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Originally Posted by Tbugs
Jimmy,
Cool down and take a deep breath (not too deep if you are near an Iowa hog farm).
The government agencies have all their contingency plans going into place at this very moment. There are going to be some disruptions of services and pay. It was determined a long time ago which employees will contiue on their jobs as though nothing happened and who will stay home. All will be paid after the shutdown is through. It will be difficult for some families who go paycheck to paycheck but in the end - all will be paid for the entire time of the shutdown - even though they stayed home.
Blame Republicans, blame Democrats, blame teaparties, but the voting public is going to blame teaparties and Republicans and the Democrats will will in 2012 - just like the government shutdown put Bill Clinton's re-election a sure thing in 1996.
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That is my point.. Who says they will get paid later? The CONSTITUTION is the ultimate law and it says Congress decides what the gov spends..
they will not get paid until Congress passes a budget, and if the congress does not appropriate money to pay them, there is no money to pay them. A contingency plan by a Gov agency does not guarantee them payment.
I agree those that worked should be paid. I do not think anyone furloughed should be paid. I, as a supervisor, was furloughed many times last year to save money, more than my staff, and I did not get paid.
JJ
P.S. PLEASE do not tell me to cool down. It sounds like a back handed way of insinuating something is wrong with me.. like I am a out of control, or too emotional, or childish. .. It sounds like a putdown. I have a right to be concerned about the state of our country. What exactly did I say that indicates I need to cool down?
P.P.S. This is not 1996. In the last election the president's party (in his own words) took a shellacking because they were they perceived as the party of big spending and the Republicans promised (again) to reduce spending. This budget fight is over spending.
JJ