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Furloughed Workers to Get Back Pay? (Working is for suckers)
Pappy - am I reading this right?
Yes, you are. Unfortunately.
With the partial shutdown entering its fifth day, the GOP-run House passed a bill Saturday that would make sure the furloughed workers get paid for not working. The White House backs the bill and the Senate was expected to OK it, too, but the timing was unclear.

The 407-0 vote in the House was uniquely bipartisan, even as lawmakers continued their partisan rhetoric.

Making the shutdown less painful for 800,000 federal employees will encourage Congress and the White House to extend it even longer, driving up the cost, said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense.

Ellis said "essential" federal workers who stayed on the job "will feel like suckers because they've been working while the others essentially are getting paid vacations.
I wouldn't say I feel like a "sucker" - it's more like betrayed.

Posted by: Glenmore 2013-10-05
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=377114