Why I'm not attending any pity parties for furloughed federal workers

American Thinker ^ | 01/21/2018 | Thomas Lifson

[LavaDog]

Call me a hard-hearted, mean-spirited conservative if you will, but I am not bleeding from the heart over the plight of most of the furloughed federal workers. While I am certain that some of them have not bothered to accumulate savings, and thus are running out of money with which to pay important bills, the rest of us in the private sector have had to live with the possibility of our incomes being cut off for our entire careers. Moreover, federal employees, especially in the lower ranges of the income scale, make out like bandits compared to the rest of us with the same skills and responsibilities.

[itsahoot]

If you have kids and a mortgage, you just can't miss many checks before you're defaulting on that mortgage and hitting the food bank.

Coal miners were unaffected.

[Snickering Hound]

Service providers do things like Building Maintenance, building management, grounds & Public Works, utilities, and a myriad of other jobs that are infrastructure related to government operations. I know several and they’re stretching it kind of thin right now but they do want a wall.

Yup, knew lots of IT contractors for NASA in Houston once upon a time.

Very interesting and rewarding work until the checks stop coming.

[bgill]