Paid Recess?

Now let me get this straight. - Congress, after wasting most of the past six months, has left for vacation but did not officially call a recess, ostensibly so that the President could not use the period to appoint someone to head up the new Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.  Though needed in Washington and not on 'recess', the members now refuse to return from their vacations to fix the FAA's dysfunction that is costing the Federal Government $30,000,000 a day in uncollected taxes and perhaps creating unsafe conditions for airline passengers.  This has now resulted in $390,000,000's poured down the drain. But hey, when you are used to dealing numbers that end in Billions and Trillions, I guess this is chump change.

How many of us have had our vacations cancelled, or interrupted for far less?  Surely, any of us would have lost our jobs had we not 'risen to the occasion' and supported the home team.  But I guess this is what job security is all about.  Can you believe such foolishness?


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