner]

The typical scare tactics. And they nearly always work.

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t want government employees or their families to suffer.

I would like them to have even better jobs in the private sector.

[blackdog]

500,000 home grown Zelensky’s demanding a living large life.

[Gil4]

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.)

[AndyJackson]

Most of us are dedicated civil servants

Every civil servant needs to look around and ask himself a number of questions:

1. Is my day filled with constitutionally allowed and useful work that provide value to the taxpayer?
2. Can I do my job with fewer subordinates?
3. How much of my time is spent providing direct and useful service to the taxpaying public?
4. 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?"
5. should my whole deparment be eliminated?
6. should my whole agency be eliminated?
7. Have I vocally advocated for substantial improvements in delivery of value to the taxpayer?
8. 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.

[oldbill]

Bulls%#&!,,

With all the past shutdowns not a single government worker has ever lost a single day of pay.
Ever!

Shutdowns are paid vacations for government workers.

[Stravinsky]

Usual theater. I don’t know why people get here get so excited after so many times of the same BS.

[cockroach_magoo]

I don’t recall NBC writing sob stories about the workers laid off due to “vaccine” mandates.

I don’t recall NBC writing sob stories about the Jan 6 trespassers who couldn’t (and still can’t) support their families while recipients of undue process.

I don’t recall NBC writing sob stories about the Canadian truckers who had their bank accounts frozen.

I don’t recall NBC writing sob stories about the families impacted by teams of feds taking out their loved ones while storming their houses at 6 am.

Screw NBC.

[central_va]

The US treasury takes in $14.5 BILLION every day, day in, day out. That is around $500 million in taxes every hour. All they have to do is prioritize the payouts. Why is it all or nothing?