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Luckyellow posted:Why don't they just simply order the military to take over all the jobs? Jarhead who spent his entire signing bonus on a new mustang, while putting on a pair of horn-rim glasses: "No, you can't claim this amount of mortgage interest on the 1040A. You need a form 1098."
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underage at the vape shop posted:Just get a new job you idiots. You dumbasses. You total dickheads. Just do it. Just get rehired. You loving assholes. https://youtu.be/23Te7QAsH6w This but with American government workers. 935 posted:Have you tried asking your landlor if you can do maintenance in leu of paying rent? Sad lol that this actual no-poo poo government policy now: https://twitter.com/USOPM/status/1078309890832166912?s=20 https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-46844603 quote:Meanwhile, the classified advertising website Craigslist has been flooded with listings from federal workers trying to sell their possessions. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1084509636756234245?s=20 Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jan 17, 2019 |
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:https://youtu.be/23Te7QAsH6w 
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"selling my kid's toys to pay the bills" makes me so incredibly sad
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Jan 17, 2019 05:42
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Who wants to start doing H with me under an overpass?
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CassandraZara posted:"selling my kid's toys to pay the bills" makes me so incredibly sad This is what winning too much feels like folks.
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Jan 17, 2019 05:45
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Blackchamber posted:if I were to try and save 30% of what was left (as recommended by some online calculator for this sort of thing) it'd take me a year and a half to save up a 6 month emergency fund. That sounds entirely reasonable tbh.
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dads friend steve posted:Extremely cool that it is illegal to quit your now-unpaid job, but it’s not illegal to evict or foreclose on govt slaves Do Americans not realize that they're basically slaves to their job and have minimal work protections, if any?
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Do Americans not realize that they're basically slaves to their job and have minimal work protections, if any? We do but a majority of the country has been brainwashed to always vote for the dude with an R next to their name even while he's trying to piss in your mouth with one hand while signing anti-labor legislation with the other
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Reign Of Pain posted:https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/14/denver-mortgage-aid-federal-workers-shutdown/ Reign Of Pain posted:Free bus and rail for federal workers in Austin Weird how the city governments are stepping up to provide government assistance for things like mortgages and mass transit to make it possible to work and survive so people don't go destitute since the federal government is broken. Maybe socialism is actually... good??? 
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:there was a court case just this week that asked exactly this. the judge ruled that while he sympathized with the unpaid feds it shouldn't be up to the judiciary to resolve a 'budget dispute' and that sending all the federal employees home would result in chaos, somehow completely unlike the chaos currently happening in the lives of said federal employees Government peasants don't matter, Congresspeople do. Better git gud, government scrubs.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:That sounds entirely reasonable tbh. The point was that when half your pay already goes to rent it's hard to put aside 30% and still cover all the other things you still need like groceries, utilities, car payments and insurance, and so on so it's more likely going to take much longer to save an emergency fund.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Weird how the city governments are stepping up to provide government assistance for things like mortgages and mass transit to make it possible to work and survive so people don't go destitute since the federal government is broken. It is when you can get FREE BEER!!!! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pay-it-furloughed-offers-a-way-to-buy-a-beer-for-federal-workers-hit-by-shutdown/ quote:About 800,000 federal workers haven't seen a paycheck since December 22, and one organization is hoping to relieve some of their stress by collecting donations. Donations of free beer, that is. I went to my regular here in Austin and no one bought me jack poo poo  They just said "yeah that sucks" when I tell them I'm working for free  Oh, and Cardi B seems to be on our side as she just put out a rant video thats got mil+ views already...so I guess thats a thing https://www.instagram.com/p/BstmkvDFGAm/
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Blackchamber posted:The point was that when half your pay already goes to rent it's hard to put aside 30% and still cover all the other things you still need like groceries, utilities, car payments and insurance, and so on so it's more likely going to take much longer to save an emergency fund. You said 30% of remaining, saving 15% of your net isn't unthinkable. Also most low income people pay half their income for rent if single, it indeed does suck but that part isn't abnormal.
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Reign Of Pain posted:It is when you can get FREE BEER!!!! Ah yes $45 six packs. The bars definitely aren't using this to make more money.
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Jan 17, 2019 18:56
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Just drop a pallet of PBR in front of an important government building in the middle of the day and enjoy the show!
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It's been like a month of 24/7 service at the DC bars. How drunk and hungover is everybody there?
