re: Tell me why I should be okay with the government shutting down.

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I’m also a federal “essential” employee as an air traffic controller with the FAA, and I think this is the narrowest and laziest thinking imaginable. I’m supposed to be fine without getting paid for these weeks and months, but I’m also expected to continue my work in helping to run the busiest airspace in the world? I’m just shocked at the blanket prejudice that’s thrown towards federal employees here. We aren’t all parasites.

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Join the club, buddy. This board has a very opinionated take on federal government employees based on the slimy politicians and their staffers that don't do anything positive while getting rich off taxpayer money, but they don't realize that those people aren't the ones getting the shaft in this situation and they always find a way to pay themselves and their slimiest counterparts.

It's not the top brass at the Pentagon or the woke dipshit aides in the White House, the top people at the FBI and CIA that are effected by a shutdown. It's not the overly lazy and sassy DMV and TSA employees or the corrupt politicians that are hit by a shutdown, it's the average people like the OP - who is simply an air traffic controller with a family and an average person like myself - that just happens to work for our US government because our careers fall under their purview.

It pisses me off to no end that in situations like these, the ones that TRULY need to take the punishment of a shutdown and lack of pay are the last ones to actually suffer. It's all the decent, average, middle class employees of the FedGov that get hit the hardest over the stupidity and childish stubbornness of those slimeballs in DC.