Monday, April 11, 2011

Mass BlackBerry confusion in looming shutdown

The Antideficiency Act, passed by Congress during Chester Arthur's administration, prevents non-essential federal employees   from working when the government has no budget with which to pay them. If the government were to shut down Friday, the 800,000 furloughed federal employees would actually be violating the law if they were to check their work e-mail. so with out the government we would not have the black berry.

2 comments:

  1. I'm so glad they settled for now. I was going to feel very bad for the soldiers who would still have to fight w/out pay. Luckily the matter is "tabled" until next year or so.

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  2. whoa, i did not know that. huh. idc, don't have a blackberry anyways

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