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I mean.... Good? TSA is worthless anyway, they should be shut down forever. I hope it's one of the first agencies that are completely abolished
As I said elsewhere, those people have kids to feed and forcing people to work without pay is slavery.
So no, not good.
That's not how this works.
Shutdown doesn't mean no pay, it means no check issued for non essentials. You get furloughed and don't work unless you choose to, everyone that is expected to work is covered by supplemental budget.
David Pekoske, the head of the TSA, tweeted that 95% of TSA employees are classified as essential workers and will work without pay in the event of a shutdown. Air traffic controllers are also considered essential employees and would be asked to work without pay.
You might want to check before you make these declarations. I do.
Federal employees would receive backpay after the shutdown ends.
Slaves have to work bud, employees choose to. You could just say your hyperbole is a bit much rather then insist gainfully employed people are actual slaves anymore than any of the test of us wage slaves.
Ed:
Also if you read up there are programs specially for this because it's so absurd and common. https://www.ussfcu.org/federal-government-shutdown-assistance.html
USAA and Navy Federal offer the same zero interest loans as well.
They get paid, I'm not sure your intention with this random hyperbolic doomsaying is but it's unproductive and misleading at best.
Sure. "We'll pay you eventually, double swearsies, but you are required to work until then" totally isn't slavery.
They've never not been paid, doing otherwise is fraud even for the government.
And no, that's not slavery. Slavery is a forced servitude, you're not a slave because your mom asked you to take out the trash for "$20 next week if finances work out".
Not the everything is literally slavery or literally Hitler no matter how hard you wring your hands and stir the pot.
Do you know what happens when you live paycheck-to-paycheck, like the vast majority of Americans, and they stop paying you for a while? Do you know what happens to children in those situations?
Opm holds 90 days in reserve, appropriations usually issues another 90 if needed, add another 90 days by zero interest loan and you have pay for approximately 270 days.
Currently opm projects no non payment, stop doomsaying when this happens periodically like clockwork.
Ed: also distinctly different from slavery given the voluntary nature of employment. It's bad, it isn't however "literally slavery" no matter how hard you clutch your pearls.
I literally quoted you a news article that says that they will work without pay in the event of a shutdown. Why are you pretending the opposite is true?
The TSA who say that literally Everytime? The TSA that doesn't control their own payroll? That one?
2018
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-affect-air-travel/
Most TSA workers, about 95%, are considered essential, and would therefore remain on the job in the event of a shutdown — but without pay — TSA administrator David Pekoske said in a post on X.
Guess how many did not get paid.
2013
https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2015/02/25/tsa-workers-deserve-more-iou
A shutdown for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) means that most of our employees would still continue to come to work, without receiving a paycheck for that work until the shutdown ends.
Guess how many did not get paid.
A baited hook does not necessitate a bite, sometimes people just say shut to scare you and this is one of those times.
Notably, I can't help but notice you aren't calling it slavery anymore. Have we backed away from that ill thought out and obscenely offensive analogy?