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Does it make sense to pay backpay for shutdowns?  Not really.  But shutdowns themselves don't make sense.  [/quote]

It's basically a lockout - an employer telling its employees that they can't work, can't take another job, and have to return as soon as they declare.  Yet it's not sensible to pay?  Yeah, I get it - the employees in many cases aren't going actual work for the government (legally they can't) but the employer is specifically telling them not to work even though they continue to be employed.

Just so it's clear - it's not like a vacation.  You can't plan anything around it.  You don't know until midnight on Sept. 30 that it's starting, and it could last an hour, a day, a week, a month.  And you're not getting paid.  Who could just go off and have fun during that period.

It's horribly inefficient to be sure - I'd rather work for my pay than not - but it is entirely because Congress and the President can't get their acts together (obviously the blame falls more specifically in each shutdown).  If nothing else, federal employees should get paid as recompense for the big FU C and P give them every so often.[/quote]

Not the President's job. President asks for the moon. Congress gives whatever they decide. [/quote]

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