Congress imposed a government shutdown? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning? Fuck you, pay me.
( All posts will start with this until the shutdown is over).
So the clock is ticking upward-and the place I work could not get its act together. SECDEF gave some guidance on who would and would not be exempted. Personnel supporting certain operations-such as one I work on were supposed to be exempted.
So why was I at home this afternoon? Pay or no pay-I should have been at work-per the SECDEF guidance. The discussions got heated this morning as the leadership slithered out of that stance in order to get all civilians to go home. The pessismist in me thinks this is some person trying to "save money". How?
Sigh. Sometimes we affix blame too far from home. DOD is its own worst enemy at times.
And what is this all about?
Kevin Drum explains:
The Republican Party is bending its entire will, staking its very soul, fighting to its last breath, in service of a crusade to….
Make sure that the working poor don't have access to affordable health care. I just thought I'd mention that in plain language, since it seems to get lost in the fog fairly often. But that's it. That's what's happening. They have been driven mad by the thought that rich people will see their taxes go up slightly in order to help non-rich people get decent access to medical care.
That's a pretty stirring animating principle, no?
Fuck you, pay me.