This is the TRUE definition of a Manufactured CRISIS ! Federal employees who have experienced a prior shutdown are well versed in how to claim available benefits. The media know this also but not a word about it. Federal employees who are eligible can apply for unemployment benefits on or after the first day of their furlough.
I just read: A furloughed federal employee’s guide to filing for unemployment during the shutdown
By Nicole Ogrysko
“Federal workers”?
Workers?
Live and work in Montgomery county right next to DC.
Everybody I know that has a government job has a rainy day government shutdown fund.
I have little sympathy for employees who are too stupid to have figured out that this WILL happen during their employment.
What, they couldn’t leave a little something in the bank? I took four paychecks and two mileage checks into the bank, and the teller looked at me with love in her eyes...
No sympathy from me or my neighbors-starting 8 years ago, thanks to the Obama economy snowbirds didn’t have the money to Winter here in this rural area any more, putting some of us out of business and trashing all our incomes. We were told by the fed to suck it up-now, we are starting to make money again thanks to pres Trump-so the spoiled fedzilla workers can just take their turn at not being able to afford gas or pay bills-just let that karma bite them in the ass-schadenfreude...
But they’ll get backpay for not working. That’s not right.
I heard some strange discussion from NPR (National Public Radio) today. The Democrats doing the talking weren’t complaining much about President Trump. They were complaining about the Democrats in the House refusing to make a deal with him on the funding for the border barriers.
I suspect, by the way, that a few rich donors are behind the House Democrat stubbornness against the wall.
Yep - it was Obama’s goal to make all zeros a permanent state for the paychecks of a lot of energy producers....he boasted about it.
And what will they do if we don’t pay them? Vote Democrat? They already do, so you see there are no consequences to ignoring their plight. They reap what they sow.
Local news here in Chicago had some local EPA guy on complaining, like his kiester is critical to the environment or something, LOL. You are not missed, fella.
They ALL knew this was coming..........and warned to prepare for.
So far the longest Federal Government Shutdown in the History of our Country (OMG) has so far resulted in ONE MISSED PAYCHECK, never mind the fact that every Federal Employee will be paid any Monies owed to them as soon as the Shutdown ends.
The Media, the Union and the DNC whining for weeks with every sob story in the world while nobody was financially impacted until yesterday. Pure Propaganda.
They have perks beyond belief and if they've been living beyond their means and not saving for a rainy day, screw 'em.
My dad was a blue collar factory worker and my mom was a housewife. We didn't have much, but we were always prepared for shut downs, strikes, lay-offs, whatever. We got by.
Welcome to the real world, gub'mint employees!