we've noticed... especially around election times... 😟

DrafterX wrote:

My son is active military and claims the PX is more expensive than anywhere else especially for electronics etc. That seems weird to me. Is that true? Sorry just reread you are a contractor. Nevermind.

teedubbya wrote:

Used to be the other way around. PX used to be the best deal in town.
Your son's in the military? What you do? Enlist him & move out of town before he woke up in his duffel bag?

bloody spaniard wrote:

I get to work for free until they can come to an agreement. Then I "might" get paid. There's nothing saying we (essential personnel) have to be paid when the government reopens. But I'm sure the mortgage, car loan, groceries, oil company, electric company, and diapers can all be paid for with faith in the us government & the letter begging for patience understanding we got today.
It wouldn't be so hard to swallow if I got furloughed. At least then I would be able to take some odd jobs to have some kind of income.....

JB113 wrote:

I'm right there with you. Forced into work with no promise of being paid for worked performed once this fiasco is resolved. All sick leave cancelled and all vacation time cancelled as well. A co-worker that just had surgery to remove large cancerous lumps from his head was called and told his sick leave was cancelled and he needs to return to work.

JGKAMIN wrote:

With this whole essential versus non-essential, forloughs from sequestration, and now retroactive pay issues you would think Federal employees would be quiting their jobs in large quantities.

Even under the Obama Cone of Protection, there are still a few speed bumps. This too shall pass and the milk and honey will return.

HockeyDad wrote:

But forgive me for taking the diminutive Reich's perceived socialist point of view, but wouldn't raising taxes on the corporate & rich allow for more resources for the middle class & poor which they would in turn spend vs. hiding in overseas accounts & ventures? Trickle down theory has been largely discredited by many including it's author David Stockman.

Another interesting aside is that Kalifornia which until recently had a huge deficit, decided to make spending cuts AND increase taxes under Brown's governorship. They now supposedly have a nice surplus.

bloody spaniard wrote:

Sorry we can't quit or retire right now, no one to send the application to.

zitotczito wrote:

Who said anything about Trickle Down?! Trickle Up is also widely discredited.

Raising taxes on corporations mean job will be destroyed. Through cost cutting or prices increased. Raising taxes on the rich means they buy muni bonds taxfree.

California is a wonderful but they still can't keep their residents from evacuating eastward. If it weren't for Mexicans, its population would be shrinking.

Cut taxes for everyone and increase govt borrowing is what I suggest.

HockeyDad wrote:

So California went from deficit to surplus in a relatively short time due to spending cuts only? Raising taxes on the wealthy and on corporations didn't help?

bloody spaniard wrote: