Another Gooberment shutdown...?!

[Vile Shadow]

OMG!! It's the end of the world!! The federal Gooberment may be shut down!!

For all the hoo-hah surrounding shutdowns of the federal Gooberment, which by the way happens every friday at 5:00, they're damn sure quicker than hell to do it in a snowstorm. Damned if Pax River wasn't all but deserted today.

 

[SRD]

Essential employees?

If they're not essential on snow days then what do they do on sunny days?

 

[iH8DemLibz]

What Snow?

 

[SRD]

What Snow?

Exactly.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

southern MD got snow. Everyone else didn't.

 

[helmetmike]

southern MD got snow. Everyone else didn't.

Not too loud, someone may try to tax it.

 

[Vile Shadow]

Essential employees?

If they're not essential on snow days then what do they do on sunny days?

There were a bunch of guys in loaders on the runways sharpening their cutting edges on the pavement.

 

[eddiek2000]

Not really a fair statement IMHO. Pax RARELY closes for snow vs the DC area. I'm on TDY and not home, so I haven't seen it for myself. But usually I am home and my wife is risking her life to get to work at PAX.

 

[Mike96ZJ]

Try explaining that the base is closed when your HQ is in Baltimore and they have no snow at all. Usually it's the exact opposite and I am at work on the "liberal leave" days and doing nothing but watching netflix since no one else is working. But hey at least I don't have to burn a day of leave.

For the record i took a leave day yesterday and sat at home with my son all day. Totally worth it.

 

[RoboRay]

Try explaining that the base is closed when your HQ is in Baltimore and they have no snow at all.

If they balk, insist they justify to you why the HQ is closed when there's no snow where you are.

 

[Mooseman]

Shut it down, at least Congress.

 

[Mike96ZJ]

Shut it down, at least Congress.

They hope for that. They still get paid no matter what. They passed a law that said there is no reason that their pay can be withheld.

 

[AC MkIII]

They hope for that. They still get paid no matter what. They passed a law that said there is no reason that their pay can be withheld.

Can we get a reboot to 1787?

September 14, 1789
Congressional Pay
View of S-1's Spine
What would be a fair salary for a member of the Senate? The framers of the U.S. Constitution, in their wisdom, dodged that potentially explosive question. Some believed, however, that because senators would probably come from the well-to-do classes, they should receive no salary at all.
Under the Articles of Confederation—the constitution in effect during the framers’ 1787 deliberations—members of the existing Congress received varying salaries from their individual states. If a state legislature became dissatisfied with one of its representatives in the Continental Congress, it could simply suspend his salary.
Seeking to narrow state powers over the central government, the Constitution’s authors provided that congressional salaries would come from the federal treasury, with Congress setting the actual amount.
As one of its first orders of business, the House of Representatives formed a committee to draft congressional pay legislation. The panel recommended six dollars for each day a member attended a session. But Representative James Madison, the Constitution’s principal architect, irritated his fellow House members by proposing that senators be paid more than representatives because they presumably had greater responsibilities under the Constitution. The House ignored Madison and accepted the six-dollar rate for both chambers.
When the clerk of the House carried the pay bill to the Senate chamber, senators were preoccupied with major legislation establishing cabinet departments, locating the permanent seat of government, and creating the Bill of Rights. Nevertheless they found time for a heated debate on salaries. Pennsylvania’s Robert Morris moved that senators receive two dollars more than House members so that they would not have to live in substandard boarding houses and associate with “improper company.”
On September 14, 1789, in the face of solid House opposition, the Senate agreed to a curious face-saving arrangement. Senators would receive one dollar more than House members, but not for another six years—and the higher rate would remain in effect for one year only.
Six years later, senators did receive the extra dollar, but just for a two-week special session in which only the Senate was convened to consider a treaty.
For the next 187 years, members of both houses received the same rate of pay. Then, in 1983, perhaps as a long-deferred reward for the House’s earlier patience, its members received a higher salary than senators—but only for a few months. Call it even.
Reference Items:
U.S. Congress. Senate. The Senate, 1789-1989, Vol. 2, by Robert C. Byrd. 100th Cong., 1st sess., 1991. S. Doc.100-20.

 

[rob-cubed]

Who wouldn't want to be able to vote for their own pay raises and job security? One of the only things that unites both sides of the isle is making their respective positions more comfortable.

Congress feels a lot like a spoiled union these days.

 

[redeemed.man]

Shut it down, at least Congress.

Shut down the White House. Sh1t might actually get done without illegal Executive Orders.

 

[SoMD_Gen4]

Essential employees?

If they're not essential on snow days then what do they do on sunny days?

They support people like your son, the warfighter....YOUR WELCOME

 

[somd_mustangs]

They <we> support people like your son, the warfighter....YOU'RE WELCOME

 

[SRD]

Essential employees?

If they're not essential on snow days then what do they do on sunny days?

They support people like your son, the warfighter....YOUR WELCOME

Are you saying the military only gets support on sunny days or that you missed the sarcasm in my post? (which I'll admit I forgot to click the smiley)

 

[somd_mustangs]

The sarcasm was missing
There's so much bashing of gov't employees on here this came across as same-same.

 

[SRD]

The sarcasm was missing
There's so much bashing of gov't employees on here this came across as same-same.

No one will ever see me "bash" the US Military or civilian companies/corporations that sub-contract for them.