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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	The real irony of it all
	Date:	2/22/2011 3:55:59 PM

If the government shuts down and they send all the non-essential employees home here is what will happen. They will be unpaid until the budget or a continuing resolution is passed. Then they will be paid for the time they were off. They will be told this is what is going to happen when they leave. The government media will have an endless parade of government workers bemoaning their fiscal ruin knowing all along they will eventually be paid for the time off but making it seem like they are losing this income forever.

It happened before in the 90's while my wife was a federal employee. It was a sham then and it will be a sham now. The only difference is that with unemployment at 10% and underemployment at 20% these government employees will get no sympathy from the millions of Americans that have lost their private sector jobs or are working part time or in jobs that pay a lot less. There are too many reliable alternative media sources that are too
popular to let them get away with this fabrication of a government shut
down. It will be extra paid vacation, but they will have to wait a
little while to get paid. And most Americans will resent them complaining just as they resent the unions in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere whining about having to pay a little more of their health insurance and retirement.

Dems will get the blame for this one and it will backfire.