Dear Congress...

Moneypenny424 · April 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_dear-congress?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:9824befc-7d7c-461d-bf0c-795d4f310979Post:657baf53-1210-45aa-87e4-52b1cfd3cb0b">Re: Dear Congress...</a>:
[QUOTE]Are you sure?? This is what I've found several times... <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/04/08/government-shutdown-what-to-expect/" rel='nofollow'>http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/04/08/government-shutdown-what-to-expect/</a> INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE: IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said that if there is a government shutdown, the tax-return due date will remain April 18. Mr. Shulman encouraged taxpayers to e-file returns, because those are processed automatically and refunds would not be delayed. But he said there would be delays in processing paper returns and providing refunds for paper returns.
Posted by louisvillebride21[/QUOTE]

Cool. Ours will still be held up because of some other funky stuff though. They're already taking their sweet time with ours.

louisvillebride21 · April 2011

::puts on tin foil hat::

Since I'm religious and all, I think we're in the End Times. Now, I'm not saying it will happen in our lifetime, but there are so many signs here from Revelations.

cengle · April 2011

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[QUOTE]WAIT WAIT WAIT does it say on that board that parole officers might not be able to freaking monitor parolees??? For serious??
Posted by NuggetBrain[/QUOTE]

That's the way I read that too. Awesome.
As if probation officers aren't already overworked and underpaid. Jeebus.

louisvillebride21 · April 2011

Oh, sorry Money. You freaked me out there for a second! It's supposed to fund our anniversary trip!

Moneypenny424 · April 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_dear-congress?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:9824befc-7d7c-461d-bf0c-795d4f310979Post:749233e8-4410-48cc-b273-2508d88523ef">Re: Dear Congress...</a>:
[QUOTE]...good thing I already spent my tax refund. Guh.
Posted by FutureMrsFezz[/QUOTE]

I'm just paying strippers with packs of gum right now.

Rosie109 · April 2011

I am still holding on to hope that they will reach a compromise and make liars out of all of the haters. Please oh please oh please make liars of the haters

Stackeye210 · April 2011

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[QUOTE]DNB! I feel your pain! It's a matter of national security for FI to report to work since he is in federal law enforcement... but somehow compensating him doesn't fit the bill. He will be working on IOUs come Monday. It's cool, we don't need groceries or to pay the car insurance bill due next week. Oh, and al the civilians he works with... like the secretaries, cafeteria workrs and janitorial people at the federal building won't be there. So, basically they have to go to work with no support staff at all.
Posted by katelynbrian[/QUOTE]

Wow. That sounds so unbelievably unsafe!

NuggetBrain · April 2011

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[QUOTE]I'll be drinking my tax refund on the beaches of Mexico in about a momf.
Posted by crfische[/QUOTE]

If you had just waited a damn month to get murried you'd be at the beach with me and Noodle. I'M JUST SAYING.

FutureMrsFezz · April 2011

You're so wise, MP. I should have thought of that.

crfische · April 2011

I NEEDED TO GET MARRIED MAY 23rd!

STUPID ME.

NuggetBrain · April 2011

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[QUOTE]I am still holding on to hope that they will reach a compromise and make liars out of all of the haters. Please oh please oh please make liars of the haters :(
Posted by Rosie109[/QUOTE]

I would never in my life love to be proven more wrong.

Wait...did that make sense? I don't know if that was a proper sentence. Whatever, I'm tired. You know what I mean.

Stackeye210 · April 2011

So the hold up is apparently one side wants to cut funding to Planned Parenthood? Am I reading this correctly? Sounds personal.

THERE ARE NO FEELINGS IN BUSINESS /> Isn't that like the first rule when it comes to serious chizz like this?

Stackeye210 · April 2011

I got married May 23rd because it's awesome.

sarabellam · April 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Dear Congress... : Yup. Me too. We had to file on paper for federal because of some IRA thing we did. This whole situation is BS. Our government is run by a bunch of whiny little girls who act like they've unjustly had their dolls taken away.
Posted by cengle[/QUOTE]

Or whiney-ass little boys who've had their football taken away. I don't give a hairy rat's ass about your reasons for your attempted end-run around Roe v. Wade, your attempts to dismantle Medicare, or your thousand other petty little squabbles. You were elected to do a fucking job and actually LEAD this country! Get off your petty partisan asses and actually DO IT!!!

