Official USMB Shutdown Showdown Thread --- Jan 10th, 2019

[Oddball]

Air traffic controllers union sues Trump administration over frozen pay during shutdown

• The union representing air traffic controllers sues President Trump over shutdown.
• Air traffic controllers have been deemed essential government workers and are showing up without pay.
• The government shutdown started Dec. 22 and is one of the longest in history.

The union representing the United States’ air traffic controllers is suing the Trump administration over pay that’s frozen as part of the partial government shutdown.

The Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic controllers are among the 420,000 federal employees who have been deemed essential and have been ordered to work without pay during the shutdown, which began on Dec. 22 due to an impasse over funding for a wall along the U.S. southern border.

Air traffic controllers union sues Trump administration over frozen pay during shutdown

So lemme get this straight....

The airlines can all make their money flying people around and the people flying can make their money by that flying around, but the people who ensure they get there alive and don't crash into each other have to work for nothing because they're "essential" to those airlines and those business travellers making their money. That about it?

Kinda like what this board calls "socialism" except that instead of everybody getting equal pay the essential people get no pay. What a great incentive to do a good job that is.

Privatize ATC....Hell, even Canada can do that.

 

[Oddball]

You know, one of the most stressful jobs a person can have in the United States is air traffic control. I remember that when I was in the Navy, they did a study to see which job in the Navy was the most stressful, and air traffic controller topped the list.

I can only imagine how much more the stress is now that they have to wait to get their paychecks until the government reopens.

You mean that you can have a high paying job like that, and not have savings and credit lines?

Whose fault is that?

 

[bripat9643]

This is what you’ll have for $6 billion...

Nope. We save billions that illegals cost us every year.

LOLOL

Dumbfuck, that picture is what trump’s wall looks like now. It took no time for someone to cut through it was an ordinary saw.

It’s not gonna save us a dime and Mexico isn’t gonna pay for it; we are.

Wrong. The article says the wall samples were "vulnerable to breaching." It doesn't say how it was done.

LOLOL

Fucking moron... ”Prototype of Trump’s Wall Proves No Match for Saw”

Do you ever say anything that isn’t fucking moronic?




Ever???

When Home Depot tools will defeat the billion dollar boondoggle...the WALL is the moronic thing

Home depot tools will defeat an armored car. Are you saying banks shouldn't use those anymore?

 

[JWBooth]

So lemme get this straight....

The airlines can all make their money flying people around and the people flying can make their money by that flying around, but the people who ensure they get there alive and don't crash into each other have to work for nothing because they're "essential" to those airlines and those business travellers making their money. That about it?

Kinda like what this board calls "socialism" except that instead of everybody getting equal pay the essential people get no pay. What a great incentive to do a good job that is.

Not a bad argument for privitisation.
Congratulations, you just took your first step into a larger world.

 

[boedicca]

You know, one of the most stressful jobs a person can have in the United States is air traffic control. I remember that when I was in the Navy, they did a study to see which job in the Navy was the most stressful, and air traffic controller topped the list.

I can only imagine how much more the stress is now that they have to wait to get their paychecks until the government reopens.

You mean that you can have a high paying job like that, and not have savings and credit lines?

Whose fault is that?

Anyone who earns six figures and doesn't have at least a 6 month rainy day fund is inviting grief.

 

[Lesh]

You know, one of the most stressful jobs a person can have in the United States is air traffic control. I remember that when I was in the Navy, they did a study to see which job in the Navy was the most stressful, and air traffic controller topped the list.

I can only imagine how much more the stress is now that they have to wait to get their paychecks until the government reopens.

You mean that you can have a high paying job like that, and not have savings and credit lines?

Whose fault is that?

Anyone who earns six figures and doesn't have at least a 6 month rainy day fund is inviting grief.

You think many government workers make 6 figures? What’s life like on Planet Stupid?

 

[bripat9643]

You know, one of the most stressful jobs a person can have in the United States is air traffic control. I remember that when I was in the Navy, they did a study to see which job in the Navy was the most stressful, and air traffic controller topped the list.

I can only imagine how much more the stress is now that they have to wait to get their paychecks until the government reopens.

You mean that you can have a high paying job like that, and not have savings and credit lines?

Whose fault is that?

Anyone who earns six figures and doesn't have at least a 6 month rainy day fund is inviting grief.

You think many government workers make 6 figures? What’s life like on Planet Stupid?

I know lots of them that do.

 

[eagle1462010]

0.11% of the entire budget is asked for.........but that is too much..........hmmmm

If it had been Solar arrays they would have been salivating over it.

Shutdown status..............Dems are a bunch of Lying Wankers..........hasn't changed one IOTA.........shall we play the video's again when they were GUNG HO for barriers............

