Govt Shutdown = Paid Vacation For Some Workers?
- Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:15pm by
Mike Opelka
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Government Shutdown. That’s the topic du jour in the Newsiverse. But is a government shutdown as terrifying as these talking heads are leading us to believe? Maybe it is a very bad thing if you are one of the people about to be furloughed, then again, maybe not.
There are some 800,000 government employees who are considered ‘non essential’ and they are all being told of their status today, just in case a last-minute deal is not struck.
Who qualifies as essential and gets to stay on the job?
Our troops, air traffic controllers and postal workers are considered to be ‘essential’ and their work will continue.
The non-essential workers will be asked to turn in their government IDs, blackberries and stay home until the funding is approved. They also won’t be getting paid, at least not during the shut down. However, the minute the government is back on the job, the ‘non-essentials’ will return to work and also receive retroactive pay.
Yes, you read that right. In a perfect example of the screaming inefficiency of our government, the people sent home and told not to work, will be getting paid for not working. So, who is really getting hurt by the shutdown? NOBODY! The non-essentials will be given paid days off, and we the taxpayers will foot the bill.
Seriously. Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and John Stossel explain it all for us (the retroactive back pay is about 3:40 into the clip);
Back to the shutdown. Is it really as dangerous and deadly as we are hearing?
It must be. The President is so concerned, that he left DC to spend time on the campaign trail in Philadelphia and New York City. (There’s an election in 20 months you know.) Oh sure, before he left town Obama asked the leaders in Congress to ‘act like adults’ and get a budget approved. One wonders why he did not make that demand back in 2009 when a budget for this year should have been passed.
In spite of all the fear alarms ringing over a possible shutdown and the attendant blame-storming filling the cable news outlets, there is a little something called reality staring us in the face. Any shutdown will likely not last very long. On February 24th, a full six weeks ago, we learned from a frequent MSNBC guest, Charlie Cook, just how (not so) terrible this shutdown might be:
“Most Americans would never even know it if there was a two or six, or one day shutdown.”
If most Americans would not notice the short shutdown, who would feel it the most? The dreaded ‘non-essential’ worker? Oh wait, I forgot, they get paid for every day they don’t work.
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Comments (93)
jg725
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 12:35amthis guy says, “We Donot Need Department Of Labor” seriously were does he live … lol
Report Post »There are so many people out here in this world who really need and want to work , to get a “GOOD JOB” for us “little people” thats were we go . clinton were are you …. please come and straighten out our country . this world has changed so much through my years and all i see is the usa turning into a 3rd world country ….. we are just the pawns that make the government rich , and the foodstamps and medicaid omg ….. ok ,, i am going there ., i do not receive any of that . .. BUT my grandmother does she is 83 … can’t hear … cannot see…… really what can she do … yet she gets ssi and applies for foods stamps and they tell her she is only allowed 10 bucks …. :{ if anything i think they shouldn’t give the younger ppl as much as they do … there able to get off there butts and work … yet she struggles every months to buy her meds . so that she can stay alive ….. … ppl i tell you … this is the work of something bad ….. and i fear things are going to get worst …. what is a person to do …… ?
Hjax
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 2:49amHave you forgotten that you are able to help and support your family, just like the old days? There was even a time that we did not need old age homes, we had family.
Report Post »AlwaysLearning
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 12:12amAs a DoD contractor, I’ve worked through two shut downs. The civilians told to stay home as non-essentials did, indeed, get back pay when the budget was finally passed.
Report Post »idrathermisstotheright
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 12:06amShut it down. Democrats should live by principles if they had any, propose an amendment to Ryan’s budget taxing 75% of the income from all registered democrats with income over $200,000 and nothing is deductible and no tax credits allowed. Next they could impose a 25% tax on the remaining democrat voters to be fair. They have no principles, period!
49 million people pay no taxes and I wonder what that ratio is between Dems and repubs on that number. Let’s assume 30 million are Dems (probably low) then add 15 million illegal aliens you end up with 45 million democrat voters.
Amend the right to vote, you are not allowed to vote if you receive any payment from the govt except SS and you are not allowed to vote if you pay no taxes. This alone would save the country and stop the users from being abusers of our once great ideal.
Shut it down since we don’t have a budget do to their incompetence to begin with especially Mr Ried.
Report Post »Ozymandias
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 12:01amThis is why it is called “non-essential.” If we were going into battle, we’d shoot them for the ammo! Fideli Certa Merces
Report Post »ColdWarVet
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:53pmWouldn’t Barack Obama be considered a “non-essential” government employee?
Report Post »Don’t let the door hit your a$$ on the way out, and please do take your sweet time coming back. You will NOT be missed.
