Obama Administration report cost of last month's shutdown

[Rangergxi]

[url]http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/07/21352728-obama-administration-report-details-cost-of-last-months-shutdown?lite[/url]

[QUOTE]President Barack Obama’s budget chief Sylvia Mathews Burwell said Thursday that last month’s 16-day partial shutdown of the federal government cost taxpayers more than $2.5 billion for work that furloughed federal employees never got a chance to do.

At the peak of the furloughs, about 850,000 workers -- 40 percent of the civilian federal workforce -- were not at work, Burwell said, although that number dropped once Congress passed the Pay Our Military Act, and 400,000 workers returned to their jobs.

A report from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) found that federal employees were furloughed for a combined total of 6.6 million work days.
“The cost of pay due to federal employees furloughed during the shutdown is roughly $2.0 billion; total compensation costs are about 30 percent larger (about $2.5 billion),” the report said.[/QUOTE]

Its a shame that nobody will be held accountable.

[ayay]

Fucking thanks you fucking retards in the government.

[Raidyr]

[QUOTE=luverofJ!93;42807639]Fucking thanks you fucking retards in the government.[/QUOTE]

Specifically House Republicans.

[pr00ch]

All this money could've gone to the Army, I bet they're sorry now!

[Awesomecaek]

can we just lynch Obama already and get over with it

I have NASCAR to watch in the evening

[Jojje]

all that money because a bunch of children couldn't agree

[Raidyr]

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;42808211]can we just lynch Obama already and get over with it

I have NASCAR to watch in the evening[/QUOTE]
I didn't know NASCAR was big in the Czech Republic.

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=Raidyr;42808299]I didn't know NASCAR was big in the Czech Republic.[/QUOTE]

He's parodying rednecks.

After all, saying [I]"making love to my cousin who's also my sister"[/I] would be too obvious.

[pr00ch]

[QUOTE=Matthew0505;42808187]$2.5 bn isn't really much in terms of government wastage.[/QUOTE]

Still could've gone somewhere a lot more productive, I suppose.

[MightyLOLZOR]

The country is in such deep debt that money hardly matters anymore.

[RainbowStalin]

Well why'd you shut down the government then obongo duh what a dumb guy