re: This is why there is no sympathy for a fedgov shutdown

Private sector jobs and government jobs are completely different. Obama regulations hurt the coal industry, but jobs in Appalachia were hurt for many other reasons.

Coal jobs have been decreasing for decades.

The US has around 140 years of coal on reserve. Coal production west of the Mississippi surpassed coal east of the Mississippi in the mid-90’s. Coal production in Wyoming and surrounding states is much cheaper, easier to mine, more automated, and more environmentally safe. Coal jobs in Appalachia are not going to come back when it can be bought and mined cheaper elsewhere.

Regulations hurt the coal industry, but the Appalachia mining was hurt more by mining elsewhere in the US.

IOUs and vouchers don't qualify as wages. Don't be at all surprised if all air traffic control personnel walk off the job, and air traffic across the land comes to a screeching halt.

I know there's stonewalling by both Congress and the president, but Trump by executive order, if necessary, needs to open up the government. We're really facing a national crisis, even if hasn't reached the stage of national emergency yet.

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Coal jobs have been decreasing for decades

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This is a result of profitability, not EPA or OSHA regulations. The cosl industry in the US has reached a status, for the most part, of phased obsolescence.

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So if you are without a pay check for 3,4,5 weeks, so what? You still have a job when the shutdown ends. It's an inconvenience, yes, but often people learn from it. I will bet that any SMART fedgov worker who is sweating right now, will have savings in the eventuality this happens again in the future.

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Not everyone is just throwing money away all willy-nilly. What about guys trying to get out of debt? You can't effectively save and get out of debt at the same time. You're dividing the troops.

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I say this, and the left is "horrified". Why? Because adults have to experience hardship every now and then? Why is that so terrible?

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Maybe because it's not just adults? You think all of those federal workers don't have kids?

Being overly sympathetic about the situation for federal workers is sickening. Being callous about it is just as bad though. At least SOME of those people try to make good by the job they are in. Yet, some people act like all federal employees are low down dogs, no different than the people that live off food stamps.

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They have inherent advantages being Government employees. They have advantages that people in the private sector don't have. One might even call it privilege.

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And you have inherent advantages working at mc'donalds, you get your free meal and all the old fries you can stomach. Every job has inherent advantages, it's called part of a compensation package. You aren't justifying or even arguing anything, you're just making random arse statements and ending with frick the government, then up voting yourself

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That is what the majority of Americans do. You realize that right?

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And you ignored the rest of my post. Are there enough available jobs for this to be a reasonable suggestion? I dont recall a month where 800k jobs have been added, but I am open to the possibility i am wrong.