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DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: ‘Employees on the front lines will be forced to come to work without pay’
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By Shepard Ambellas
WASHINGTON D.C. (INTELLIHUB) — If a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were to take place on Feb. 28, when it runs out of federal funding, DHS employees “on the front lines [...] will be forced to come to work without a paycheck”, according to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson who appeared on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, dropping the jaws on some.
What is this?
I thought we lived in America.
“Forced”?
What does he mean?
It’s ludicrous to believe, and it keeps screaming out at me, how DHS Secretary Johnson actually thinks that by checking a few random bags at an airport checkpoint, harassing a few people who refuse the naked body scanners while waiting in the screening line, or opening a few shipping crates at a coastal port is more important than feeding one’s family. However the fact of the matter is “without a paycheck” one can not support themselves, let alone support their family (if applicable). Which means they likely will have to do what it takes to find employment elsewhere. But where?
To boot it’s only a matter of time before the bankrupt government, the Corporation of the United States; i.e. Washington D.C., suffers a flip of the script and will be forced to admit they can no longer pour money into the coffers of their private corporations which have indulged themselves in large lucrative no-bid contracts for eons.
As it stands now members of Congress will be moping back into their seats Tuesday as they prepare for the ultimate showdown spectacular that will decide the fate of the DHS and its employees for the time-being. In fact the TSA and even FEMA workers are being threatened with ‘no pay’.
You see — a vast number of the “230,000 people” employed by the DHS are considered “essential” to the agencies operations. Although an anticipated 30,000 employees will be furloughed outright the remaining 200,000 employees are expected to report to work “without pay”, as stated by DHS Secretary Johnson.
Additionally, Johnson said in the same CNN interview that “something like 80 percent” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) “permanent appropriated workers” would stay home. That statement ignores the fact that many of the agency’s workers aren’t funded through the annual appropriations process, according to a Factcheck.org review. The 2013 DHS report found that 78 percent of FEMA’s 14,729 employees would stay on the job if the agency went unfunded. Plus, more than one-third of FEMA’s disaster workforce comes from reservists, according to a Government Accountability Office report, and they aren’t reliant on annual funding from Congress, as reported by CBS.
Moreover CBS reported that if funding failed to be approved the Secret Service would experience cuts as well, further pushing back their window to hire a new staff to protect 2016 presidential nominees.
President Obama gave us “change” alright. A few pennies left in our pockets.
About the author:
Shepard Ambellas is the founder, editor-in-chief of Intellihub News and the maker of SHADE the Motion Picture. You can also find him on Twitter and Facebook. Shepard also appears on the Travel Channel series America Declassified. You can also listen to him on Coast To Coast AM with hosts, both, George Noory on “Chemtrails” and John B. Wells on the “Alternative Media Special“. Shepard Ambellas has also been featured on the Drudge Report, the largest news website in the entire world, for his provocative coverage of the Bilderberg Group.
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