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Home Front: Politix
Furloughed Workers to Get Back Pay? (Working is for suckers)
2013-10-05
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

#3  Actually this is probably good because the closure can now go longer without stories of starving employees working on everyone's guilt. The nation can see how well it runs on minimal government. Heck we even have enough to deny folks from places they have every reasonable right to go and that's with the essential people so clearly the non-essential numbers were not a complete list.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-10-05 21:58  

#2  I wouldn't say I feel like a "sucker" - it's more like betrayed.

Yeah. Passed the House unanimously? Not one objected to the unfairness? I was feeling lucky and proud that my agency has enough in reserve to keep us working and getting paid through the end of October. Although an unpaid vacation would've been nice. A PAID vacation?!?! What a racket. Can't believe I'm saying this, but I hope the unions at better-managed agencies like mine make a stink.
Posted by: RandomJD   2013-10-05 16:51  

#1  Should have just classified them as 'illegals' to get the same effect. However, 800,000 federal employees count when you're cooking the books on tax revenue coming in. They make up the difference with the volume. /sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-10-05 12:44  

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