I know you don't but that's pretty pathetic. People have bills to pay. If this drags on, the media will just play more personal stories on the actual affects this is having on families.
Thats what saving for a rainy day means and using credit cards temporarily. You are self employed and surely experienced having to cut back with a change in spending when things are slow.
Govt employees stories in NYT complaining they can’t eat out at a restaurant is pathetic.
Boo hoo. Go to work at Walmart or Burger king, get real jobs. Nice excuses and if they compared themselves to how the rest if the world lives, on rice and beans, riding the bus and smiling, they would get a grip. Americans are spoiled.
“paralegal for the Justice Department in Texas stopped using her “gas-guzzling” pickup truck and pulled her motorcycle out of storage.”
“We had to talk to our day care and say, ‘We can’t pay you this week,’” Mr. Blankley said. “I know how much it sucks.”
And Clinton admin happened. BFD.
“The longest shutdown, which lasted 21 days, started in December 1995, as Republicans in Congress and President Bill Clinton could not agree on a long-term budget agreement. About 284,000 federal employees were furloughed and an additional 475,000 worked without pay,
according to the Congressional Research Service.”
