Government Shutdown - Does it really shut much down?
3.2 trillion of the federal budget is automatically funded. Just who is this article talking about feeling the pinch. I mean a few administrators that should not exist anyway... wish the shut down would last longer maybe we could save a bit in the budget but the truth is it would make a very small impact because so few are effected.
The best example from the Obama shut down was when they put cones along the side of the road so that people couldn't pull off the road and look at the view of the park -- because the park was "shut down".
Someone please tell me where these idiot reporters are getting their training?
Aside from my obvious glee at the IRS not working (and I wish they would never get paid), I would hope that someone, somewhere, would teach this reporter the difference between affect and effect.
And not-so secondarily, if there is such a thing as a "non-essential" government employee," then why is he employed by the government?
Me dino knows some are working at ending the shutdown.
If only they all could stay preoccupied like that for much longer.
I kind of like a government shutdown, perhaps a more permanent one so I can live my life without being bothered by so many bureaucrats.
Then I woke up.
Until then, the power to create money from nothing and to tax (steal) production from producers gives control of all the people to government, and government will never give up that control. The federal government has been getting bigger for over 200 years and that will not stop until the people take back the control and repeal the federal reserve act, the 16th amendment, and stop government from stealing power by redefining the meaning of the limits the constitution places on government, e.g, the necessary and proper clause, and the interstate commerce clause.
The usual decision is to allocate money from the budget for back pay. If this is the case they do get paid in the rears (just the 14% that is not automatically funded) and the rest get paid and work anyway.
So for the 14% its a paid vacation that you get the pay when the vacation is over (most likely) and the other 86% just keep working like normal.