 

[Oddball]

You know, one of the most stressful jobs a person can have in the United States is air traffic control. I remember that when I was in the Navy, they did a study to see which job in the Navy was the most stressful, and air traffic controller topped the list.

I can only imagine how much more the stress is now that they have to wait to get their paychecks until the government reopens.

You mean that you can have a high paying job like that, and not have savings and credit lines?

Whose fault is that?

Anyone who earns six figures and doesn't have at least a 6 month rainy day fund is inviting grief.

You think many government workers make 6 figures? What’s life like on Planet Stupid?

How do you think it happens that seven of the most wealthy counties in Murica surround the District of Criminals?....By paying the bureaucrats $15 an hour?

How's the weather on the Planet Stupid?

 

[JimH52]

Both sides stupid and divisive things.

But the right seems to be better at going mean.

Fox host on federal employees missing paychecks: "At least some people get to go to the beach"

DAGEN MCDOWELL (GUEST HOST): Don't you think that the Democrats are sitting back, waiting for this moment when the furloughed workers don't get their first paycheck, that the first paycheck is missed, because they want that as kind of a tent pole in their, like, media circus?

MICHAEL BLOCK (MARKET STRATEGIST): The problem is, both parties are culpable here.

...

MCDOWELL: 420,000 of them are on the job and not getting paid, so at least some people get to go to the beach, if you will.

Michael Block is right, we need more transparency to see EXACTLY who is offering what...

Build 10 feet of the wall and let the orange clown celebrate...

Exactly

Put his name on in big letters, let him do a photo op and hand out MAGA hats


Declare victory and go home

Have you noticed that his MAGA hat has now gone "WHITE".....hhhhmmmmm

 

[JimH52]

Here is the deal, American people WANT A WALL.

Before there is an agreement how to secure that wall, there won't be paychecks. This is the will of the American people and if you don't like it find a new job. The good news is that soon there will be myriad amount of new positions opening with the wall defense force. Amazing and meaningful American jobs.

Just imagine when your kids grow up and you get to tell them that you were part of the construction effort of the most epic monument ever created. Not to forget, one of the most important ones. The one that finally secures America as its own nation. Federal workers finally can have a real meaning, life is good.

Polls still say they don’t

A wall will be a monument to our hatred and stupidity

It may be ironic that the wall, the very thing that trump campaign promise that would doom him politically, may be the thing that dooms him...when he calls this a national emergency. Calling a political stunt a national emergency will show the voters, except for the 25% rabid trumpettes, what a lame incompetent showman that he is...

 

[Norman]

Here is the deal, American people WANT A WALL.

Before there is an agreement how to secure that wall, there won't be paychecks. This is the will of the American people and if you don't like it find a new job. The good news is that soon there will be myriad amount of new positions opening with the wall defense force. Amazing and meaningful American jobs.

Just imagine when your kids grow up and you get to tell them that you were part of the construction effort of the most epic monument ever created. Not to forget, one of the most important ones. The one that finally secures America as its own nation. Federal workers finally can have a real meaning, life is good.

Polls still say they don’t

A wall will be a monument to our hatred and stupidity

It may be ironic that the wall, the very thing that trump campaign promise that would doom him politically, may be the thing that dooms him...when he calls this a national emergency. Calling a political stunt a national emergency will show the voters, except for the 25% rabid trumpettes, what a lame incompetent showman that he is...

The wall not only will save Trump's presidency, it even has the chance to save the country.

 

[rightwinger]

Here is the deal, American people WANT A WALL.

Before there is an agreement how to secure that wall, there won't be paychecks. This is the will of the American people and if you don't like it find a new job. The good news is that soon there will be myriad amount of new positions opening with the wall defense force. Amazing and meaningful American jobs.

Just imagine when your kids grow up and you get to tell them that you were part of the construction effort of the most epic monument ever created. Not to forget, one of the most important ones. The one that finally secures America as its own nation. Federal workers finally can have a real meaning, life is good.

Polls still say they don’t

A wall will be a monument to our hatred and stupidity

It may be ironic that the wall, the very thing that trump campaign promise that would doom him politically, may be the thing that dooms him...when he calls this a national emergency. Calling a political stunt a national emergency will show the voters, except for the 25% rabid trumpettes, what a lame incompetent showman that he is...

All this is just noise in the Trump saga

The investigation is picking up steam. Trump will be remembered for his crimes....not some stupid wall

 

[Norman]

Here is the deal, American people WANT A WALL.

Before there is an agreement how to secure that wall, there won't be paychecks. This is the will of the American people and if you don't like it find a new job. The good news is that soon there will be myriad amount of new positions opening with the wall defense force. Amazing and meaningful American jobs.

