As government freezes Social Security benefits, employees get extra day off

[lonestarnot]

By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 -- 10:20 am

Employees of the Social Security Administration will receive an extra day off work the Friday after Thanksgiving, according to Federal News Radio.

The Administration, which employs nearly 65,000 people, is allowing nonemergency workers to take the day off on November, 26th, the day after Thanksgiving.

Social Security workers "faced unprecedented workloads and unprecedented hostility from an increasingly stressed public," Commissioner Michael J. Astrue told his employees in a memo. "While many government agencies understandably have moved backward in this climate, you have moved forward."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/government-freezes-social-security-benefits-employees-extra-day/

"...We don't get enough from Social Security and everything is going up," Mildred McLaughlin, a retired librarian, told The Daily Item. "I just keep getting deeper and deeper in debt."

[PSPS]

1. "Extra" day? Almost everyone takes the Friday after Thanksgiving off.

It's the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season.

[jbnow]

2. "Government" didn't freeze Social Security benefits of course.

It is a cost of living formula that has been in place for years and it is figured automatically

Fed workers actually get fewer paid days off than other civil workers and many other benefits don't live up to other employment either

[Wickerman]

3. The Fed hasn't always taken the day after thanksgiving off?

:wtf:

I was expecting better from RawStory. I think.

[Bitwit1234]

4. If you go back and check you will find that

lots of presidents and governors have given employees the day after Thanksgiving off. It is cheaper to keep closed down the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday than to reopen it has been proved. Retail stays open because that is a day where shoppers go wild with spending for Christmas.

And along with 12 Democrats every single one of the republicans voted not to give seniors that $250 pick up for not having a raise last year. BLAME THE REPUBLICANS. And I bet it happens again this year. The republicans will vote NO as usual while messing their pants to try to keep the richest of the rich's tax cut.