You’re correct. I live in an area with a significant amount of Government employees. The only thing we’ve noticed is that the stores seem to be busier.
I suspect that the vast majority of Americans even think of the Federal Government no more than a few times a year and their only actual interaction is on April 15.
As someone who has had two six month stints of unemployment after being laid off permanently, (one necessitating a 600 mile relocation and eight month family separation) my sympathy meter is pegged at zero.
No one said a word about all the coal workers that lost their jobs, lost their livihoods. They were told go home and die because coal is not coming back.
Not sure if I ever saw a story about the hard luck of possibly a million coal miners and the loss of their jobs forever, thanks to Obama's EPA and HRC saying, "I am going to put all the coal workers out of business!"