Maggie in Indiana
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:11pmCoool good for them and for us. Get those pesky vacation days pout of the way. So when we go on vacation there will be full towel racks and clean parks, and someone in the toll booth.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:32pmthe post office is concidered something we need? hahaha
we better NOT pay them for the time off. and while we are at it maybe we should leave them off work for evr if we dont need them why do we pay them?
Report Post »mikiegro
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:31pmWednesday is motown or disco night, no time for white house shut down.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:06pmThe government most likely only operates at 25% efficiency anyway. Shut ‘em down and dock their arses!
Report Post »Packer-dad
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:05pm@ AKIIKUEUS
Report Post »The lost in WI smells of al franklin victory in MN.I want to know which car trunk,the union thugs found the missing ballots in and where?
UpstateNYConservative
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:24pmWisconsin isn’t a sure thing. The margin of votes is about 300, which is about 0.02% of turnout, so a recount is pretty much inevitable. Even if the vote swings to the Dem, she won’t be seated until August, and the Court is likely to hear any appeals before then. Also, according to Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison poli-sci prof, one of the sitting Dems is as likely to vote one way as the other.
Only time will tell.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:03pmHow odd that Obama leaves the whitehouse to attend some other event when congress is in seesion to pass a budget that should have been done last year while the democrats controlled both houses. Meanwhile Obama wants people to act like adults, while he plays in somebody elses sandbox. While we are on the subject I want to make a statement to the worthless liberal press quit using us retired people for your excuse to continue with bad democratic policies, and quit using my grandchildren for an excuse to pass your failed agendas and further more your liberal buddies have been getting rich soaking tax payers like my children that are working there a$$ off to pay their bills and trying to keep their homes.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:12pmWELL SAID Miles
Report Post »I agree 100%
TexOkie
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:01pmI think the media would notice. They have so many non-essential personnel covering the government, they might consider their own shutdown.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:00pmShut it down.
Report Post »Restart parts as needed.
Defense first.
Then treasury.
Then ?
What else is needed?
Surely not Education, Energy, Commerce, or Justice,
These are waste and abuse.
Most of them are!
ONLY RESTART WHAT IS NECESSARY.
THIS IS WHAT CONGRESS IS FOR.
TexOkie
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:54pmIt is not true that NOBODY get hurt. The American tax payer gets hurt.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:50pm800.000 non-essential employees? can’t we just fire them,then not only will it cut government spending overall, it will save all that retroactive pay.
Report Post »entropy
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:43pmI read on a Dept of Justice website that the Govt estimates that there is approx 42 million deer hunting rifles in the hands of the American people. Think about that for a bit.
Report Post »entropy
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:39pmMark my word. The Repub cowards will cave in. They simply do not have the guts to go to the wall. I say let the welfare aholes riot. Let em. There are more than enough patriots to take out the trash.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:45pmReady to help, lock and loaded…
Report Post »Mister_Bill
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:27pmHey Banjarmon. I will support you. PULL, Click, Click, Boom Boom. This is America where we have the right, not to have collective bargaining, but to address the ills of the inequities of the Federal Government actions. Stand up and be counted Americans. Vote in 2012. The revolution continues then.
Report Post »myrkat
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:34pmThe bigger question is: Why is there even such a thing as “Non-essential” personnel? I’d say can them all, but since most of them likely have no marketable skills, nor entrepreneurial motivation, coupled with the fact that a lot are anti-business socialists, there is really no place for them to go.
Our country will probably have to burn to the ground before the makers & producers can actually fix all this, sadly.
Report Post »chimneyguy
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 11:58amSadly, you’re catching on. Our gov’t has become such a knotted mess that I believe the system is not equipped to fix it, even assuming the will to do so. Anything less than complete meltdown will fail to convince the current batch of clowns to get real. DON‘T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE FEDERAL RESERVE’S VERSION OF “MONEY”. Hope & work for the best while preparing for the worst. Stock up on usable & tradeable commodities with long shelf lives. Ammo comes to mind…
INCUMBENTS- THE “POLITICALLY CORRECT” ENDANGERED SPECIES!
Report Post »Navyveteran
Posted on April 8, 2011 at 9:55ammyrkat
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:34pm
The bigger question is: Why is there even such a thing as “Non-essential” personnel? I’d say can them all, but since most of them likely have no marketable skills, nor entrepreneurial motivation, coupled with the fact that a lot are anti-business socialists, there is really no place for them to go.
Our country will probably have to burn to the ground before the makers & producers can actually fix all this, sadly.
