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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Considering I was working for a contractor and didn't get any back pay at all, pardon my lack of sympathy about having to wait a bit longer for a check. You're talking about people with incredibly stable, decently paying jobs. No one is getting rich working for the government, but if a federal employee is going to be wiped out by having to wait a few extra weeks for a paycheck, they should seriously reconsider their life decisions. And that was exactly my experience with all of the federal folks I talked to during and after the shutdown - they fell into one of two camps, (a) excited about the bonus vacation they assumed they would be paid for and disappointed to be back at work when it was over or (b) upset that they were barred from doing work they considered meaningful and important. "If you don't have tons of money saved up you're an idiot" is a pretty ignorant thing to say fyi
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:A lot of the responses to my post seem to ignore that we are talking about federal employees, not folks generally. They will not have extreme out of pocket healthcare costs because they have generally excellent health insurance, as well as life and ST disability insurance. The pay, while somewhat lower than most private industry comparable positions, is still consistent with meeting the needs of a middle class lifestyle even with a family. There are adjustments to the pay depending on cost of living in the area. They cannot be summarily fired without due process. Their salary increases over time based on tenure and performance. There are generous vacation and sick pay allowances. Overtime is appropriately measured and paid out. You're still going on about this? Sorry you hate federal workers but your argument is dumb. There are a zillion reasons a federal worker doesn't have some big emergency fund stashed and you're a fool for even making this about them instead of the idiots shutting down the government in the first place.
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Sep 1, 2014 13:04
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So voter ID is literally deciding an election there HMM
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Sep 12, 2014 13:37
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MaxxBot posted:Yes if the bully continues to create a hostile learning environment for other students after punishing them multiple times then eventually you'd have no other choice. Do you think students should be allowed to create a hostile learning environment for other students indefinitely with nothing to stop them? googled the Anoka-Hennepin thing and some article noted complaints about the change in school policy and settlements in court quote:Laurie Thompson, spokeswoman for the Parents Action League, called the settlement a "travesty." Apparently one of the school board members resigned over them caving into the gay agenda or whatever as well. Somehow indoctrination involves an open environment free from hostility, but doesnt include making all your young students hate gays because jesus says so??
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Sep 12, 2014 18:04
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Welp, it's ok that I beat this adolescent child as a grown rear end adult because ~it was my last resort~
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Sep 13, 2014 01:46
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Sometimes I get so fed up with a person I want to hit them, but only if it's a child and not an adult do a large percentage of americans think that is an acceptable course of action.
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Sep 13, 2014 13:38
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quote:He[Bush] also told the First Lady, "If I'm in the WH and there's a plane coming my way, all I can say is I hope I read my Bible that day." Seems like a weird thing to say as someone commanding the nation's military forces. quote:We landed at Andrews Air Force Base & as Marine One flew back 2the White House, Bush looked out his window and saw the smoldering pentagon. Uh...21st century war would be the entire city is a pile of rubble from missiles.
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Sep 13, 2014 16:57
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Tiler Kiwi posted:That or he was talking about terrorist attacks, following a terrorist attack It's obvious he was talking about the magnitude of a building as powerful as the pentagon being in flames, not "terrorists are hitting things guys". Terrorist bombings have occurred throughout the 20th century.
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Sep 13, 2014 17:21
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Nintendo Kid posted:Sorry, that was the 20th century dude. Learn your history. Ah yes, the rampant use of nuclear arms in the 20th century in which two total strikes literally ended a war, not started it. Thanks for the useless sperg injection.
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Sep 13, 2014 17:35
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SedanChair posted:And where real cities on multiple continents were actually erased from bombing campaigns, unlike in the 21st so far. Then his proclamation of 21st century war and the sheer gravity of the situation hes facing makes even less sense, since it pales in comparison to "conventional" warfare. A single non-nuclear airstrike from the 1940's can provide the same devastation to the pentagon he sees from the DC sky. He was literally 1 year from the onset of the 21st century, and less than 2 years away from the same 20th century air strike campaigns you guys discuss post WW2. It's a bad parallel on his part to the Einstein "WW3/WW4 sticks and stones" story. If someone said "well boys this is 21st century policing" to show how police have gotten out of hand when it comes to student demonstrations after the occupy pepper spraying of students in california, it wouldn't make a lick of sense considering the Kent State massacre.
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Sep 13, 2014 18:35
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Berke Negri posted:Kent State weren't police. National Guard and police were taking the same role in those two situations, you get the point.
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Sep 13, 2014 18:44
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Is there nothing worthwhile to say about that man or is it just an elderly person's idea of profound advertising.
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Joementum posted:In the post-Citizens United scene it's becoming common for campaigns to release b-roll of their candidates so that outside groups can use the footage in advertising without coordinating with the campaign. Ah, the way the founders intended.
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Sep 15, 2014 00:53
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The younger DC Democrat crowd I know already scrubbed their poo poo years ago, despite being on the opening wave of facebook in 2003. Sure there will be plenty of train wrecks in the future but most the up and comers on the left are reasonably tech savvy, careful with their online posting, and also just not poo poo lords with disgusting opinions to tweet out slurs.
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Sep 18, 2014 03:37
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It's taxation that causes people to be poor, not the systemic inequalities perpetuated by inordinately wealthy people complaining about being taxed! alternatively: "how many of these 'poor' people are truly needy? that is the real question here!" -a wealthy white man's privileged son esto es malo fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Sep 23, 2014 14:13
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ReidRansom posted:I'll give him points for consistency. Does he truly need these points? I think this would be theft of points from more deserving folks.
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Yes it is, but perhaps anywhere remotely close to Germany is a poor choice of discussing the topic.
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