[mikec71]

I have been a Federal Employee since I left the Military.

The one thing that bothers me about this whole "Shut Down" or as our office manager has announced it as "The Republicans Lack of a Continuing Budget" is how does this hurt anyone but the Federal Employees?

We were told that we are required to report to work on October 1 no matter what. We were also told that because of the way that things have gone in the past that we will be required to be at work, because hey why should we just sit at home when we will just receive the back pay once the budget is passed.

I want this shutdown to mean something to the country if it does happen, not to just have some idiot shut down the WW2 memorial so that Vets cant see it or something else stupid.

The general public has no idea what all of this means, they just see a monument or park shut down, but the rest of it all keeps going. We will still have offices open to give the public their handouts.

Meanwhile the management staff if our office is pressing for us to donate to the combined federal campaign or to bring in food for their food drive. They should wait and save the food for their employees who might need to eat it when we continue to have to work and not be paid.

And we also found out that they don't want to furlough us because if they did and this thing last they will have to let us apply for unemployment, and that would ruin Barry's numbers for a recovering country!

Ok Now I fell a little better

Thanks