Border guards make on average about $65k a year.
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.
Coast Guard enlisted and prison employees are paid much less and are already hitting food banks.
Airport terminals are already closing thanks to TSA workers that get paid $35k have already had to find other work. Entire airports will be closing soon.
But, financially, they know what they signed up for and, over the long run, have it far better than similarly skilled private sector employees.
Easy to be the internet tough guy when you're not affected.
There are numerous options for those furloughed.
Check any bank web site - at the top is asks if you are furloughed and have a mortgage with them. All the institutions get it - people will get paid and make everyone hole. One just has to take advantage of their offers. Money is there to borrow and late payments are tolerated.
TSA reported as did USA Today (liberal) this weekend that lines were generally under 15 minutes with 10% calling in sick. Not awful.
Again, am very sympathetic; but it is not nearly as bad as those in DC would want us to believe.
A late check is better then being dead at the hands of an illegal immigrant and never getting a check again.
Ask the Angel moms. Deaths and injury at the hands of illegal immigrants is not being nearly as hyped as the effects of the shutdown. If you watch MSM, you don’t even know it is out there.
End the shutdown- Democrats just have to agree to what they supported wholeheartedly just 10 years ago - border security. “A wall doesn’t work!” Really? Are we that gullible?
Coal miners were unaffected.