Pittfan03 wrote:

06hawkalum wrote:

Pittfan03 wrote:I probably won't get paid for about a month. I want to getting this paycheck coming up on the 1st, and hopefully I get the one on the 15th assuming that it's resolved in time. Both sides of this are absolutely #$!&@ idiotic.

Get the fuck out of here with this "both sides" baloney. Congress passed a bipartisan bill to keep you paid. There is exactly one person that is fucking you over and his name is Donald J. Trump.

This bullshit shutdown issue has been used as a threat for years. I truly can't say what i think for obvious reasons but it's crap that the politicians keep their paychecks while not finding mine.

And stop, just stop. This shit affects a lot of people who are not very financially stable because of how early on they are in their careers, and it's both parties.

Trump was going to sign it until Hannity and Coulter threw a hissy fit about it. The WH is responsible for this shutdown. Trump called for it repeatedly and said he would be proud to do it. Trump is proud to withhold your pay.

It is more fun to get a large check than a few smaller checks anyway.

Enjoy.

The museums are open.

I'm in the same boat Pittfan....same boat.

joboggi wrote:Museums are open. We are there.

Closing 1/1/19

Saw some idiot claiming that this is all overblown. People will get paid. That is straight up ignorant. Part of the argument was that people plan for disruptions, so they should access their emergency fund. Part of the argument was that people plan for disruptions, so they should access their emergency fund. 57% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings. Now let’s face, that is it’s own problem, but then if you double down and recognize that this is coming at the beginning of the month when people have to pay rent, and at the end of the year when people have likely spend more to celebrate Christmas, those missing paychecks are going to hurt. Even if you pay late, you’re going to pay a price. And if you a young contractor, you’re never getting paid. And if you start to look at those bands that are just outside of of the direct pay, there are economic hits at places like restaurants, transportation, municipal taxation, that never get measured either.

This is being painted as a DC problem (those villains living in the capital), but as 702 and Pitt demonstrate, this is a bigger impact. DC will be easiest to grasp because of the the concentration with visible closed monuments, museums, and HQ offices.

Russia has built a 60km fence on the border with Ukraine on the north of the Russian-annexed Crimea, according to the de facto Crimean authorities.

Who had the idea for a wall first? Putin acted first.

thephan wrote:

joboggi wrote:Museums are open. We are there.

Closing 1/1/19

1/2 last day open.

Nat gallery of art checked myself.

Don't plan to go New year's.

May go New year's Eve day and prob today.

While you are downtown pick up some federal workers to paint a fence or something.

CASA does that it is very organized. Tell your friends to go sit at CASA, on wed.

You never know, they may wind up at my house.

Gallup hold on most admired people is interesting this year. Hillary is locked in a tie with 4% with Melania. They both get crushed by Michelle Obama with 15%.

On the male side of the equation you have Obama at 19% followed by trump at 13% followed by the pope and GW Bush at 2%. Curiously mega philanthropist Bill Gates weighs in at 1%. I don’t think I would’ve had them on my list to be honest, but he has likely done more good than almost everybody else on the list. That’s a subjective measure of course.

Somewhat hilariously related to Obama be Trump, the person presenting the information as a commentator on CNN said that Donald J Trump won the electoral college vote on that pole.

Blaming 'both parties' for this shutdown is foolish.

pacino wrote:Blaming 'both parties' for this shutdown is foolish.

The Democrats have their chance, they ran Hillary Clinton. Don’t ask anybody in Wisconsin about it. Buyers remorse won’t help anyone.

Trump just stopped our pay increase too....

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/29/politics ... o9d5-01Vtg

Trump issues executive order freezing federal workers' pay in 2019

Niceeee. Merry forking Christmas you filthy animals.

(Sorry TC, 702, Pitt & otter fed pals)

threecount wrote:Trump just stopped our pay increase too....

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/29/politics ... o9d5-01Vtg

lazy Dems like you just want more handouts

threecount wrote:Trump just stopped our pay increase too....

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/29/politics ... o9d5-01Vtg

What a shitty boss!

But he declared 2018 the year of the worker!

momadance wrote:But he declared 2018 the year of the worker!

well FY'18 ended the last day of September. 2019 is the year of talking it back from thieving rat bastards.

not so BREAKING NEWS:

Prez says that any deaths on his watch are the fault of.... THE DEMS...

I'm not looking it up, but it was a tweet.

He is just trying to find an opponent, anyone, to attack. Not much has stuck lately so he just keeps pressing the pedal harder.