Juneteenth

[Core Shot]

What a bunch of entitled communist socialist millennials and boomers or whatever.

I wish we had a flat tax so you baristas could contribute some taxes to the federal feed trough.

Juneteenth is fine by me.
I just don’t want to pay for it.

[Mazderati]

What a bunch of entitled communist socialist millennials and boomers or whatever.

I wish we had a flat tax so you baristas could contribute some taxes to the federal feed trough.

Juneteenth is fine by me.
I just don’t want to pay for it.

How'd that PPP money work out?

[Hott Butt Mud]

What a bunch of entitled communist socialist millennials and boomers or whatever.

I wish we had a flat tax so you baristas could contribute some taxes to the federal feed trough.

Juneteenth is fine by me.
I just don’t want to pay for it.

hahaha, says the guy who took out a PPP loan and had it forgiven. You're such a douchebag.

[Cisco Kid]

Before there was a Columbus Day, in the view of the Protestant masses, the only famous Italians were in The Mob and they were from Sicily so they weren't really white.

Juneteenth is a good idea IMO. Gets the ball rolling.

[Core Shot]

How'd that PPP money work out?

hahaha, says the guy who took out a PPP loan and had it forgiven. You're such a douchebag.

Yep. I take everything they let me keep.
And they have taken way more over my lifetime. It’s a partial refund.

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With the stroke of his pen Thursday, President Joe Biden signed legislation giving millions of federal employees Friday off to celebrate Saturday’s new federal holiday, Juneteenth.

This makes 44 paid days off for the average federal employee annually, which is nearly nine full weeks of paid-time off each year.

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I should have worked for the feds.

[dunfree]

Yep. I take everything they let me keep.
And they have taken way more over my lifetime. It’s a partial refund.

People in section 8 apts on disability and Medicaid say that too


my only complaint with it is the calendar location. Our holidays are too clustered. Veterans Day/thanksgiving Christmas/new year/mlk/presidents day then nada until Memorial Day/Juneteenth/4th of July

[Core Shot]

People in section 8 apts on disability and Medicaid say that too

Yeah. I’m ok if you’re legit disabled.

But they don’t get holiday pay. Shouldn’t they get a little something extra for their day off not working?

[PNWbrit]

Yep. I take everything they let me keep.
And they have taken way more over my lifetime. It’s a partial refund.

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With the stroke of his pen Thursday, President Joe Biden signed legislation giving millions of federal employees Friday off to celebrate Saturday’s new federal holiday, Juneteenth.

This makes 44 paid days off for the average federal employee annually, which is nearly nine full weeks of paid-time off each year.

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I should have worked for the feds.

That stat smells like you pulled it out of your ass.

[schuss]

Yep. I take everything they let me keep.
And they have taken way more over my lifetime. It’s a partial refund.

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With the stroke of his pen Thursday, President Joe Biden signed legislation giving millions of federal employees Friday off to celebrate Saturday’s new federal holiday, Juneteenth.

This makes 44 paid days off for the average federal employee annually, which is nearly nine full weeks of paid-time off each year.

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I should have worked for the feds.

Didn't you work in the defense industry? Funny how you're ok with billing the feds yet complain when anyone else gets benefit.
They name streets after you.

[The SnowShow]

Isn’t Juneteenth the day of the annual summer migration of Texas to CO?

[AdironRider]

I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than to give people a day off to party

[TBS]

How is the adoption on Juneteenth where you are?

It's become an official holiday at my company, starting two years ago. My GF's company has also started recognizing a Juneteenth holiday as of this year.

My Single Member LLC recognizes the holiday. Ms TBS works for our village’s newspaper, and The News Doesn’t Take Holidays.

My mom's family was emancipated in Jamaica in the 1830s. There's a story in her family about an already freed slave falling in love with a slave and buying her freedom. My uncle has the legal documents and letters between the two which have been passed down through generations. Both slaves in the story were from second families, meaning they were the children of plantation owners that were married to white women, but had a second family on the side with a slave woman. The children of these second families would often be educated and could read and write but kept their slave status.

The history is pretty terrible, but I feel at least somewhat lucky to know part of my family's story.

One of my Great-great-grandmothers was a slave in Barbados. She met and ended up marrying an indentured servant from Ireland. He stayed after his contract was up, working for wages to buy her. They then emigrated to a Quaker colony in Canada approx 1820.

One of their descendants gave birth to my father in the 1920s South. He grew up quite the racist.

