Did you ever think that maybe, perhaps, some of those 800,000 ALREADY KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE GETTING LAID OFF??????
I only get paid $30,000 a year, GROSS, on my federal salary. I net only $20,000 of that. For for 7 years prior to getting on full time I was working part time for over 6 years, while trying to support three kids all by myself! So I know what it's like to live hand to mouth, day to day. Heck, there was a time I even lived in an apartment with no power because I couldn't pay the electric bill.
So choose your words carefully when making blanket statements like that. Some of government employees do not make a whole lot of money and work hard to earn our paychecks.
Your story is typical of private sector employees in today’s economy. So you do get it. There is a problem, though, with the media portraying federal employees mostly as victims. And it will only get worse unless something can be done to prevent Obamacare from taking full effect.
Some may be dealing with cash flow if they live check to check but I thought the level of attention being given to this special class of workers is not right without mentioning the other unemployed. When it suits them they talk about improving unemployment rates e.g. 7.3%....like it’s so good....but they labor over the 800,000 number like they are in a much more dire situation....and no mention of the 15+ million others. If the president and congress were having daily press conferences and showed the same rabid concern for the 15 million others, then things might have been much better for the country a long time ago.