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Amazing the ignorance on this board. Just because someone who is labled as “non_essential” doesn‘t mean they don’t have a job to do. Non-essential personnell are people mostly in administration so that if there is inclement weather or whatever the case may be the only people that have to be at work are the essential people. You don’t really need administration workers in bad weather or severe weather, however in a hospital you still need your doctors and nurses to show up for work. I hope that clears things for you guys.
And I love my country, very patriotic and still willing to die if necessary to fight all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. Don’t lump me in with socialists and commies, if it wasn’t for the collapse of the economy I would be working outside the government.And let me put to rest about the crap I have been seeing about paid vacations. I worked on the outside all my life except for now here in government. I was allowed on the outside to accrue up to 240 hours of paid vacation, then I would no longer accrue vacation time. Guess what, same here with the government I can only accrue up to 240 hours then I go to use or lose status. Start asking questions instead of assuming at least you would seem to be wiser.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:32pmMeechelle’s top aide makes $162K
Wonder IF SHE gets a FREE Vacation?
OH wait she probably went to SPAIN
Our country is in trouble and BHO is in NY tonight being Al Sharpie’s pal
Report Post »SIGH Is he like totally clueless?
Just like those Lib/Dems that left Wisconsin…….
Exrepublisheep
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 2:07am$172,200 actually. Must be nice.
Report Post »Rugnuts
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:30pmi wish i was non essential
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:37pmOh, foot! High school English — “nonessential element.” Miss Penny never told us it was a government worker in a Democrat administration!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:27pmRetroactive, I gotta go work for these IDIOTS and take a lifetime sabbatical which according to governmental financial thinking will undoubtably pay me double time and a half.
Ok, my moment of greed is now over. I have no ambition to become another donut eating, coffee swilling, polyester wearing, sleeve wiping, half awake uncivil servant. Now ignoring number 13, number 13………….. Has anyone seen my red stapler?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:26pmIUf I were a Republican in Congress, I wouldn’t vote on a ding-dong thing until the Senate got off its butt and passed Paul Ryan’s budget!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:30pmShow:
Report Post »I hear ya, as far as I’m concerned all the Federal governments unessential except National defense and Immigration.
Showtime
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:39pmRight on, Days!
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 3:52amare you crazy – that budget has not even been brought up for debate nor gone thru the Committee process – don’t you know the steps for passing a bill. That budget doesn’t does even go into effect until Oct of. http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:25pmIs it any surprise that Obama left town? He’s kind like the democrat Wisconsin legislators, when the chips are down, he can’t be found.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:33pmDo you even know what you are talking about? Obama is meeting with Boehner and Reid right now.
Speaking of Wisconsin, looks like Gov Walker just had his bill shoved down his throat. The Republicans lost the election today. Dems will control the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Thank you Gov Walker for inciting the Democrat base. The fight has just begun.
Report Post »LOL, Gotta love it, when Rove and the Tea Baggers spent all the money in the last month and they lose. LOL
IronSights
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:38pmYou’ve heard of “flight or fight” response…….we‘ll we know what Borrack’s is, FLIGHT. I think it’s the government equivalent of voting “present”.
Out of all the presidents to date I think he’s the most cr@ptacular we’ve ever had.
Report Post »xoke
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:42pmRove and the “teabaggers” lol. I suppose the union support was free?
Neither here nor there, I’m OK with all of this…you know why, because it‘s happening at the state level and it’s constitutional. Unlike another bill recently passed by the federal government, that was shoved down peoples throats, and was unconstitutional. Obama Care, or whatever you would like to call it.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:45pmAmelie
AKMIIKEUS
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:33pm
Do you even know what you are talking about? Obama is meeting with Boehner and Reid right now.
Speaking of Wisconsin, looks like Gov Walker just had his bill shoved down his throat. The Republicans lost the election today. Dems will control the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Thank you Gov Walker for inciting the Democrat base. The fight has just begun.
LOL, Gotta love it, when Rove and the Tea Baggers spent all the money in the last month and they lose. LOL
Did ya know that a leading GOP lawery has drafted articles of impeachment and they are being presented to the house? He who laughs last laughs best.
Report Post »Mike Opelka
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:47pm@AK…
Report Post »Yes, the President is back in DC tonight, but only after bouncing from PA to NYC, campaigning and collecting more $$$ for his re-election efforts. It still does not diminish the issue – the budget should have been finished in late 2009… not in the second quarter of 2011. Your use of the insulting term ‘tea ******’ exposes your truth. Thanks for showing us who you are. God Bless America.
