Quote:To my knowledge, whenever. SHUTDOWN occurs all the backpay gets made up. No one actually lost money. Public sector unions would never allow that.

There is that, which is good. But interest still accumulated from those debts that were due. 2 weeks in this economy without any pay, when things are really tight can affect things, even if a few months the line you get paid back.


I tore my Achilles in October, trust me, I know what it's like to miss a paycheck. It's tough.


At the end of the day, workers got hosed for a stupid trick a politician did in order to ramp up his run for presidency. That Cuban Canadian only cares about himself, and can go kick rocks for all I care.


Lastly, some websites report that up to 15,000 government workers never got paid back...

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