Posted on 12/24/2018 1:42:18 PM PST by Sub-Driver
#ShutdownStories hashtag takes off as Twitter users share how government closure affects them
By Avery Anapol - 12/24/18 04:16 PM EST
Hundreds of people took to Twitter on Sunday and Monday to share how the government shutdown is affecting them.
Using the hashtag #ShutdownStories, posts from furloughed government workers, their family members and many others accumulated thousands of retweets and favorites in just hours.
The trend appeared to be started by Twitter user @TeaPainUSA, who tweeted to their 418,000 followers a plea to share a tweet using the hashtag.
Many respondents said that they lived paycheck to paycheck, and with the government shutdown were worried about mortgage payments or medical expenses.
One woman using the #ShutdownStories hashtag wrote that her husband works as a park ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and that the couple has a 4-year-old and a 4-month-old. She expressed concern that they would not be able to cover holiday expenses or mortgage payments.
We had a baby two months ago (10/24/18); I have been on unpaid leave since then. Husband works with USFS, is our primary earner. Without his income, I don’t know what we will do. We have enough in savings to cover the mortgage in January, but beyond that... ♀️#ShutdownStories pic.twitter.com/2EV4qAXC0C — Little Sarah (@theSarawithanH) December 24, 2018
Another wrote that she “was too sick to work most of the month,” and was relying on a paycheck to cover a car payment.
“Thank you, Mr. President,” she wrote.
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Is there a “teary” meme at the top of the twitters? Or is it tweets.
Can we build a wall and put these whiners on the OTHER side of it?
Thanks! ;)
Federal Government should not be a jobs program. There should be a culling of government workers. Many “agencies” should be shut down for good.
That may be President Trumps plan with this shutdown.
Yeah, I’m dreaming.
I saw two dogs today barking at each other..If I could have translated the barks I swear they were complaining about the shutdown
Bureaucrats having a boo-hoo.
Cry me a few rivers and then drop dead.
The time of the wun I barely survived. Lots of opportunities for all kinds of things now for us peasants. I’m so proud of orange man. Orange man really good.
A goodly portion of people live paycheck to paycheck for all kinds of reasons. One of those is paying confiscatory taxes to support the entrenched crybabies.
Where’s the Boo-Hoo Girl when you need her?
What shutdown?
It makes me happy. That’s how it affects me.
They can file for unemployment.
I guess there could be a lot of problems with an unplanned paid vacation.
I was gonna say.......because of the weekend and Christmas the shutdown doesn’t even start til Wednesday. Sheesh
Because of the shutdown, I can’t get my gubmint cheese and the surveillance van no longer idles in order to save gas.
I LOL’d when somebody told me they saw “FBI Surveillance Van 1” on the wireless list. I told them that’s a very, very old joke.
It’s funny, though.
LIKE! Thumbs up!
A huge percentage of these are coming out of Obama’s house.
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