The gov. shutdown spotlights a bigger issue: 78% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck

[wiffleball 4,640]

Go to the bank and get a loan. Crazy, right?

Hey baby sitter, my credit sucks. could you go to the bank and get a loan to pay yourself to watch my kids because I quit my job? I promise I'll pay you back! Interest? No that's not in your contract.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,650]

Hey baby sitter, my credit sucks. could you go to the bank and get a loan to pay yourself to watch my kids because I quit my job? I promise I'll pay you back! Interest? No that's not in your contract.

Your credit sucks and you haven't missed a paycheck in years? That's on you hombre.

[wiffleball 4,640]

Your credit sucks and you haven't missed a paycheck in years? That's on you hombre.

Keep up. That's the gov.

[vuduchile 1,941]

So honest to God, you have a choice between a job to pay 60 Grand and 85 Grand. Obviously you go for 85 Grand. And then six months into it, your new employer says well gosh we can't get our ###### together, we're going to have to furlough you. Think of it as a vacation!

 

you took the 85 because that's what it took to feed your family and pay your bills. What? You're expecting them to send a thank you card to incompetent management?

 

Have you ever had your hours cut? Did you ###### celebrate?

 

God, the worst part? I can't believe this is a ###### conversation.

 

These guys were given the option of taking voluntary time off without pay? Yeah, ###### them. That's not what this is.

Many govt agencies are bloated and inefficient. By extension, so are many of the people effected.

 

Its not financially convenient, but I cant support paying these folks back pay for not working when so many of them shouldnt be there in the first place.

[tanatastic 2,061]

Open season for terrorists to fly in now that TSA is either not working or not caring cuz they arent getting paid.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,650]

Open season for terrorists to fly in now that TSA is either not working or not caring cuz they arent getting paid.

Fly in from where?

[Strike 3,979]

Open season for terrorists to fly in now that TSA is either not working or not caring cuz they arent getting paid.

 

Because the TSA is effective?

[tanatastic 2,061]

Fly in from where?

Places? Other places in the world?

[Hardcore troubadour 12,650]

Places? Other places in the world?

TSA doesn't operate in other places. HTH.