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People working in the private sector on salary do that all the time. They might work 60-80 hours a week and don't get any overtime pay or even any extra pay at all for those additional hours.
Try that on a modest salary. Most get under 100k, only 3k out of 800k employees of the federal government is paid 100k or more. I'm sorry but most don't make cushy wages/salaries that they COULD save a few months let alone over a year like you suggest. Also keep in mind, most government shutdowns aren't as long as this one.
i did iit many time on 30k. I knew better than live above my means, high dollar truck, big house. i was taught to live off 80% of payroll and never touch the rest. needed money, pull a side job
five billion not even going buy the right of way, it might do , a hundred miles of fence, give him the money. Its over in 45 minutes, he is good on campaign promises,, and it will never come up again
It is abundantly clear at this point that Washington legislators do not respect Fed workers. Conservatives not respecting them we already know of. But the political machine in DC - either side of the aisle - is clearly happy to routinely use Fed employees' livelihoods as bargaining chips as they spar over their agendas.
If I were these guys, I'd be walking out and organizing a strike. I know, it sounds like a wet dream for a conservative. No government! Take it down to zero employees! Well, let's test that. Let's have a true government shutdown, if that's what we want. Right now, we shut down the part about their paychecks but still expect them to provide the service.
No air traffic control. No airport security. Take it down to zero. Watch air travel grind to a halt.
Coast guard, FDA food inspections, drug approvals, homeland security...same thing. Bring it all to a halt.
Do that a few times when politicians get frisky and maybe the *******s in Washington will get the message that screwing around with people's livelihoods who are actually doing an important service to our society is not acceptable.
Politicians can spar over walls and whatever the hell else, but they shouldn't be able to hold peoples' ability to pay for their kid's school and for the roof over their head as hostage for leverage.
You have to remember that many (obviously not all) conservatives have never and will never leave their little rural areas. They aren't going to care if air travel grinds to a halt... they're not going anywhere anyway. So that wouldn't really affect them.
You have to remember that many (obviously not all) conservatives have never and will never leave their little rural areas. They aren't going to care if air travel grinds to a halt... they're not going anywhere anyway. So that wouldn't really affect them.
From the posting since this debacle started, I would say you just described half the people commenting on here. Add to that low I.Q. and extremely brainwashed.
People working in the private sector on salary do that all the time. They might work 60-80 hours a week and don't get any overtime pay or even any extra pay at all for those additional hours.
I didn't say reduced pay. I said no pay. But please, keep dodging the question. Then there is the question, is 6 months really enough. The Neo-Fuhrer is scheduled to remain in office for at least 2 years.
From the posting since this debacle started, I would say you just described half the people commenting on here. Add to that low I.Q. and extremely brainwashed.
You might want to rethink which party is plagued with low IQ. Read the data...
Percent of Public Assistance Program Recipients Who Identify as:
Democrat:
Public Housing: 81%
Medicaid: 74%
Food Stamps: 67%
Welfare or public assistance: 63%
Republican:
Public Housing: 12%
Medicaid: 16%
Food Stamps: 20%
Welfare or public assistance: 22%
Data source: Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
i did iit many time on 30k. I knew better than live above my means, high dollar truck, big house. i was taught to live off 80% of payroll and never touch the rest. needed money, pull a side job
You could be the most irresponsible person in the world and it won't justify not getting paid.
five billion not even going buy the right of way, it might do , a hundred miles of fence, give him the money. Its over in 45 minutes, he is good on campaign promises,, and it will never come up again
Exactly. There is a new bridge being built in the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor. Price? At least 1.2 Billion dollars. Just for a bridge. Meanwhile throwing the sanctuary employers in prison would be far cheaper and effective than a wall.
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