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Arrhythmia posted:I hope the shutdown never ends and the states realize that there's no one in charge and America accidentally balkanizes. divide north and south imo
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I’d rather have Judge Dredd. Mega Cities (and Texas City) vs. Cursed Earth makes more sense.
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Arrhythmia posted:I hope the shutdown never ends and the states realize that there's no one in charge and America accidentally balkanizes. Yugoslav Wars: American Edition
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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1085959959895031809?s=20 What the gently caress, they won't even let fed workers ask for charity on pain of imprisonment? What is wrong with America? 
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:What the gently caress, they won't even let fed workers ask for charity? What is wrong with America? the article itself (which I got from an aggregator offsite because gently caress giving a headline like that views) said exactly this: quote:'They're in such a tough position' basically every modern government has so many laws that you are probably technically violating one pretty much every day. the question is whether or not anyone cares. nobody gives a gently caress about whether or not some hack journalist thinks he found a technical gotcha in a law that has nothing to do with the situation it's being applied to. e: the law the article's referring to is one that prevents government workers from accepting gifts from people outside the government (as an anticorruption measure). if someone tried to take this to court the defense would be "they were furloughed and not working for the government at the time and are therefore not subject to this law." it's a trivial case to make. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Jan 17, 2019 |
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Jan 17, 2019 20:03
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Hey, if you get prisoners to do all the government work, we can get away with paying them cents per hour! This is a great way to reduce our government spending and help reintegrate/enslave our massive prison population.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:You said 30% of remaining, saving 15% of your net isn't unthinkable. Keep in mind percentages don't scale linearly when it comes to living expenses. 15% of your net isn't unthinkable for someone making $100,000. For someone making <$30,000, it is.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Hey, if you get prisoners to do all the government work, we can get away with paying them cents per hour! This is a great way to reduce our government spending and help reintegrate/enslave our massive prison population. excuse me? those slaves are already busy working for pennys per hour for the FREE MARKET. what do you think this is communist Russia?
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Colonel Cancer posted:If Trump manages to kill the whole TSA security theater by accident... Good. "Abolish the TSA" is a bullet point in the Texas GOP platform. QuarkJets posted:We do but a majority of the country has been brainwashed to always vote for the dude with an R next to their name even while he's trying to piss in your mouth with one hand while signing anti-labor legislation with the other Actually the largest group (often a majority) has been browbeaten into apathy and just stick their heads in the sand and hope that politics doesn't affect them too much. Like, Cruz won because voter turnout was only 46%. Cyberpunkey Monkey fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jan 17, 2019 |
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Cyberpunkey Monkey posted:
When you can convince people to vote against their own self interests then evil has triumphed.
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People aren't voting en masse against their own self interest, though. They just aren't voting at all.
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Or, they vote but an archaic system of government+insidious capitalism means that voter preferences are explicitly subverted.
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the problem is i cant vote with text messages
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bring back old gbs posted:the problem is i cant vote with text messages you see uh...i didn't have an hour to vote i had to...go shopping
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maker posted:you see uh...i didn't have an hour to vote i had to...go shopping
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I wish pricks weren't destroying our national parks just because there's no adult supervision
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Cyberpunkey Monkey posted:"Abolish the TSA" is a bullet point in the Texas GOP platform They just want to privatize which would be much worse
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It's really funny how individuals are forced to save individually for retirement. To take advantage of the best tax benefits for savings that money is essentially locked away until retirement age. This means, to most effectively save for retirement, workers should be working paycheck to paycheck, but when they lose their jobs or dont get paid, they get slagged off for not saving more.
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I have no illusions about retirement and am fully planning on just buying a decent rifle when I'm in my 40s/50s or so
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Hunting people for meat seems more ethical than hunting them for sport, so kudos.
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El_Elegante posted:Hunting people for meat seems more ethical than hunting them for sport, so kudos. Under occupation fills in "other" circle, types in "MILF HUNTER"
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Oscar Wild posted:but when they lose their jobs or dont get paid, they get slagged off for not saving more. hey man, whatever it takes for us to feel superior now if you excuse me I’ve got some pedestrians to intimidate *revs up and blows a bunch of diesel smoke at you*
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Cannon_Fodder posted:I wish pricks weren't destroying our national parks just because there's no adult supervision Same, but the entirety of the planet.
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