"While the Republican-led House postured by passing doomed legislation, many federal workers spent the weekend assessing the real-world effects of a shutdown. For the more than 800,000 employees deemed nonessential, the prospect included the loss of a regular paycheck and dipping into savings, missing mortgage payments or borrowing from relatives. More than 2million employees deemed essential would be told to report to work but would likely experience delays in getting paid... Contrast that with blithe comments from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), an instigator of the misguided effort to tie government operations to defunding the Affordable Care Act, when asked if he would forgo his pay in the event of a shutdown: “I will confess, it is a question I have not given a significant amount of thought. At the current time, I have no intention of doing so.” ...How rich is it that members of Congress — who have proved woefully inept at their job — would get paid but not the scientist at the National Institutes of Health working on cancer research; not the congressional staffer assisting constituents with problems; not the attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development cementing a deal to build housing for the low-income elderly; not the janitor sweeping out a restroom on the Mall?"
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:56:02 +0000
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