Conservatives are rallying behind a plan that calls for a pair of staggered, short-term stopgap funding measures to put pressure on the Senate to pass its own spending bills.
And they should just use their boostraps to pull themselves up? Also shave their head, grow a beard, and hit the gym?
Yes. Everyone should have savings they can live off of for an extended period of time. Not everyone has that luxury between cost of living, low salary, or just emergencies that drain those savings.
So maybe we can avoid the “it is their own fault if they are inconvenienced” stupidity and acknowledge that a government shut down is bad?
Sadly it would be unpaid. Except for Congress of course. They would still get fat checks for failure.
And folk like TSA and ATC have to work regardless.
Doing a lot of travel in a few weeks. Planned ahead with some massive (3 or 4 hour) connections but… yeah.
The VA is the largest healthcare provider in America…
If there’s a shutdown, they all have to keep working and none of them get paid till after the shutdown.
And to get them all paid, other federal workers need to do a bunch of overtime to get it done ASAP.
So it costs even more to pay them what they should have been paid.
It’s disappointing to see so many people act like this is somehow a positive for anyone.
Federal employees will get paid, but it might be delayed.
Which doesn’t help if they are burning through their savings and still need to pay for food and rent.
Any government employee should know to have a govt shutdown plan in place. It’s becoming common.
And they should just use their boostraps to pull themselves up? Also shave their head, grow a beard, and hit the gym?
Yes. Everyone should have savings they can live off of for an extended period of time. Not everyone has that luxury between cost of living, low salary, or just emergencies that drain those savings.
So maybe we can avoid the “it is their own fault if they are inconvenienced” stupidity and acknowledge that a government shut down is bad?
Given present politics, I see asses like Gaetz, MTG and Boebert in the House and Tuberville in the Senate, being fine with not paying our bills.