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One Day Off and rotation starting from the TOP DOWN.

One Day Off or Furlough for one day starting from the top down to military and civilians.

This idea would save the Government and the U.S.A. Nation funds on a yearly basis. The idea is spreading the furlough to all Government and Military but NOT at the SAME TIME. For God sake what is this government Idea on FURLOUGH EVERY ONE AT THE SAME TIME. I am putting this on bullets for simplicity, so the idea can be escalated accordingly and steps can be added or removed.

1- Spread the furlough to Government employees and military to only one DAY (a day off without pay) but distributing the load to different employees at different time frame (not all at the same time.)

2- Starting from the President down to the Vice-President, Congressman, Senate everybody would received a day off without pay.

3- On the other hand, the same for all Military branches, starting from the top down, one day off without pay for generals, commanders, officers, and enlisted. Everyone will take it but not at the same time.

4- PAY Roll has to be set up to accommodate for this day off ensuring the day is not pay accordingly to the proposal. And not like few years ago when EVERYONE was off and EVERYONE still received payment for the days off. A nice free vacation with payment included.

5- We all need to remember, even if the president does not receive pay for one day, he is still the president with decision to make on HIS DAY OFF. And same thing with every military commander, pretty much they all giving a day off without pay but their executive officer or next in the change of command will be incharged.

6- There is always a backup plan when 25 or 50% of an outfit organization is off duty, the other 50% takes over and performs the function of the office. As the norm when a supervisor is off the next level supervisor takes charge until current supervisor comes back.

7- Do this for one year, equally shared to all branches of the government and military. Analyze the cost saving and if it works and does not hurt anyone, make it a proposal and mandate to future years.

8- This also can be implemented to States Government hierarchy.

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Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  1. Community Member

    The President can't EVER have a day off! The military are paid salary, not by hour. They can't be given a day off or a furlough. They are not hourly employees. That is why it is so annoying that morons who have likely never served a day in uniform in peacetime or war and may have never worked for salary in their lives seem to think you can just assume every job can just have someone skip pay without repercussions to their family's financial situation and to their job's situation. Some people can't be replaced! Some income is essential! Soldier's can't call time out in a combat zone. Do you really think the Taliban will allow your plan to take place? You need to get into contact with reality.

    2 years ago
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  2. Community Member Idea Submitter

    1. The president is the commanding chief, he is responsible 24/7 and on call. The president earns a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 non-taxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment. The most recent raise in salary was approved by Congress and President Bill Clinton in 1999 and went into effect in 2001, Re: http://money.howstuffworks.com/question449.htm ("How much does the U.S. president get paid?".) and http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/98-53.pdf (Salaries of Federal Officials: A Fact Sheet. ) CONGRESS can adjust his salary; he would still work making 5 or 10K less – a cut from his original 569,000.

    2. Military can be adjusted, to a day or a week off (without pay) of NON-DEPLOYED soldiers. Soldiers on War Zone would stay working and receiving payment.... HOW MANY of the MILITARY are ON WAR ZONE? 25 or 40%, then the rest of them should stop from getting pay for one day. Even they are not on hourly salary but it came be computed to hours if you could to align it with the different ranking… Not to mention, instead of raising the yearly salary to 3% more, cut the increase to only .5 or 1% instead (Military deserve the yearly raise)….. There are always people or morons like the above comments that sticks to a square box mentality….. Life continues….

    2 years ago
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  3. Community Member

    It would be a fairly simple matter, although not a popular one, to require each person to take one day of administrative leave. The savings would only amount to approximately 1/312 (0.32%) of overall earnings, but overall spending on personnel is somewhere in the neighborhood of $457 billion/year including benefits. Once you adjust downward to exclude deployed military and exclude benefits from the reduction for everyone, it's still possible that the savings could be close to $1 billion. The question would be whether it would be worth the morale damage to save $1 billion in a $3.5 trillion budget.

    2 years ago
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  4. Community Member

    The other side of the coin is people make the assumption is the work that is done by the employees, civilian and military is somehow done by someone-else in the organization. If that was possible on a routine basis, too many people are working there and the savings should be done insetad by shifting people to more productive positions. In my Agency, we get behind if we don't have overtime, customers don't receive their payments and underpayments. I've seen people in our office come in sick as a dog to get just one more case done before their doctor's appointment. About the only time management objects is if you have something contagious, (cold, virus)or if if you leave the ER to go to work without written permission. I did the later once, I had four claims that had been sitting for two days while we were on the phone instead of doing desk work. January is our busiest month. Furloughs in the mid-1990s put us behind and left us behind for months on workloads. The Agency wound up using overtime to make up for the lost days. So, we're paying people extra money to make up for lost days. Cost/benefit anaylysis. When people are not at work, they are not getting work done. Sounds simple but that point was missed here.

    2 years ago
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  5. Community Member

    Just fire all and don't have a government

    2 years ago
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