Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
by praneshp on Friday January 25, 2019 @12:30PM
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Senators/house reps being paid has a simple reason I think: The richer ones will simply wait out the poorer ones if pay is suspended.
Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
by sabujp on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:44AM
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lol@thinking that people in power will vote to not pay themselves
Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
by samstave on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:50AM
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Ha - Yeah thats the point... Meaning - Why isn't this a larger talking point? (Aside from the fact that we have more millionaires and billionaires in political positions than ever - so they are frankly the 'working-class' who would not be impacted by a pay furlough)
Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
by graedus on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:19PM
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> we have more millionaires and billionaires in political positions than ever
I was curious about the numbers on this in terms of congress members. It doesn't appear that anyone in congress specifically is actually a billionaire as of 2016[0], but over half of them are millionaires as of 2014[1]. Of course there are non-congress members that are billionaires (Trump, DeVos, Ross, some governors, etc)[2].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/us/politics/more-than-hal...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_richest_American_polit...
edit: added information
* Are senators/house reps being paid? If so - Why?
* If the government is going to shit on people like this - then why are those people required to pay a tax (which is money extracted from the population to pay for services which the government provides - if the government refuses to provide those services, then why would you be obligated to pay a tax - thus the shutdown should be filed as an exemption during tax season)
* How in the fucking world is it that someone can "shutdown" the government in the first place??
* If you had a CEO who was embroiled in this much scandal - wouldn't you question "So, what is it you'd say you actually do around here?"[0] -- What is the actual NORMAL day-to-day expectation of a POTUS which has not been done bythis POTUS in the course of his employment?
* How can you claim to be a country based on rule of law with such shenanigans? Such that it undermines the willingness of the people to follow the rule of law in ever aspect of the spectrum.
https://youtu.be/m4OvQIGDg4I?t=51