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| Subject: Awww, federal parasites upset over shutdown - STFU leeches! Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:58 pm | |
| The frustration is everywhere in the District's federal corridors.
Worker after worker walked out of their government office on Tuesday, the first workday of the government shutdown. They knew a shutdown was possible, but that still doesn't make Tuesday any easier. Kennth Hartenstine has been a federal worker with the FAA for nearly four decades. He headed home Tuesday morning disappointed. “I just wish that congress would get their act together and pass a bill to pay us,” he says. “All the other stuff they should negotiate but not at our expense.” The last shutdown in 1995 lasted 21 days. Linda Louers is worried the current shutdown could take as long. “I'm very disappointed and angry because these people were voted into these positions and it if were me in my job I would've lost my job a long time ago,” Louers says. The White House issued a letter Tuesday to all federal workers thanking them for their service and sacrifice saying, "this shutdown was completely preventable. It should not have happened. And the House of Representatives can end it as soon as it follows the Senate's lead, and funds your work in the United States government.” Approximately 800,000 federal workers are now off the job without paychecks and no sense of when Congress will allow their lives to get back to normal.
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/10/government-shutdown-2013-federal-employees-upset-over-shutdown-94732.html |
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