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Politicians, government, and many government employees are petulant children that will take their ball home the instant they feel they're not getting their way.
by pstack 13y ago
Politicians, government, and many government employees are petulant children that will take their ball home the instant they feel they're not getting their way.
- saraid216 13y agoBut when Wikipedia goes dark to protest SOPA, that's advocacy!
- the_watcher 13y agoWikipedia is not a government organization.
- daeken 13y agoWikipedia was always up, period. In addition, there are mirrors of the data all over the place.
- tzs 13y agoI'm curious. When your funding goes away and your employer stops paying you, how long do you need to keep working for free to avoid being considered a petulant child?
- ihsw 13y agoWhen your boss is happy to pay for his useless secretary that he's banging, but he's not happy about paying for actual work to be done until he can continue squirrelling money away for his personal pet projects. When your boss is happy to stop paying for expenses and we're forced to put it all on credit, thereby racking up 20% monthly interest. When your boss is happy to allocate resources for his personal pet projects, but more meaningful contributions to the company are "temporarily" cut due to budget concerns.
- tptacek 13y agoSo that's a timespan denominated in negative seconds, right?
- revelation 13y agoThis isn't funding going away, nothing and noone being paid. It's more like the unlimited credit card was cancelled.
- tptacek 13y agoDo you know anyone who works for the federal government? I do; I have cousins who work at EPA. They got their hours cut because of the sequester; they weren't paid full weeks. Obviously, some people are still getting paid. But your "unlimited credit card" observation is inaccurate.
- eli 13y agoYou are just plain wrong. If congress doesn't pass a budget, there's no money and most nonessential employees don't get paid.
- eli 13y agoIt is illegal to keep working for the federal government for free. In a shutdown, most non-essential workers will be on unpaid vacation.
- ars 13y ago> how long do you need to keep working for free to avoid being considered a petulant child? Um, they have to pay extra to shut down the website. Just leave the website up. Petulant is right, they are putting up the message to complain about things, not to save money.
- eli 13y agoWhat did government employees do to deserve a shutdown? This is absolutely a failure of the politicians in the House of Representatives. The Tea Party wing of the Republican party will not pass a clean bill to allow the government to continue to function unless Obamacare is "defunded" which is both fairly ridiculous and not actually possible.