When Ms TBS was doing genealogy research on my family, she discovered this story of colorblind love in difficult times.

My brother and I played rock/paper/scissors -best three out of five - for the right to tell dad. I won

After that, whenever dad, my brother and I would get together, bro and I would always find a time to sing out “Say it Loud!. I’m Black and I’m Proud!” in front of dad. He would just mumble.

[Peruvian]

Holy fuck, TBS, that’s hilarious!

Oh and federal employees make approx 23% less than they would in the private sector. There are 11 paid federal holidays so if private sector employees aren’t getting 2 of them, than it makes sense.

[Core Shot]

Didn't you work in the defense industry? Funny how you're ok with billing the feds yet complain when anyone else gets benefit.
They name streets after you.

Nope. Chicago shitty hall is my only gubmint gig.

It taught me a lot.

This paid day off is the least of our spending problems.
$600,000,000 a year.

$3,000,000,000,000 stimulus. Three times in two years.
$50,000,000,000 for Ukraine

Money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Inflation? Bah.

[mb6f50]

My company runs 359 days a year but they gave everyone an extra "floating holiday" to represent juneteeth.

I think it would be a rad display of respect to make it a full on holiday like Christmas or 4th of July where most businesses actually close.

I actually think we should do more to thank the decendents of slaves for their ancestors contributions to our country.

Do you think the great U S of A would be what it is today without all the free, then extremely cheap labor that was stolen from Africans?

[SumJongGuy]

What a bunch of entitled communist socialist millennials and boomers or whatever.

I wish we had a flat tax so you baristas could contribute some taxes to the federal feed trough.

Juneteenth is fine by me.
I just don’t want to pay for it.

Juneteenth is my birthday so thank you! It's also a paid holiday at my private employer + a paid day off for birthday. I'm sitting in a condo at Carolina Beach right now through Tuesday, 500 feet from the beach.

TAKE A LAP BEATERS LOLOLOLOL!

[Peruvian]

Nope. Chicago shitty hall is my only gubmint gig.

It taught me a lot.

This paid day off is the least of our spending problems.
$600,000,000 a year.

$3,000,000,000,000 stimulus. Three times in two years.
$50,000,000,000 for Ukraine

Money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Inflation? Bah.

Yeah - Government bailouts never work.

[old_newguy]

I still don’t understand why it wasn’t Election Day that was added. The whole country should pretty much shut down for that IMO.

Americans don’t take enough time off anyways.

[Mustonen]

This is the first year it’s a fed holiday, which makes sense that workplaces are recognizing it for the first time. My workplace closes on fed holidays, and we don’t close when it isn’t a fed holiday. We used to hem and haw and equivocate over every holiday, which is why I pushed for this to keep things simple. Way better, nobody overthinks it. The bigoted assholes can point to the federal government if anybody questions a closing on MLK day or Juneteenth.

[J. Barron DeJong]

I still don’t understand why it wasn’t Election Day that was added. The whole country should pretty much shut down for that IMO.

Americans don’t take enough time off anyways.

[Core Shot]

They could have traded it for Columbus Day.

These lazy bastards don’t need another day.

Celebrating end of slavery makes more sense than celebrating a fool searching for spice trade that found another continent

[altacoup]

I still don’t understand why it wasn’t Election Day that was added. The whole country should pretty much shut down for that IMO.

Americans don’t take enough time off anyways.

Election Day should be a federal holiday. The GQP would lose their minds if Biden did that.

[old_newguy]

well yeah, but it sure seems like if we are only going to do one that in the context of the moment it would seem like Election Day would be the one.

[SumJongGuy]

I still don’t understand why it wasn’t Election Day that was added. The whole country should pretty much shut down for that IMO.

Americans don’t take enough time off anyways.

The people who have the biggest obstacles to getting to the polls would still not be off on election day... But everyone else who probably already voted early would be off leaving the poor and minority heavily marginalized to carry an even heavier load on Election day making them having to work even longer hours and less likely to get to vote..

[schuss]

Nope. Chicago shitty hall is my only gubmint gig.

It taught me a lot.

This paid day off is the least of our spending problems.
$600,000,000 a year.

$3,000,000,000,000 stimulus. Three times in two years.
$50,000,000,000 for Ukraine

Money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Inflation? Bah.

If we repeal bush and trump high end tax cuts that saves us like a trillion. Could always do that. They have a gdp multiplier of less than 1, all they do is run up rich person score.