Point taken. And having been here for 6+ years I guess I should know better.
Oh, on re-reading it more closely, it is clearly sarcasm (with the repeated TEN TIMES - that ought to have been a dead giveaway). At the same time, there are FReepers who are federal employees or contractors and it would be natural to see someone grousing about losing a paycheck, so there’s a bias to assume someone is being serious about that.