Thread on Government Shutdown: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS OFFICIALLY REOPENED!
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Looks like this is going to last all month
Hopefully longer...
I dont see nay other way to wake the people and get them active.
Urbanmiracle
Brooklyn the planet...
To my fellow federal employees:
A memo just came out that we going to get a check that covers until Sept 30th which was the end of the fiscal year of 2013. So basically that means we getting one weeks pay. The other week will come when they finish this political pissing match over the 2014 fiscal year budget. We should get the check the week of Oct 14th
A memo just came out that we going to get a check that covers until Sept 30th which was the end of the fiscal year of 2013. So basically that means we getting one weeks pay. The other week will come when they finish this political pissing match over the 2014 fiscal year budget. We should get the check the week of Oct 14th
Urbanmiracle
Brooklyn the planet...
With all due respect
Eat a dikk. They are federal employees with families to feed. I don't care about your political ideology. The point is people are starving without pay. The longer this last the more the bills pile up and more hungry people kids will be. This won't wake anyone up. It only affects a small few. Now if they don't raise the debt ceiling then maybe someone will get angry. But these idiots are distracted by GTA V
Understandable.
I still like the potential long term implications of this shut down. Nothing gets a man motivated and active like hunger.
How is this affecting you as a contractor? I'm a govt contractor and we are still working and getting paid.
-DMP-
Understandable.
I still like the potential long term implications of this shut down. Nothing gets a man motivated and active like hunger.
So libertarians are cool with employed people staying home and having to wait this shyt out and not getting paid?
You want smaller government? Cool, but don't act like this is some okay way to go about it. What about all of those small business owners in DC who aren't getting any business because of this?
Anyways here's your chance fellas, I forgot who called it but looks like the ladies are open for business.
http://tpr.org/post/us-shutdown-may-be-driving-traffic-sugar-daddy-sites
sugar daddy (noun): a well-to-do usually older man who supports or spends lavishly on a mistress, girlfriend, or boyfriend
The government shutdown may have become a boon for one kind of online dating site — those that help users find sugar daddies.
SeekingArrangment.com, which bills itself as "the world's largest sugar daddy dating website," says it has seen a 50 percent jump in average daily sign-ups since last Sunday, just before congressional intransigence forced the federal government to stop fully functioning. WhatsYourPrice.com, which lets people bid for first dates, reports a similar increase — the average number of daily signups went from 500 to 900 since Sunday.
SeekingArrangement works like other dating sites, providing a platform for people to meet. For a fee, it provides background checks and verification of its users. But as a niche dating community, people go to SeekingArrangement for a certain kind of match — someone to help pay the bills.
"They come here to create mutually beneficial arrangements," says Jennifer Gwynn, the public relations manager for the site, which has been up and running since 2006 and boasts 2 million members. "Usually there is a financial allowance attached to [the pairings], around $3,000 a month," she says.
That's alluring for many college students and single mothers, which are the two (not mutually exclusive) groups among SeekingArrangement's female members.
There is no way to know for sure whether the shutdown and the reported spike in sign-ups is related. But this is the site's reasoning:
"We usually have a lull in September and October," Gwynn says. "For us to peak at the end of the month in September, and this week in general, it makes no sense for us to have a growth like this. Half of the new members are single moms, so we're thinking that it's tied directly to the government shutdown, since programs like WIC (the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children), that help more than 9 million moms, have been stalled. It would make no sense for growth otherwise."
WhatsYourPrice.com, where users can earn $80 on average for going out on a date with their winning bidders, says its registration growth isn't as big as the sugar daddy site, but that this week has "stood out because this is usually a slow time," says WhatsYourPrice's Angela Jacob Bermudo.
SeekingArrangement points to another piece of information from its data: It's a global site, but this week's membership spike is coming only from the U.S. And in the past, its membership growth has come during difficult economic times.
"Since the recession the site has experienced tremendous growth, tripling its membership base to over 2 million members since 2008," Gwynn says.
I haven't gotten a memo. I usually get paid every other thursday (Oct. 17th). The senate hasn't approved the back pay yet. Obama already said he'll sign it though.
Government employees*
Its not about any of that, its about the "big picture" those who receive government funds, but dont vote or give a shyt are giving a shyt now, and i think thats a good thing.
An involved citizenry is good for everyone IMHO, and worth the pains...
Thats the crazy part, its more of a paid vacation than anything else for most "shutdown" employees.
Urbanmiracle
Brooklyn the planet...
This isn't the retro pay. This is your regular pay. Half of your pay cycle was approved with the FY13 budget. The other half hasn't been appropriated yet with the FY14 budget which they are currently fighting over
We aren't getting any pay until the shutdown is over. It's not the time to go on vacation, it's a time to hunker down.
Yea that's right. I read your post wrong.