GOP congressman Fed workers shoulda saved more

[edward37]

Tell you what, Congressman, let's cut off your paycheck during a shutdown and see how long you can live without one. I'm pretty sure you've become accustomed to living a certain lifestyle and that lifestyle ain't cheap! Could you pay your bills for all your luxuries or even your essentials if you lost your paycheck? I'd say something about having to work without getting paid but we all know you get paid for doing nothing anyway so it would be a moot point.

 

[Oddball]

If you're a federal bureaucrat, with all the well-above-private-sector pay and bennies you get, and don't have savings or at least good enough credit to tide you over in situations like this, tough shit.

 

[mdk]

He’s not wrong, but it’s sort of comical to get a lesson on austerity from a member of an institution that has placed us in a tremendous amount of debt.

 

[rightwinger]

Federal workers should realize how inept congress is

 

[g5000]

Tell you what, Congressman, let's cut off your paycheck during a shutdown and see how long you can live without one. I'm pretty sure you've become accustomed to living a certain lifestyle and that lifestyle ain't cheap! Could you pay your bills for all your luxuries or even your essentials if you lost your paycheck? I'd say something about having to work without getting paid but we all know you get paid for doing nothing anyway so it would be a moot point.

Link?

 

[g5000]

Yeah, a Congressman who has helped double the deficit and add trillions to our debt, and who is probably a millionaire many times over, is lecturing about living within one's means and saving money.

Why don't their heads explode from cognitive dissonance?

Oh, that's right. That would require COGNITION.

Why doesn't God strike these ******* hypocrites with a lightning bolt?

 

[edward37]

If you're a federal bureaucrat, with all the well-above-private-sector pay and bennies you get, and don't have savings or at least good enough credit to tide you over in situations like this, tough shit.

Perry defended his remarks to PennLive, saying that the broader point he was making was that all employees, whether public or private sector, ought to have a savings to rely on in emergencies like a government shutdown.

“It’s actually part of what you do when you sign up for any public service position,” said Congressman Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina), chair of the House Freedom Caucus, of which Perry is a member.

Meadows and Perry make $174,000 a year as members of Congress. Meanwhile, a CareerBuilder survey found that 78 percent of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. 40 percent of Americans can’t afford food and shelter.


And while 44 percent of Americans cannot cope with a $400 emergency, nearly two-thirds of Americans cannot handle a $1000 emergency with their savings.

Relatively new Customs and Border Protection agents, who are arguably the federal employees who stand to engage with if not benefit from the border wall, make $45,000 a year, but will work without pay during the shutdown. Assuming biweekly pay, that means that before taxes, the paycheck they’ll miss is $1,700.

Well over what most Americans can afford. And that’s only one paycheck. The shutdown of 1995-1996 lasted almost a month. Trump has indicated that this shutdown will be a long one.

Perry only narrowly won re-election, but is already making the case to his constituents that he doesn’t understand their financial situation.

 

[Timmy]

If you're a federal bureaucrat, with all the well-above-private-sector pay and bennies you get, and don't have savings or at least good enough credit to tide you over in situations like this, tough shit.

Look, maybe a fed secretary gets more than a private secretary, but many feds are in professional fields and get paid a lot less than private counterparts.

 

[g5000]

If you're a federal bureaucrat, with all the well-above-private-sector pay and bennies you get, and don't have savings or at least good enough credit to tide you over in situations like this, tough shit.

Perry defended his remarks to PennLive, saying that the broader point he was making was that all employees, whether public or private sector, ought to have a savings to rely on in emergencies like a government shutdown.

The whole reason there is a shutdown is because the Republican Congress ran out of other people's money and is demanding more money to borrow that they can spend.

Someone needs to ***** slap this ******* retarded ************.

Hard.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is correct that members of Congress should forfeit pay for every day the government is shut down

 

[edward37]

The impending shutdown could mean that thousands of workers at federal agencies including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security, Interior, State, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development — would either be furloughed or work without pay.

An avowed supporter of President Donald J. Trump’s border wall, Perry has been cheering on the president in outlets like Breitbart. Perry has aruged that those who are in favor of more secure borders should stand strong in their demands for $5.7 billion to fund the wall in this latest temporary spending bill.

Many wall supporters see this as their last best chance to push the issue before Democrats take majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January.

The House voted to include the wall funding in the bill on Thursday, sending the issue back to the Senate today with a midnight deadline for agreement looming.