Beachy730 · April 2011

Yeah, I would love to be proven wrong. Please!

And yes, it's because of planned parenthood funding. BS.

FutureMrsFezz · April 2011

There's no crying in baseball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry that's what you made me think of, Stacky.

emilykathleen511 · April 2011

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[QUOTE]DNB! I feel your pain! It's a matter of national security for FI to report to work since he is in federal law enforcement... but somehow compensating him doesn't fit the bill. He will be working on IOUs come Monday. It's cool, we don't need groceries or to pay the car insurance bill due next week. Oh, and al the civilians he works with... like the secretaries, cafeteria workrs and janitorial people at the federal building won't be there. So, basically they have to go to work with no support staff at all.
Posted by katelynbrian[/QUOTE]

At least he'll eventually get paid for that time...my fiance is a civilian architect working for the Air Force. So, um, he just won't be allowed to work and won't ever get paid for that time. Awesome.

Rosie109 · April 2011

Its a big pissing contest in my eyes. Who can pee the longest. and right now the american people are the ones being pissed on.

God I feel like such a guy for talking like this.

crfische · April 2011

Let them have safe sex.

And then go back to work, people.

Stacks, I forget we have the same anniversary! Only, I was a loser who got married on a FRIDAY and everyone complained about how INCONVENIENT it was. Blah blah blah.

I'm so kidding. No one cared.

cengle · April 2011

I'm wondering if this will affect my dad. He's a janitor at a veterans' hospital. I just assumed keeping a hospital clean would be essential, but I don't know. My parents would be screwed if he's furloughed or doesn't get paid.

Stackeye210 · April 2011

Rosie and a golden shower reference. I'm shocked.

mica178 · April 2011

I just sent in a tax check to the IRS. I wonder if they'll manage to process it. I'm thinking they will.

H is waiting for his refund. I guess he's going to keep on waiting, since he couldn't e-file (we filed separately this year).

Stackeye210 · April 2011

No worries Fische. I wrecked everyone's Memorial Day weekend by making them attend my wedding. It's all good.

FutureMrsFezz · April 2011

:snort:

:winks at rosie:

sarabellam · April 2011

And a total threadjack here, but DNB, I may have met the wife of a shipmate of your husband. She is stuck here in St Marys because they can't sell their house (her husband used to be stationed on a submarine at Kings Bay), but he's now stationed on a carrier out of Bremerton.

cengle · April 2011

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[QUOTE]Its a big pissing contest in my eyes. Who can pee the longest. and right now the american people are the ones being pissed on. God I feel like such a guy for talking like this.
Posted by Rosie109[/QUOTE]

That is probably the most accurate representation I've heard all week.

NuggetBrain · April 2011

Dude, Rosie. That was spot-freaking-on.

Rosie109 · April 2011

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[QUOTE]I'm wondering if this will affect my dad. He's a janitor at a veterans' hospital. I just assumed keeping a hospital clean would be essential, but I don't know. My parents would be screwed if he's furloughed or doesn't get paid.
Posted by cengle[/QUOTE]

I work for a nonprofit company that works FOR the VA and we were all sent emails saying (essentially) not to worry about the VA

aragx6 · April 2011

Obama said he would sign another CR (Continuing Resolution) if it didn't include any bs or extra provisions, but it appears Boehner has absolutely no control over the far right of the party. If he can't get them on the same page, any compromise they reach is going to be a failure.

What scares me isn't the possibility of a shutdown but rather the possibility of how long it might last.

Democrats have met in the middle on this issue several times now, but the far right of the Republican party doesn't want to play ball. They are convinced that "starving the beast" is the only way to effect change. But a LOT of Americans are going to suffer for it.

Beachy730 · April 2011

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[QUOTE]And a total threadjack here, but DNB, I may have met the wife of a shipmate of your husband. She is stuck here in St Marys because they can't sell their house (her husband used to be stationed on a submarine at Kings Bay), but he's now stationed on a carrier out of Bremerton.
Posted by sarabellam[/QUOTE]

<div>Nope, that's just across the sound from us though!</div>

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