Pay and Pension in the White House
This government shutdown is so frustrating on many levels, but what really pisses me off is the political players are getting paid while our men and women in the military aren't. Term limits, pay scale, pensions, it's all wacky and the only people who can make a change are the only ones who will suffer if they do.
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I think it was a republican who drafted the bill to freeze pay. Yet they blame the democrats. Flush all these turds down the drain when it’s time to vote. ALL of them.
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It sucks - I just got home after being told to leave work. Been a DOD employee for 40 years and been through plenty of these - most end up being a paid vacation for me which I actually hate. I'd rather work. The real power stands with us federal workers - we should show up to work anyway - but I can't get others to join me. If Fed workers would just show up anyway the leverage of a Gov shutdown would disappear and we wouldn't be used as pawns.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42766159
US shutdown: White House voicemail changed to blame Democrats . The Vice-President just told troops in the field that Democrats are playing games with their pay. I am all ways disgusted when the parties us the Military as a political toy.. the longest shut down lasted 17 days fyi Note: Each servicemember has the option of receiving his or her pay one or two times a month. If they select to receive their pay twice a month they will receive semi-monthly pay on the 15th of each month - if the 1st or 15th falls on Saturday or Sunday, payday is the Friday before. so this line the dems are taking pay away from the Troops is a lie and when it ends everyone gets back pay no one losses any money :kewl::kewl: what hasn't been mentioned since Oct this is what the 4th CR and dems approved and went along with the 1st 3 ... Republicans thought the could feed the dems what ever they wanted and the dems would blink its what they usually do ... and play along ... this time they did not and Republicans dont know what to do besides scream Obstruction which i find ironic coming from the party of NO |
Freaking GOP holds both houses of Congress and the Presidency and can't even fund the government. Big problem here is POTUS doesn't understand his own position and hence nobody can negotiate.
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But Spence. Trump is the great deal maker ! Oh wait. He’s also the master of bankruptcy. What a train wreck.
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I don't mind that they get paid. They are working to try to get a budget passed. I hope that the gov. ees that are required to come to work are getting paid.
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Part of this, at least a part, is whether or not it's acceptable for the minority party to demand that an un-related issue (like, oh, say DACA) be inserted into a bill required to pass to keep the government operating. When the GOP was in the minority and they threatened to do the same thing, Schumer et al had some harsh criticism for them. We have seen those videos. How is this any different form that? They all stink, both parties, and we need non-ideologues who can actually solve problems. |
The GOP did not even have unity in its own party.
"A shutdown falls on the President's lack of leadership. He can't even control his party and get people together in a room. A Shutdown means the President is weak" Donald Trump 2013 I do think it is time for some new politicians and I think the past year will produce some. |
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The folks living paycheck to paycheck could be hurting if this drags out. |
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Military is paid through till 1st of February. Me thinks this is all to deflate the upcoming state of the union address. What pisses me of is if you search each senator & congressman (woman) annual government salary, how many years they have served, and their net worth.......... How the hell can a senator making $190k a year, serve whatever many years and be worth 10-100s of millions ??? The math doesn’t add up other than each and every one of them is taking huge sums of $$$ for corporate and outside us influence! Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
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True. It's also true that if they had all the Republican senators, that would have had exactly zero effect on the outcome. True or false? I like that there are moderate Republicans. Sometimes they do things I like, sometimes they don't. "The issue here isn't the Dems or even DACA " Then your issue isn't the shutdown. Because the Dems caused the shutdown by demanding that DACA be part of it. DACA has nothing to do with operational funding. "even DACA which most everyone supports" If that's true, then we have a responsibility to let our elected officials know that. That has nothing to do with the operational budget. The ems inserted it in there thinking it would put pressure on the GOP to pass it. It didn't work. "the issue is the disconnect between the Senate Republicans and the Whitehouse" No, it's not. Because even if all the Republican senators were in agreement, we'd be in the same exact situation. They don't have 60 seats. They should let the dems have their way with DACA, and th eprice is the dems agree to the wall. Hell, the tax windfall we're getting from Apple alone will fund the wall. |
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3 R senators didn't vote for it and 2 D senators did, IIRC.
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Then using that logic, isn't that what the Democrats are now? "the GOP has not idea on how to Govern" It would appear that the public disagrees with you. The GOP controls the White House, both chambers of Congress, and a HUGE majority of state legislatures and governorships. How do you explain that? |
[QUOTE=JohnR;1135700]3 R senators didn't vote for it and 2 D senators did,
Those 2 D are up for re-election Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
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President Donald Trump says he is pleased that congressional Democrats "have come to their senses" baaaa...haaaa...haaa :hihi: |
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It's all about being able to say I blah...blah...blahh
They have screwed things up so bad lawyering the rules to death in the last 40 years that we need to do a hard reset on Congress and get it back to how it is supposed to work. The way it works best is if you have to compromise to get things to pass, it keeps things pretty much in the middle, middle is good. |
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People are dumb |
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Letting the liberal AND conservatives have too much power has put us where we are today Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...ok/1019429001/
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The state’s population increased by 0.8% due to net migration in 2016, more than double the 0.3% national figure and the ninth highest rate of any state. The fastest shrinking states 4. Connecticut •1-yr pop. growth rate: -0.23% •Current population: 3.58 million •2015 population: 3.58 million •10-yr pop. growth rate: 1.68% The population of Connecticut shrank by 0.2% in 2016, the fourth largest decline of any state. Connecticut’s population has declined substantially in recent years, and the state has lost a net total of approximately 20,000 residents since 2013. Many of those leaving Connecticut are young, college-educated professionals. Since 2010, the median age in Connecticut has risen from 40.0 years to 40.9 years. The population loss has likely hurt the state’s economic potential. While the U.S. GDP grew by 12.1% from the second quarter of 2006 to the second quarter of 2016, Connecticut’s GDP fell by 3.7%, the largest contraction of any state over that time other than Nevada. |
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If I didn't care about being near my parents, I'd move to Fort Mill SC. A suburb of Charlotte NC. Very low taxes, insanely good schools, good quality of life. Much cheaper than CT. I know 3 upper middle-class families that moved from CT to Sunnappee, NH. They are saving a fortune, they say they sacrificed nothing in terms of quality of life, and will never come back. And I did the math that helped my brother move his family and his business from Litchfield CT to the suburbs of Nashville. Everything is new down there, everything is awesome. He is saving more than $1,000 a month in taxes. Over a couple of decades, it's a fortune. He would say that CT offers not a single thing to justify that extra $1,000 a month. Zip. There are lots of places that are a better bang for the buck. There just aren't any in the blue New England states that I know of. Not coincidentally, the places I mentioned are on Amazon's list of finalists for the new HQ. CT was bounced in the first round. Yet the elite liberals here claim you get what you pay for, that CT is awesome while the south is nothing but fried twinkies and trailer parks. In the cities I mentioned, they cannot build $450,000 houses fast enough. Most of the people buying those houses are tax refugees from New England. These people want all the services they are used to...they just don't want to overpay for them. And they found out, they don't have to. |
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