Just imagine when your kids grow up and you get to tell them that you were part of the construction effort of the most epic monument ever created. Not to forget, one of the most important ones. The one that finally secures America as its own nation. Federal workers finally can have a real meaning, life is good.

Polls still say they don’t

A wall will be a monument to our hatred and stupidity

It may be ironic that the wall, the very thing that trump campaign promise that would doom him politically, may be the thing that dooms him...when he calls this a national emergency. Calling a political stunt a national emergency will show the voters, except for the 25% rabid trumpettes, what a lame incompetent showman that he is...

All this is just noise in the Trump saga

The investigation is picking up steam. Trump will be remembered for his crimes....not some stupid wall

The noise you are hearing is the democrats pissing their pants as the government is closed. They know if they give Trump that 5 billion he will smoke them all in 2020. If they don't give Trump the 5 billion government, their only way of livelihood stays closed while Americans barely notice a thing. Trump's symphony rivals that of Mozart's.

 

[JimH52]

ha no...that is the gas trump released when he heard Cohen was going to be on national TV telling the world what a criminal trump and his Mafia family is...

 

[Norman]

ha no...that is the gas trump released when he heard Cohen was going to be on national TV telling the world what a criminal trump and his Mafia family is...

Any minute now... any minute.

One day you will look like Nanci Pelosi and still repeat those words.

 

[bullwinkle]

Both sides stupid and divisive things.

But the right seems to be better at going mean.

Fox host on federal employees missing paychecks: "At least some people get to go to the beach"

DAGEN MCDOWELL (GUEST HOST): Don't you think that the Democrats are sitting back, waiting for this moment when the furloughed workers don't get their first paycheck, that the first paycheck is missed, because they want that as kind of a tent pole in their, like, media circus?

MICHAEL BLOCK (MARKET STRATEGIST): The problem is, both parties are culpable here.

...

MCDOWELL: 420,000 of them are on the job and not getting paid, so at least some people get to go to the beach, if you will.

Michael Block is right, we need more transparency to see EXACTLY who is offering what...

Build 10 feet of the wall and let the orange clown celebrate...

Exactly

Put his name on in big letters, let him do a photo op and hand out MAGA hats


Declare victory and go home

Have you noticed that his MAGA hat has now gone "WHITE".....hhhhmmmmm

Some of the latest reports have one wondering if the hat shouldn't more accurately say MRGA (Make Russia Great Again) now that the effort to relieve sanctions is in full swing.

 

[bullwinkle]

That explains everything that you are a federal employee. Now I understand why you are such a tool.

Can I assume you think all or most federal employees are tools then? It does explain your lack of sympathy for the people whose lives have been turned upside down in limbo because our President made a promise of which he can only keep half..the 'who is paying' half. Or are you just happy for the half promise, seeing as how most of the others are complete flops, like NK de-nuke or 'We got your back' to the Kurds fighting ISIS.

 

[boedicca]

You know, one of the most stressful jobs a person can have in the United States is air traffic control. I remember that when I was in the Navy, they did a study to see which job in the Navy was the most stressful, and air traffic controller topped the list.

I can only imagine how much more the stress is now that they have to wait to get their paychecks until the government reopens.

You mean that you can have a high paying job like that, and not have savings and credit lines?

Whose fault is that?

Anyone who earns six figures and doesn't have at least a 6 month rainy day fund is inviting grief.

You think many government workers make 6 figures? What’s life like on Planet Stupid?

20% make more than $100,000, bub.

1 of Every 5 Government Employees Has a 6-Figure Salary

 

[boedicca]

Both sides stupid and divisive things.

But the right seems to be better at going mean.

Fox host on federal employees missing paychecks: "At least some people get to go to the beach"

DAGEN MCDOWELL (GUEST HOST): Don't you think that the Democrats are sitting back, waiting for this moment when the furloughed workers don't get their first paycheck, that the first paycheck is missed, because they want that as kind of a tent pole in their, like, media circus?

MICHAEL BLOCK (MARKET STRATEGIST): The problem is, both parties are culpable here.

...

MCDOWELL: 420,000 of them are on the job and not getting paid, so at least some people get to go to the beach, if you will.

Michael Block is right, we need more transparency to see EXACTLY who is offering what...

Build 10 feet of the wall and let the orange clown celebrate...

Exactly

Put his name on in big letters, let him do a photo op and hand out MAGA hats


Declare victory and go home

Have you noticed that his MAGA hat has now gone "WHITE".....hhhhmmmmm

Some of the latest reports have one wondering if the hat shouldn't more accurately say MRGA (Make Russia Great Again) now that the effort to relieve sanctions is in full swing.

*sigh* It's too depressing what some people think passes for humor these days.

What we really need to do is Make Humor Great Again.