Free Lunch Project

[Pat McCotter]

And the casinos are closed because the casino inspectors aren't working?
The lottery is shutdown?

You would think the world couldn't function without government employees!

[Russell Kanning]

It has got to hurt NJ's chances. How can you have free lunches if the government is shut down?
Do the government employees get paid when the government shuts down?

[Caleb]

I read in the USA Today that 40,000 NJ state employees in "critical" jobs are working without pay.   [[evil, Butthead laugh]] 

[Dreepa]

I read in the USA Today that 40,000 NJ state employees in "critical" jobs are working

without pay

.   [[evil, Butthead laugh]] 

I bet that after the gov caves and funds and the government is back up and running that they people that worked will received back pay.

I think that is what happened when the Fed Gov closed down in the mid 90s.

[Minsk]

But it's gotta be healthy free lunches, because otherwise the population will wind up overweight. I propose Canada as a good subject, thanks to people like this:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1152222610335

I've been corrupted by you folks. Rather than my reaction being "what a bloody waste of money" and then forgetting about it, I got distracted by the stupid rules that would be imposed on companies.

[lildog]

It has got to hurt NJ's chances. How can you have free lunches if the government is shut down?
Do the government employees get paid when the government shuts down?

I'm shocked that hasn't become a thread of its own.... or have I just missed it?

[Caleb]

Well, I'm not going to withdraw my support for Wisconsin just yet ...

But California is starting to look even more enticing.  I was reading USA Today, and they had a great article about the Mayor of San Francisco taking matters into his own hands with respect to health care.  He's instituting citywide, single payer health care.  The funny thing is, he's claiming that he has the authority to do this all by himself, he's not even sending it to the City Council for them to vote on it.

Wow!  Free health care.  The catch is, its going to be paid by local businesses.  They're screaming bloody murder, but he says that, since not enough businesses have volunteered to fund the program, he's going to have to FORCE them.

What a great opportunity for the FLP, if we could concentrate 20,000 liberty-detesting moochers in San Francisco to take advantage of this wonderful advance in government benefits.

[Braddogg]

Massachusetts just voted to raise the state minimum wage to $8.00/hour by January 1, 2008, the highest in the country.     

VOTE MASS FOR FLP!

[Kat Kanning]

wow, might be time for another mass edition of the newspaper.

[Braddogg]

wow, might be time for another mass edition of the newspaper.

Speaking of which, thank you for sending me those boxes.  I hadn't realized how many those were   I found that if I went to the end of the red line on the subway during rush hour, then for the first two or three stops put copies on the seats on the train, by the time the train made it to the end of the station nearly every copy had been picked up and at least glanced at.

[Pat McCotter]

Massachusetts just voted to raise the state minimum wage to $8.00/hour by January 1, 2008, the highest in the country.     

VOTE MASS FOR FLP!

The workers need some way to pay for the mandated health insurance!

[lildog]

Take a good look at New Jersey, folks, because that's what could happen to our federal gov...Hopefully!!!  Yay, secession!!!!

What I find funny about that is the casinos seem to be the only thing the people actually notice and they are private businesses being controlled by the government.

[Russell Kanning]

In California .... they always closed the lakes and beaches first.

[KBCraig]

In California .... they always closed the lakes and beaches first.

Take away the bread and circuses, and people start demanding the state spend money.

[lildog]

Does anyone here know someone who lives in NJ?  I'd love to hear if anyone actually even noticed the government shut down in anything other then areas in the public such as beaches or casinos that the government took over.