# WWII Memorial shutdown controversy **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 4, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-memorial-shutdown-controversy/670354 "2013-10-04T14:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 141
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-memorial-shutdown-controversy/670354/141 "2013-10-08T00:05:01Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Yes. Congressional salaries are not a matter of appropriated funds. The obligation to pay Congress is a matter of constitutional dimension. Their salary comes from holding the office, as opposed to hours worked or particular job done. A U.S. Representative is his own boss, in a sense: if he wishes to stay in his office watching porn for two years, no one (except two-thirds of the rest of the House) can remove him from office for doing so. > > U.S. Park Police are paid with appropriated funds, and there’s currently a lapse in appropriations. Even excepted employees, who continue to work, don’t get paid until the appropriations resume – although the government does incur an obligation to pay them. > > So it makes perfect sense. > > Your plaintive cry arises from some sort of sense of justice. > > Guess what, cowboy? Ain’t no justice hereabouts. Yes sheriff Bricker, I understand fully that Congress has to get paid due to the constitution. The reason for it even makes sense. But it doesn’t make it any easier for me to swallow the fact that about 400k people are now working without being paid even though they still have to pay their bills. And yuck, yuck about there’s no justice. I bet you are yucking all the way to the bank. I would call you an asshole here, but, GD and all that. I guess it’s ok for you to call me a cowboy though. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-memorial-shutdown-controversy/670354)._