Let them eat cake........................

[dudmuck]

True, the Pelosi shutdown is causing some hardship, but she is probably unaware of it while planning the next foreign trip for her and her minions.

oh really

 

[mudwhistle]

Maybe Trump will take 'em all in.......?

~S~

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Putin needs to come in here and take care of the problem Democrats. Bashir Assad would make an excellent interim governor. He protects the Christians in Syria. He could do that here.

 

[Godboy]

I wonder how quickly Pelosi would agree to secure your border from the ongoing illegal invasion, substance smuggling, human trafficking and child abuse, exporting of criminals, if Trump decided to work on closing federal offices in California due to "redundancy" or a lack of need based on the shutdown...

Arrests For Illegal Border Crossings Hit 46-Year Low
December 5, 201711:10 AM ET
Arrests For Illegal Border Crossings Hit 46-Year Low

Thats what happens when you have a president who takes border security seriously. Illegal immigrants fear the wrath of Trump. Isnt it a nice change of pace from previous presidents?

 

[DOTR]

Well, now we are seeing what Trump supporters in high government positions think of the workers. One is saying that the workers are going to be better off after the shutdown, because they got a paid vacation and will have a month's worth of pay saved up.

Trump's top economic adviser says furloughed federal workers might be 'better off' due to free 'vacation days'


Another is asking why are furloughed government workers going to soup kitchens and food pantries to get fed, when they could easily go get a loan.

Wilbur Ross says unpaid federal workers shouldn't need food banks, they can just get a loan

I guess those people don't understand that government workers at the GS-5 pay level or lower (which is a large percentage of them), don't make enough to have lots of money saved up. People at that level are generally living paycheck to paycheck. They aren't raking in a whole bunch of cash.

How much longer is this heartless action by the current admin going to go on?

But it was YOU said Coast Guardsmen didnt need pay because they already live on a ship and have uniforms.

To tell you the truth, if they are single with no children, and live on the ship, they can make it for quite a while without a paycheck. Why? Food and housing are provided on the ship, and they already have uniforms that have been issued.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Well, now we are seeing what Trump supporters in high government positions think of the workers. One is saying that the workers are going to be better off after the shutdown, because they got a paid vacation and will have a month's worth of pay saved up.

Trump's top economic adviser says furloughed federal workers might be 'better off' due to free 'vacation days'


Another is asking why are furloughed government workers going to soup kitchens and food pantries to get fed, when they could easily go get a loan.

Wilbur Ross says unpaid federal workers shouldn't need food banks, they can just get a loan

I guess those people don't understand that government workers at the GS-5 pay level or lower (which is a large percentage of them), don't make enough to have lots of money saved up. People at that level are generally living paycheck to paycheck. They aren't raking in a whole bunch of cash.

How much longer is this heartless action by the current admin going to go on?

But it was YOU said Coast Guardsmen didnt need pay because they already live on a ship and have uniforms.

To tell you the truth, if they are single with no children, and live on the ship, they can make it for quite a while without a paycheck. Why? Food and housing are provided on the ship, and they already have uniforms that have been issued.

Wrong. I said that if they had certain qualifiers (no children, no wife, living on the ship), they could make it for quite a while with no pay, because if they are living on the ship, food and shelter are provided, and their uniforms were already issued.

However..................for quite a few of the people in the Coast Guard at the higher ranks of E-4 and above, most of them are married and have kids. No, they wouldn't be able to keep their families on the ship. Those people are the ones who will have to ask for loans, or go see if they have something like Navy Relief (an organization that helps out active duty Navy personnel when they have problems). Those people need their checks.