I must be more “hard-hearted, mean-spirited” than him because I hope they get RIF’d.
In fact I view them similarly to people that continue to live in California.
The way everyone, Feds and non-feds in DC are reacting is disgusting. I saw no simillar sympathy as whole towns and whole industries were being wiped out thanks to federal regulations. When I would travel beyond the Beltway in ‘09-’12 in particular and see shops boarded up, I would think of parking lots at restaurants in the DC area always full. Always. Shops were busy, few closed (only certain chains). The area was virtually unaffected by what the rest of the country suffered. Feds here seemed not only unaffected, by neither did they seem to care
Federal employees have better than comparable salaries. After a year or two, they should have a decent amount of funds saved up to get through the delay of a paycheck or two. But oh, no ... local supermarkets are setting up ‘food banks’ to give them free food.