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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsif the shutdown continues for another month...
very bad things are going to happen when people are broke and desperate.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)and the whole country will fail. They can't hire or train new people with no funds to pay them. Putin will win.
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)And they told us ahead of time what the plan is.
Shutter government. Sow chaos. Crash the economy. Empty out agencies of workers. Rule by fiat, shutting out the elected representatives of the people. Find capos to carry out orders. Elevate quislings.
We know (or should know) how this goes.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)MineralMan
(146,190 posts)Be prepared for air travel to be seriously disrupted within another week or so. TSA personnel and ATC personnel will run out of money just to get to work and park at the airport soon. They don't have free parking lots or free gasoline. Even public transit costs money.
For TSA folks, who earn between $!8 and $25 per hour, it's a paycheck to paycheck life. ATC workers are not paid all that much more. When the money runs out so you can't get to work, you'll be absent.
It's a simple equation.
OrlandoDem2
(2,064 posts)Only those who work for something to do or have income from other retirements are showing up.
SharonAnn
(13,766 posts)Then I'm actually paying them so i can work.