For all of the whining and crying about the TSA folks not being paid and all,….
Realize this:
It was only FRIDAY, (last Friday, March 13th) that they didn’t get a paycheck. That was the first time that they missed being paid.
So, up til then it was was just political theater…the long lines, the reports of sick-outs, the whining and crying.
Only NOW are they affected. Only now do they have something to whine about.
Same with every other DHS employee affected by this stupid battle to reign in ICE by withholding funds from other DHS agencies (Which, to be fair, is the only way that Congress has to get a reign on the out of control ICE actions, as ICE and BP are already funded)
But until now all the long lines, the complaining, all the news stories about how terrible the TSA and Coast Guard and the others were having it financially were were just theater….Lies, really.
Trust me, the boots on the ground folks, USCG/TSA that don’t make the big bucks have a right to be worried. They have bills that have to be paid, and not enough money in the bank to do it. I was there in the 70s under Carter, and sweating bullets about ‘how’ I was going to pay my bills and feed myself, much less feed a family! THAT is the part that is being ignored by everybody!
I 100% understand.
My point is that it was only Friday that they missed a paycheck, up til then, things were normal.
Despite what they kept telling us for the past two weeks, no one had missed a paycheck ’til then.
So all the bullshit, the complaining, the “I gotta call in sick because I ain’t getting paid” was a load of crap until Friday.
And have you noticed the minimal news coverage? I travel quite a bit and I listen to AM radio. There seems to be just enough coverage of this event to keep you informed; yet not enough to “lather ya up” about it.
Oh and wasn’t there just recently a similar event….closing the government down; can’t do anything until the demoncrats get what they want, wailing and gnashing of teeth….yada, yada, yada
Seems to me that maybe, just maybe those politicians need to have a come to Jesus moment.