I think politicians shouldn't be paid during a shutdown
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Not American, so i must be missing something. It feels very weird watching all the news of federal employees queueing up at food banks after missing a month's pay. isnt this something that everyone knew is highly likely to happen, given the political context, months in advance? Even disregarding the general recommendations of always having a couple months' worth of expenses in a savings account, what happened to just planning ahead for a very expected disruption in income?
In America, government employees include tons of DEI hires, who aren't exactly known for their long term planning ability.
Seriously, Covid era wasn't more than a handful of years ago, people should still remember that it SCREWED everyone with the shutdown orders for no reason. Everyone should have a rainy year fund put aside, as soon as practical to do so.
But government employees I guess thought the gravy train was infinite and unceasing?