Mister_Bill
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:06pmHey Amerikus, this is so funny I still have not stopped laughing. Do you know the only thing that the Wisconsin Governor need to do to get this bill into law? Essentially the same thing the Charles Krauthammer said about the original bill. Just post the same bill again so that it meets all of the laws that the courts are deciding on now. Since there is a majority and since it does not matter if there is a quorum. they just pass it again with all of the court issues addressed. Then there can be discussion about what to do from there.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:06pmBet most of the votes by the communists were dead people, bunch of cheating, babies. They loose elections, falsify signatures on recall forms, have a democrat rule they are correct, they spend millions telling lies, fill in absentee ballots for dead people, bus in people form out of state to vote illegally, then brag that they won, makes me sick.
Doesn’t it make you guys sick that you have to lie and cheat to win? Doesn’t it bother you that your kids are going to live in slavery because you are brain dead idiots?
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:41pmWhat a tremendous victory for the people of Wisconsin. Prosser, who was backed by all the big Republican money and big out-of-state financial interests that out spent Kloppenburg more than two to one, is likely going down in defeat. Kloppenburg was backed by vested interests on the side of working people; Prosser was backed by vested interests on the side of the parasitic financial ruling elite.
All the Republican propaganda mouthpieces on rightwing radio couldn’t pull it out for Prosser. All the out-of-state parasitic financial money couldn’t pull it out for Prosser. All the Kochster and WMC half-truths couldn’t pull it out for their boy. It was the people of Wisconsin who finally said Enough is Enough who won it with their dedication, organizational talents and commitment to justice and workers’ rights. They triumphed over big Republican money and the rightwing radio propaganda machine. The people defeated a sitting Supreme Court Justice!
Walker, Belling, Sykes, the WMC and the Koch brothers kicked a hornets’ nest known as genuine democracy and they felt the wrath of the stings last night.
Even if GOP subterfuge and intimidation ultimately sways the recount in their favor it’s still a tremendous victory for middle class families and working people in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin came alive on April 5! Wisconsin came alive on April 5! Wisconsin came alive on April 5!
Report Post »People are dancing in the streets.
hifi74
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:35pmHey mike, do yourself a favor and put down the crack pipe. Kloppenberg got the majority of her money from out of state unions. And no she has not been declared anything but crazy so far. She claimed herself winner but with a margin of only 240 votes ( hmmm wasn’t that the margin of Frankens jail bird jollies victory? Coincidence ? I think not) there has been no declaration by the official election committee. Andast but not least Walker did not have his legally obtained bill shoved down his throat. You need to learn something about MY states law before glancing your mouthing proving your an idiot who hasn’t got a clue. It passed legally and the judge is proceeding illegally on false pretenses to be the activist hack that she is. Try again fool. No on second thought don‘t because I’m tired of your idiocy, get a clue kid.
Report Post »xoke
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:23pmI find this amusing. If we have a government shutdown…from what I gather essentially the most important stuff keeps on going.
They only shutdown “non-essential services.” If these services are non-essential…then why is our government doing them in the first place? I say pass a bill that keeps the military getting paid, and shut the whole damn thing down until next year.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:29pmA–A-A-A-MEN!
If they’re nonessential, why do they have a job to begin with? Start with the czars and work UP!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:43pmNonessential starts with the potus, then congress, then……
Report Post »booger71
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:08pmIt’s all about padding. Middle managers in the Fed get bonuses based upon the number of employees under them. They convince the higher ups they need more paper pushers who basically do nothing but push papers to other paper pushers. In 95 I was required to work, and the non essentials got to stay home. When it was over they got full back pay. Those of us who had to work were ticked off.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:19pmLOL .. one of these “services” is the IRS AUDITS!
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:20pmI can in part answer that. Even some of the “non essential” personnel work revolves completely around military strength support. Myself for example (although in fairness my dept. will be working because our money is allocated directly from the Navy at the beginning of the fiscal year) I work for Naval Facilities at Great Lakes NTC. We take care of most every facet of maintenance and repair to their buildings, utilities, GoV’s, even a steam plant. We are for all intents and purposes we are considered non essential even though our job is to directly support Naval training operations. I can confirm that it has happened in the past and in some cases will happen this time if there is another shutdown. It’s not right but it does happen. But even still there are some non essentials who really are quite essential especially to military operations.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 12:44amI grew up thinking it was up to the federal government to do the essential stuff and the states did the non essential stuff. The federal gov has taken on a life of its own and needs to be stripped of everything that can be done by the different states. That way is something does not work the whole nation does not suffer…..we can just read how someone like us idiots in CA suffer and we can point fingers and give advise.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 3:47amIf they shut down until next year, the IRS would not get getting your tax refund money to you until after October and those of you with Medicare – well, you doctors won’t be getting paid. Also, I believe VA benefits were not be going out until the shutdown was over. So, you see it does effect a lot of people including businesses they are open around National Parks who depend on tourist for their incomes – since the National Parks would be closed also. http://maboulette.wordpress.
