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SickOfTheOnePct

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17. That makes perfect sense...

Reply to Bengus81 (Reply #16)

Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:52 AM

Jul 2025

...if you quit due to wage theft.

Voluntarily quitting when you're going to collect up to six months of pay and benefits, during which time you're also permitted to find other work is not quite the same.

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The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work [View all] BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 OP

This deferred "unemployment" UpInArms Jul 2025 #1

The program was voluntary SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #3

I understand your point, UpInArms Jul 2025 #4

Yes... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #5

I'm still wondering why... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #2

"I'm still wondering why...you view the DRP as a violation of the Antideficiency Act and Impoundment Act. " BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 #10

I narrowed it to that... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #13

You didn't read through the rest of the article BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 #20

I'm not disagreeing that it's wasteful... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #21

Remember that the initial "Fork in the Road" stuff was sent out BEFORE the March C.R. was passed BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 #23

We'll just agree to disagree SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #24

I go back to the mid '80s although most of those lapses were temporary back then BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 #25

Oops one quick thing... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #22

It's like DOGE ... in reverse! FakeNoose Jul 2025 #6

I had a friend with a push button transmission in a Dodge. If you were going forward and pushed the reverse button twodogsbarking Jul 2025 #12

LOL! My mom owned one of those in the 60's. A 1958 Coronet. Bengus81 Jul 2025 #15

Wasn't your mom, my friend was a guy. It was in the 60s however. twodogsbarking Jul 2025 #19

Sounds like they are running that program like they run many farm subsidies Scalded Nun Jul 2025 #7

Unemployment Jughead Jul 2025 #8

Pretty sure... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #9

Actually you can. You have to go before a judge and ague your case Bengus81 Jul 2025 #16

That makes perfect sense... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #17

Correction, 154,001. twodogsbarking Jul 2025 #11

Does that number include Trump, Vance, and the GOP Congress? LudwigPastorius Jul 2025 #14

This from the party that does nothing but vilify the unemployed. They have fucking wackjob candidates posing outside Karasu Jul 2025 #18

Just waiting for this to happen... haele Jul 2025 #26

I wish I was one of them Polybius Jul 2025 #27

It doesn't suck SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #28