Oh the humanity! The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation is starting to write stories about the poor gummint employees who are suffering during the partial gummint shutdown. Golly, in one of the stories, the wife had to take a job as a waitress because her husband wasn’t receiving a paycheck. Sob! Sob! Sob!
Meanwhile Dimocrats are partying in Puerto Rico with the cast of Hamilton. Don’t they care about these starving gummint employees who are about to lose their homes because they won’t be able to pay their mortgages?
These poor downtrodden gummint employees are actually getting a paid vacation altho’ it may be a while until they get that pay. Congress has already voted to give them all of their back pay when the shutdown ends. The time they missed won’t count as vacation time. They are set to get a windfall. Do I feel sorry for them? Nope.
Gummint employees (I refuse to call them workers) get paid more than people in the private sector. Their benefits are better as well. This shutdown will eventually end and their lives will be back to normal. Maybe if they want to go back to work, they should pressure the Dimocrats, whom most of them voted for, to give Trump the money for his wall. In the federal budget, $5 billion is a pittance. It’s a rounding error.
Meanwhile, the AJC will continue running sob stories about the poor gummint employees trying to stave off starvation and home foreclosures. Most of us don’t care.
I don’t.
Me neither, F ’em. It’s not the goverments’s job to provide jobs.
Why require deadbeat Dems to even show up for a hard day’s nap, when you can just E-mail them their “entitlement” check instead? And how much do we save with buyouts of those laid off? Those “nonessential” jobs never mattered or else they would not have been furloughed.
When you work for a “boss” that is reckless, irresponsible and just doesn’t care about their customers, there’re prices to be paid. This is one of them.
The screaming will really start when they all go back to work and the .gov gives them all their back pay in one lump-sum check. The size of the checks will probably bump all of them into the highest income-tax bracket, heh, heh, heh.
Been there, had it happen several times.
The forbidden question, of course, is “what about all the poor bastards who lost their jobs, their cars, their homes, their families as a result of the economic malaise of the DingleBarry administration?”
And that’s not even to mention the lost lives of police officers killed as a direct result of his racist policies which gave rise to BLM and AnTiFa . . . or the thousands of dead and/or displaced people in the Middle East because of his creation of ISIS.
“Gummint employees (I refuse to call them workers) get paid more than people in the private sector. Their benefits are better as well.”
Well, sir, I work for the Post Office so that ain’t quite the same as folks who’re gettin’ furloughed right now, but since I started thirty-some years ago, all the UPS drivers delighted in tellin’ me how much more an hour they were makin’. With seniority, I might be up there to where their top hourly earners are, but I’m part-time so I ain’t likely to come anywhere near the average driver’s income.
And I get pretty tired of hearin’ about my benefits. Even the newest guys from UPS are aghast at the idea of us guys with the competition have to pay part of the health care premiums. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad for what my job provides but a few years ago I checked into what I’d get in retirement. Three years or so back, I’d’ve made around twelve hundred a month. That was before taxes, health and life insurance and such, so oops, there goes probably a third. Of course, if I wanted the survivorship option so my darlin’ bride would get anything if’n I kick the bucket before her, the check would drop by close to another third but then the amount she’d get is roughly half of that. Oh yeah, and she doesn’t get to keep the health insurance. I’m grateful for what I’ve got, but it ain’t all that most folks think when it comes to pay and bennies.
And so why don’t you work for UPS? Its pure BS to say another job is better but not try to get that one. Obviously not the complete story. There is a reason you stay. Everything is a trade off and you made the choice.
Glad you are grateful for you’re what you have. I would say you are pretty fortunate as well.
T. Don, I had to go back to see if the problem was my phrasin’ or, possibly, your readin’ comprehension. Sounds to me as though you might be projectin’ just a little bit, with your thinkin’ that I should grab every penny I can and not concentrate on balancin’ work and enjoyment. I did NOT say another job was better. My only intention was to point out that there’re jobs in the private sector that compensate more with pay and benefits than my “gummit” gig. Hell, if money was the thing, CHP was willin’ to hire me back in ’69 for almost twice what I made at the job from which I was drafted. Would’ve made big bucks, with all medical and dental covered for little out of pocket and could’ve taken advantage of the State’s Public Safety early retirement clause and probably be takin’ home more now with that check than I make goin’ to work 6 days a week.
Care to walk back that “pure BS” statement a bit, now? If it was all about the money, I could’ve tried medical school, or law, or lots of other fields. The Big Guy saw fit to give me at least another 50 years after I could’ve bought the farm and I think I’ve done okay with the time.
Not quite on topic but I just read that Laura Loomer lead a bunch of illegals to set up camp in Nancy Pelosi’s Napa Valley backyard! Awesome!
Give it another week and the RIF process can start. Get rid of the deputies and the other 19 levels of (mis)”management” and construction of the wall can begin.
Speaking as a retired government employee, if you are living week to week as so many people do, its on you. I used to do that, spend it as quick as I made it, keep balances on my credit cards, by that new car “0” down. The government cant be held responsible for personal irresponsibility.
Husband is a DOD employee. Retired Navy. What about when dingleberry had sequestration. He made it as hard on us as possible. We didn’t get back pay when it was over. I say to all those Employees an old navy term “pick your rate choose your fate!”
No one is going to have their home foreclosed after two week without a pay check. It takes months for the process to even start. A mortgage holder will let you slide for several months if you just call them and let them know that you are going to pay once the shutdown is over. This is just Liberal hyperbole and political drama.
Hey Denny;
I really ain’t feeling any sympathy….Where were the tears when I lost my job because it went to Mexico? Where were the reporters crying alligator tears over the fate of me and my friends and many others from the crappy policies from the obammessiah , we were expected to deal with it on my own and we did, we found new jobs and moved on. Now most of the .gov workers voted for the democrats and now they reap the whirlwind of their poor decision making processes.
How did a Marxist political party destroy our;
supreme court and constitution?
exploiting,blackmailing extorting, etc.