Report Post »chimneyguy
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 11:46amYep. By the way, the IRS is not essential…
Report Post »lindap1667
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 4:10pmthat is easy to say if you are not a elderly person on medicade or my job working for a place that is paid by medicaid (group home for kids)
Report Post »Wilkins
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 11:46pmThe founders designed a small government. Keep the list of everyone who got notice that they’re “non-essential”. It‘ll be handy when the TP returns government to the size it’s supposed to be, based on the Constitution.
Report Post »BigBouy
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:17pmTakers get even more!
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:48pmWell the poor contractors that do all the real work will be hurt, they won’t get paid for their time off, but you can bet your life, they will have to pick up all the pieces and get everything back going when the budget is approved, and won’t get any credit for it. The minority owned companies that contract the contractors will be hurt some, but if they are paying the contractors that actually do the real work 100k, they are getting paid 300k, so they can pocket 100k, and kick 100k back to election campaigns of members of congress, so a few weeks of getting paid for doing nothing won’t hurt them.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:08pmStarve the Beast! Shut the Progressive Machine down!! Shut ‘er down!!!
All we have to do is look across the pond my dear Blazer friends, to see the abject failure of a swath of Socialist countries – can you say PIIGS fly?? ROFLOL, Greece, Ireland now Portugal are all bankrupted by their socialist policies, yet our fine feathered liberal friends want to copy that? There is more to ti my friends, depopulation is what the elites want…they want us all to revolt, enough people die, the corpses spread desease and pretty soon the world is down their 500 million sustainable threshold – way to go NWO, you’re almost there, Just check out the Georgia Guidestones erected by who knows who…R.C. Christian does not exist. Go see it for yourselves, the NWO is telling us what they are doing and going to do, it is in their charter to do so:
Here is the first line:
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature
http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm
Have a nice day, have a lager!
Report Post »Packer-dad
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:10pmIs this not party night for the POTUS in the white house,it’s wednesday
CatB
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:16pmWith all the vacation days these Public Servants get .. how long will it take before people really notice they are gone? Even tax returns that are filed electronically with refunds will be processed… so if you haven‘t filed yet don’t do it by mail .. unless of course you owe!
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:50pmPart of the point of shutting down the government is that non-essential workers should not get paid. This is not Constitutional.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:02pmTell the “non-essentials” that the only way they will get paid is out of the pockets of the demoncrats themselves.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:06pmI guess it really pays to be insulted and called ‘non-essential’. It’s true that the ripple effect from this shutdown will affect contractors and other private firms doing business with the government, and for their sake, may a shutdown be short. Why does it always seem to come up roses for government employees? They get paid more than private workers and now they’ll get paid for not working. By the way, is Biden going to get paid?
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 3:42amYes, President Obama did got to PA today but he also came back to the White House and had a late night meeting with Speaker Boehner and the Majority leader. So, I guess he does consider it to be a situation that needs to be taken care of. Also does your 800.000 none essential employees including the millions of contract employees that work for the government on contracts throughout the United States and abroad? Just checking because I don’t believe they will be getting paid either.
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BugInEar
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 2:58pmTher are many positions in the Fed that can be considered worthless. I do however feel for the Border Patrol Agents and other Law Enforcement Personel who will work and not be paid until an agreement is reached.
Congress will not get paid either, but I doubt any of them are living paycheck to paycheck.
Report Post »Navyveteran
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 5:11pmI don’t know how correct this is, but I will give it to you straight. I work for the government and I am non-essential worker. This is what I have been told of on Monday and today. Monday I have heard that either we will be off for two weeks or more. I will not be able to use my leave, I would have to go on unemployment until the budget has been approved. Or that I could still work during the shutdown and not get paid until the budget has been approved and I will then be paid retroactively.
Today I was told that even though I am considered non-essential durring inclement weather, because what I do at the hospital I may be considered essential. There is not any new information nothing that I have been told Monday could be confirmed nor denied and we are basically hanging. Since I work for a hospital finding out in terms of a shutdown my status of non-essential has not been confirmed and to come in Monday no matter what and we will hear what will be done then and whether I am essential or not when it comes to this shutdown. Tuesday I will let you know what I have heard next Monday on what will be done with us.
Even if I am not paid and I have to work or can’t work and collect unemployment I want the tea party representatives to not BUCKLE and stick to thier guns. I served in the military and I am used to sacrificing my personal welfare for the good of my country. No matter what God will provide!
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