Reminds of that movie I didn't see, "The Purge: One night a year, all crime is legal." Government is shut down, lets go riot and plunder! Or just do what you normally would.
I wonder how this would affect other countries. Britain for instance wouldn't really care, there would be large amounts of grumbling but then we'd bring back the baronial system and carry on. It will be interesting to see the "public" opinion of this if it goes on.
Reminds of that movie I didn't see, "The Purge: One night a year, all crime is legal." Government is shut down, lets go riot and plunder! Or just do what you normally would.
I saw it a while back. I liked the premise more than the film itself. The actual story is mostly just a home intruder movie. I would have liked to see more about their corrupt government and conspiracies about what the purge is really about, but hopefully the sequel will do that.
I did see something on tumblr of a bunch of tweets saying "OMG its just like the purge, lets go riot!" Hopefully they were joking and realize that it means that the Government is just getting even less shit done rather than there not being one at all.
Crosspost from the TotD thread, but here's a helpful status page detailing which departments are operational, as well as current news updates as the shutdown progresses.
It's become clear that the House GOP's plan is to stall until the debt ceiling comes up in a few weeks. Their whole plan rests on the assumption that Dems and Obama will cave in the end. I guess we'll see.
My gubment job not affected unless this runs through Nov 30th, although many co-workers are out. I have, however, shifted my retirement funds to the lowest-possible risk options as of this morning. I usually don't ever fiddle with them, and the markets seemed to have priced in some of this drama in anticipation, but there's no way this shit is going to end well, especially with debt ceiling (a hilarious imaginary crisis) coming up.
Question: Who decides what is and isn't "essential"? I asked my AP Gov teacher, and she said the President, but that doesn't make sense. Anyone have a good answer?
Also health coverage; depending on how long this goes, we might not be covered.
Where are you getting this information? I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
Question: Who decides what is and isn't "essential"? I asked my AP Gov teacher, and she said the President, but that doesn't make sense. Anyone have a good answer?
We were told CBO. I'll ask again when I get to work.
Also health coverage; depending on how long this goes, we might not be covered.
Where are you getting this information? I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
It's something I didn't think about until someone I work with brought it up; we both work for the government in a "necessary" position. Mutual commiserating over the situation led to a bunch of random thoughts and questions about how it's going to screw us over, and this was one he thought of. Granted, I don't think so, but it's something I want to make sure I do know when I go back in on Friday.
@Banta, that's what I thought. I know that there is funding for the open enrollment and pretty sure there will be for coverage under ACA in 2014.
So... What is the viewpoint among 'essential' employees regarding 'non-essential' employees getting paid for time off on their return?
Ok. First off, no one knows if 'non-essential'/furloughed employees are even going to get reimbursed for not working since Tuesday. That's what Congress decides. Back during the 1995-1996 shut down, Congress eventually did authorize back pay for those who were affected.
So until Congress does something, shit is up in the air. In all honesty, it's all up in the air on if they will follow suit. I know a few people at my job that are affected. It sucks, but it's a small minority.
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I did see something on tumblr of a bunch of tweets saying "OMG its just like the purge, lets go riot!" Hopefully they were joking and realize that it means that the Government is just getting even less shit done rather than there not being one at all.
Well, damn.
The one I was most concerned about.
God bless 'Murrika.
Let me go grab my eye patch and skull and crossbones.
The way to deal with this is the same way you deal with a 3 year old doing the same thing.
I think the websites being down is like a temper tantrum. I don't expect anyone to respond on the websites but static content should still be up.
So until Congress does something, shit is up in the air. In all honesty, it's all up in the air on if they will follow suit. I know a few people at my job that are affected. It sucks, but it's a small minority.