Anybody furloughed?

[cldlhd]

Ridiculous how they punish the public by closing the parks and museums. Like they're not sure if they can pay the back wages to the employees, gtfo of here with that.

None of the money is real anyway, it's all just electronic data moving around. They could easily pay everyone and just move more borrowed electronic Chinese dollars back into the "pool" when we turn the tap on again.

They only close the parks and such to make this seem truly dramatic, as if they're not just going to start right back up again when both sides stop being so childish.

So the "money's not real" ? So pay me a million.

 

[swcrow]

Contractors (who aren’t being paid) are too frequently forgotten in all of this.

Anytime there was a furlough and I was a government contractor, our contracts were T&M and we had already been paid for the work, so I was never involved in it.