Other members of the House’s Freedom Caucus, of which Perry is a part, had voiced similar sentiments to Perry’s remarks through the day, but typically in more finely-filtered terms.

“It’s actually part of what you do when you sign up for any public service position,” Rep. Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican and the caucus’s chairman, told reporters on Thursday. “It’s not lost on me in terms of the potential hardship.”

 

[WillowTree]

Just fund the wall, that’s all.

 

[edward37]

Just fund the wall, that’s all.

Trumpettes should start putting their money where their mouths are

 

[WillowTree]

Just fund the wall, that’s all.

Trumpettes should start putting their money where their mouths are

Oh they are!

 

[edward37]

Just fund the wall, that’s all.

Trumpettes should start putting their money where their mouths are

Oh they are!

LOL guess there's always a first time Another 5 days of the 1000 point dow I might even pitch in

 

[Oddball]

If you're a federal bureaucrat, with all the well-above-private-sector pay and bennies you get, and don't have savings or at least good enough credit to tide you over in situations like this, tough shit.

Perry defended his remarks to PennLive, saying that the broader point he was making was that all employees, whether public or private sector, ought to have a savings to rely on in emergencies like a government shutdown.

“It’s actually part of what you do when you sign up for any public service position,” said Congressman Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina), chair of the House Freedom Caucus, of which Perry is a member.

Meadows and Perry make $174,000 a year as members of Congress. Meanwhile, a CareerBuilder survey found that 78 percent of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. 40 percent of Americans can’t afford food and shelter.


And while 44 percent of Americans cannot cope with a $400 emergency, nearly two-thirds of Americans cannot handle a $1000 emergency with their savings.

Relatively new Customs and Border Protection agents, who are arguably the federal employees who stand to engage with if not benefit from the border wall, make $45,000 a year, but will work without pay during the shutdown. Assuming biweekly pay, that means that before taxes, the paycheck they’ll miss is $1,700.

Well over what most Americans can afford. And that’s only one paycheck. The shutdown of 1995-1996 lasted almost a month. Trump has indicated that this shutdown will be a long one.

Perry only narrowly won re-election, but is already making the case to his constituents that he doesn’t understand their financial situation.

If you're a well-paid federal bureaucrat, who produces absolutely nothing of added value for the economy at large, I got something for ya.....

 

[Oddball]

If you're a federal bureaucrat, with all the well-above-private-sector pay and bennies you get, and don't have savings or at least good enough credit to tide you over in situations like this, tough shit.

Look, maybe a fed secretary gets more than a private secretary, but many feds are in professional fields and get paid a lot less than private counterparts.

Bullshit.

 

[Timmy]

If you're a federal bureaucrat, with all the well-above-private-sector pay and bennies you get, and don't have savings or at least good enough credit to tide you over in situations like this, tough shit.

Look, maybe a fed secretary gets more than a private secretary, but many feds are in professional fields and get paid a lot less than private counterparts.

Bullshit.

What do you think ? Fed lawyers make more than the private counterparts? VA doctors n nurses make more than private ?

 

[edward37]

If you're a federal bureaucrat, with all the well-above-private-sector pay and bennies you get, and don't have savings or at least good enough credit to tide you over in situations like this, tough shit.

Perry defended his remarks to PennLive, saying that the broader point he was making was that all employees, whether public or private sector, ought to have a savings to rely on in emergencies like a government shutdown.

“It’s actually part of what you do when you sign up for any public service position,” said Congressman Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina), chair of the House Freedom Caucus, of which Perry is a member.

Meadows and Perry make $174,000 a year as members of Congress. Meanwhile, a CareerBuilder survey found that 78 percent of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. 40 percent of Americans can’t afford food and shelter.


And while 44 percent of Americans cannot cope with a $400 emergency, nearly two-thirds of Americans cannot handle a $1000 emergency with their savings.

Relatively new Customs and Border Protection agents, who are arguably the federal employees who stand to engage with if not benefit from the border wall, make $45,000 a year, but will work without pay during the shutdown. Assuming biweekly pay, that means that before taxes, the paycheck they’ll miss is $1,700.

Well over what most Americans can afford. And that’s only one paycheck. The shutdown of 1995-1996 lasted almost a month. Trump has indicated that this shutdown will be a long one.

Perry only narrowly won re-election, but is already making the case to his constituents that he doesn’t understand their financial situation.

If you're a well-paid federal bureaucrat, who produces absolutely nothing of added value for the economy at large, I got something for ya.....

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And what does your republican congress contribute for all the extras they get ,,,including legal inside trading