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The government has evaded the prohibition by redefining "involuntary servitude" as in military conscription accepted as constitutional.
But government workers are not forced to work without pay even in the partial shut-down. They can resign at any time.
As to government workers- if you don’t work you don’t get paid, period. Time for government workers who don’t like it should quit. Getting free vacations with pay is not something I want to pay for. I usually don’t wish people to die, but I can make an exception for Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, chuck schumer, and Diane Feinstein.
Perhaps you could address what I mentioned, instead of telling us what we already know.
Oh, I remember,....it's to force a sense of urgency and deprivation by our "mean ole President." No blame at all on the Demon-rats.
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2...
Why does a victim of robbery under threat of deadly force care if those making the threats are paid for the "work" of theft?
Played right into the Dems hands. Sooner or later somebody has to blink.
I haven't read all comments, but most of those "essential" employees really aren't essential at all to valid State functions. My heart does not bleed for them.
Plus, the foolproof Pelosi contraindicator tells me if she's "fighting" for them, they're not worth it. There is no there, there.
The only at least partial "slaves" at the mercy of the State are the taxpayers.
Plus, Pelosi is not fighting for the employees of the state. She is fighting to keep the border open at the behest of her donors, who I imagine will take advantage of the illegals for the cheap labor. Once they are in the country, they will be granted the right to vote and the dims have a new voter base. Viola! dim power for a very long time.
We, the true slaves, the taxpayer will pay for it all. Until we stop producing. Won't take long.
Me dino heard on the news they will be fully compensated after the shutdown ends.
Though this is a hardship that will probably run up many a credit card, these government workers will be paid.
Every job I've ever had~and that's quite a few~I've always been paid on a bi-weekly basis AFTER I've done the work.
As long as these federal employees are paid for ALL the work they did at the stated end of the government shutdown, I can't see how that is a federal crime.
A big time federal inconvenience, yes. A federal crime? No.
Reminds me of what I heard on Parris Island about the civilian way and the Marine Corps way.
The pension I now enjoy retired is the only reason I stayed with the Alabama Department Of Corrections for 21 years while toward the end mandatory overtime increased more and more by the year.
Working with officers worn down from lack of sleep is not a safe work environment bossing convicted felons.
It would have been 25 years but I learned you how to buy years from the retirement board. It had something to do with covering for taxes, which I still don't really understand.
I inherited some money and bought 4 years for just under $5,000. Me dino was glad to get away from that prison.
Trouble is, I had to wait four years for the pension to kick in.
So I became a security guard based on my corrections experience, Fully retired now at the age of 72.
I was someone known for cracking jokes in the belly of that beast. Maybe that's conducive to beating the 59-year-old curse. .
I, too, worked for a state entity and my sense of humor allowed me to last as long as I did.
Until I bought myself out of the system due to military service and other factors. It was costly, in my opinion, but worth it.
Still working at 77, at civilian job, just to keep me from rotting away. Luv it.
And I'm always reading a book about something.
And I watch at least two Netflix DVDs a week. .
A book that you would find interesting and useful is Ayn Rand's The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fiction-Gu... It is an edited version of informal lectures she gave in her apartment to a group of friends and acquaintances. There is a parallel book on non-fiction, with some overlap in the content. Both are very good.
What they are being told is if they wish to remain in their current job they will have to do it for deferred pay.
It seems like they should be liable to pay for all work done before the shutdown announced, if the employer is not bankrupt. The US gov't may be bankrupt one day if we keep on this path, but it's not bankrupt today.
Also, if you are a government worker and you aren't aware of the potential for your job to be laid off or shutdown at the whim of an elected official, you really should. I don't give them a pass on the sob story train. Unless it's Amtrak - then they deserve what they get.
I think the sob story is true in so far as if you live paycheck-to-paycheck, your life will be a series of financial crises. I have no disrespect for people who live paycheck-to-paycheck, but it would be wise for them to get out of that. Otherwise life will be a series of bona fide sob stories. If it's not their employer missing payroll it will be something else.