As I understand it, those sent home during a shutdown are paid anyway, though not until the funds are approved in the new budget. The essential employees staying on the job will not be paid either until the new budget. The vast majority of people have little contact with the Feds. Entitlement checks still go out to the entitled, so citizens will see little effect in a shutdown.
The bigger gamble of the Left is that a protracted shutdown would encourage Trump to point out how well the government runs without the 90%+ of employees deemed non-essential & therefore accelerate the draining of the swamp with the hearty approval of the voters.
you are right but only if that is voted on in the aftermath. I am suggesting that we have no duty to pay for people not working. One thing that I think I am seeing is that this is going to be a very long shut down caused by the Democrats over Amnesty for illegal aliens and impacting out military readiness. Do they actually think that we are going to blink? That is a knee slapping belly laugh. Just let the people see that it makes no difference to our lives if the non essential government is not necessary!!_PLEEEEZE