originally posted in:Secular Sevens
[quote]“Republicans have to realize how many significant gains we’ve made over the last three years, and we have, not only in cutting spending but in really turning the tide on other things," Ross told The New York Times. "We can’t lose all that when there’s no connection now between the shutdown and the funding of Obamacare."
"I think now it’s a lot about pride," he added.[/quote]
-Dennis Ross
So the average income of a federal employee is ~$78,500. One paycheck would then roughly be $3,720. Assuming the 80,000 federal workers have missed out on a paycheck, they've collectively missed out on $261,600,000. That's how much the pride of one man in congress is worth. If his colleagues agree that this is now about pride, then obviously that would be applicable to them as well.
At this point I don't care who's fault it is, who started it, etc. The fact that families are no longer getting paid because one man's, or a group's pride is now at stake, is disgusting. Yes they will be paid retroactively, but the fact that we're even in this situation because of someone's pride baffles me. But I guess that's politics in a nutshell.
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They better not get paid retroactively. I'd prefer not to pay people for nothing.
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Irony.
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Clarify.
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I don't want to be another one of those people who assume all congress does is mess around and get paid for nothing all the time, but in this case, their job is to keep this country running. At the moment, Boehner is starting to say that we are heading towards a default. I'm not going to peg this on Republicans or democrats, but I will say that in this case, congress is failing at their jobs, whoever you want to blame. I know we can't alter their pay, and I'm not saying that's even realistic, but at the moment we are paying people for essentially sitting on their thumbs either way.
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Don't disagree at all.