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‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’?

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 29 Comments

Harry Reid says “no compromise” and, as of this hour, TV talking heads are acting as if a government shutdown is all but certain tonight, which would mean the temporary furlough of “non-essential” government employees, which naturally inspires a few questions:

If they’re not “essential” why did we hire them in the first place?

UPDATE: Don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier:

Could we get the #FurloughJoe hashtag trending?

 

Category: Budget

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29 Responses to “‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’?”

  1. CHideout
    September 30th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm

    ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’?: Harry Reid says “no compromise” and, as of this hour, TV talking heads are ac… http://t.co/m2tDT43Cx4

  2. MrEvilMatt
    September 30th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm

    ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’?: Harry Reid says “no compromise” and, as of this hour, TV talking heads are ac… http://t.co/UeWQrZNEX8

  3. jwbrown1969
    September 30th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm

    ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’?: Harry Reid says “no compromise” and, as of this hour, TV talking heads are ac… http://t.co/XbZt7SsIwF

  4. Lockestep1776
    September 30th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm

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  5. Citzcom
    September 30th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm

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  6. rsmccain
    September 30th, 2013 @ 4:52 pm

    ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’? http://t.co/LmPEtql7D4 | @instapundit @AceofSpadesHQ @TwitchyTeam #HarryReidsShutdown

  7. babylon_cat
    September 30th, 2013 @ 5:05 pm

    ****‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’? http://t.co/RrapzMFGVB #FurloughJoe

  8. richard mcenroe
    September 30th, 2013 @ 5:29 pm

    Trick question, right? All those gallant civil servants are indispensable. It’s the taxpayers who are expendable.

  9. Professor_Why
    September 30th, 2013 @ 5:49 pm

    ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’? http://t.co/jvSDnDe1uT

  10. JRoAZ
    September 30th, 2013 @ 6:06 pm

    Excellent take on who is essential? http://t.co/qp2QW84ULf

  11. Regular Right Guy
    September 30th, 2013 @ 6:10 pm

    You are too fast for me RM.

  12. JadedByPolitics
    September 30th, 2013 @ 6:11 pm

    ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’? http://t.co/IFljHtW8MQ

  13. Kerry Dar-Du
    September 30th, 2013 @ 6:12 pm

    Kerry Dar-Du liked this on Facebook.

  14. BobBelvedere
    September 30th, 2013 @ 6:42 pm

    RT @rsmccain: ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’? http://t.co/vMMukamoj9 | #HarryReidsShutdown | #BlameHarryReid

  15. Charles
    September 30th, 2013 @ 6:52 pm

    Why do you think Joe sent you that email asking for $3? He knows he is nonessential.

  16. JackAfter6
    September 30th, 2013 @ 7:02 pm

    I’m going to get a little esoteric here…Milton Waddams would be your quintessential paradigm of a “non-essential” employee.

    Bob Slydell: Milton Waddams.

    Dom Portwood: Who’s he?

    Bob Porter: You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.

    Dom Portwood: Oh, yeah.

    Bob Slydell: Yeah, we can’t actually find a record of him being a current employee here.

    Bob Porter: I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.

    Bob Slydell: So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.

    Bill Lumbergh: Great.

    Dom Portwood: So, uh, Milton has been let go?

    Bob Slydell: Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won’t be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it’ll just work itself out naturally.

    Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem is solved from your end.

  17. joethefatman1
    September 30th, 2013 @ 7:16 pm

    ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’? http://t.co/YgOAEvxwIq

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  19. thatMrGguy
    September 30th, 2013 @ 7:51 pm

    ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’? http://t.co/IyjJ8Dco3J

  20. cmdr358
    September 30th, 2013 @ 8:13 pm

    The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  21. JoyKeller1
    September 30th, 2013 @ 8:15 pm

    ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’? http://t.co/R0JOOcffYk #ObamaReidShutdown #BlameHarryReid

  22. KingShamus
    September 30th, 2013 @ 9:52 pm

    RT @JRoAZ: Excellent take on who is essential? http://t.co/qp2QW84ULf

  23. Adjoran
    October 1st, 2013 @ 12:27 am

    Joe Biden is the most essential federal employee there is.

    His job is to be there to fill his constitutional role when God strikes down Obama.

    We just don’t know when it will happen, so Joe has to stick around and have someone hold his hand if he crosses the street. I mean, if anything happened to Joe, and God came through around the same time, it would mean President Boehner.

    Heads would explode.

  24. JeremyR
    October 1st, 2013 @ 12:56 am

    Add the Thousands of Sexual Assailants to the list of nonessentials. Why can’t the air lines handle their own security?
    The unfortunate thing is Obambi will intentionlly cut needed services and keep his cronies in place. its his MO. He won’t change.

  25. Shawny
    October 1st, 2013 @ 3:50 am

    Is the White House leader who issued the “stand down” orders for those who might have saved American lives in Benghazi an “essential” or “non-essential” P.O.S.? Wish Ambassador Stevens were still alive to answer.

  26. Quartermaster
    October 1st, 2013 @ 6:48 am

    Many of those heads would belong to GOP establishment types.

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    October 1st, 2013 @ 3:43 pm

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