Kirk: I would then say, based on this report, that at a minimum 350,000 federal employees should be removed from the payroll, immediately.

The administration disagrees. With tens of thousands of furloughed workers recalled this week, the number deemed essential and ordered to work without pay is now estimated to be 450,000 — more than half of the 800,000 directly affected by the shutdown.

“Employees told to stay home can get jobless benefits, Labor Department says. But those required to report to work — even if not paid — aren’t eligible”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/furloughed-federal-employees-may-seek-unemployment-labor-department-says-11547651066

I saw a report, probably a lie, or just wrong, that said 800,000 Federal Workers just missed their paycheck. Rush read a report that said, in spite all previous shut downs, no federal worker ever actually lost a paycheck, AND that this “so called” lost paycheck will get Reimbursed.

800,000 federal workers? That is over twice as many people as actually LIVE in the State of Vermont. Leave them on unemployment. Let them do their 13 weeks, loose their unemployment bennies THEN get other jobs!

Sadly, even if that many federal workers go away, at 80k on average per salary that will just barely DENT the ongoing deficit. Might do a lot to drain the swamp though.

Julie Covington –
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
https://youtu.be/adUPdnzCAk8
5:28

I don’t know much about it but our local paper was running fear articles about the shutdown. One of the headlines was that government workers were collecting unemployment. So, I think depending on the state and the job, government workers can get unemployment to help them out.

You’re making 6 figures and $30 is going to break you after missing one paycheck? If that’s truly the case, you deserve the situation you’re in.

After getting her identity stolen she is helpless. “Suddenly, I’m very interested in this problem, which can’t be resolved because the relevant government agencies, including the FTC, are shut down. The cobwebbed IdentityTheft.gov website says, “we will resume normal operations when the government is funded.”

“Bottom line: Someone hacked into my Social Security account and changed my bank routing and checking account numbers to a Green Dot account that was probably created for that purpose. This means the thieves likely have a small book’s worth of information about me, both financial and personal. What might come next, and what should I do?”

Well try a simple search of “what to do when your identity is stolen” and receive the same checklist that the FTC provides you on any of a number of sites. No, we need to make it seem like we are helpless without BIG government to babysit us.

Surely Kathleen Parker knows better and probably even did the search above and found out what do when your identity is stolen. However she does a disservice to anyone who trusts her words and thinks that they are helpless until the government opens up.

Here you go. Skip Step 5: https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit/steps-for-victims-of-identity-fraud.aspx

Kirk: I don’t know what the specific situation is for Coast Guard members, but I must admit that I generally do not have a lot of heart left for sympathy for most government workers. They overall have done terrible jobs for the past few decades, and in every area they have been involved they have actually worked to make things worse, either by intention or incompetence. And as they have done this they have generally been paid about twice what ordinary taxpayers get, with far far far better benefits.

Meanwhile, I have watched numerous friends struggle to find decent jobs in the private sector for the past decade. Often they have had to settle, and have suffered because of it.