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217 sats \ 5 replies \ @freetx 20 Dec \ on: The Vital Group Members And The Public Forget About In A Government Shutdown Politics_And_Law
I think everyone here agrees that staffers like yourself are getting screwed and we know that its not a cushy job.
However, there needs to be consequences, not to you but to congress as a whole. The budgets and spending bill was supposed to be done long before now. But they continued playing the brinkmanship game they have played for last 20 years: Delay until its a time-crises and then try to ram thru a 1500 page bill spending trillions of dollars.
There is no reason these couldn't have split out into separate bills and critical funding could've been secured easily (but maybe the pork wouldn't have been -- and that was their real goal).
Honestly I'm happy there are people like you up there who are also a member of this board.
Yeah for the most part I agree people on here understand the gist of the situation others... not so much I mean the government shutting down impacts everyone except the Members. To that point yeah if the government shuts down due to the 27th amendment the Members themselves continue to get paid. Personally, I think it demoralizes a lot of the staffers and its why its so funny to me when Members act like they lose in the shutdown when their check still hits.
Besides the fact they shouldn't be paid, they shouldn't be allowed to leave DC like they have done before. Hell I think they should be put in a tiny room all of them together and forced to hash it out and compromise. No lunch breaks no bathroom breaks everyone in a room and a compromise would come flying out pretty freaking quickly. They would also have to vote on it in this room so they cant come to an agreement be let out then tank it.... I know they would def do that...
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I would like to note for the record that @Bell_curve definitely disagrees and thinks Congressional staff deserve to get screwed and he's made it clear as day that not a single thing could ever go wrong in a shutdown and its a healthy move.
Gotta be nice not having your paycheck get yeeted 😂
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Sentiment cannot be the basis of fiscal policy
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