'What's free?', 'I hope they budgeted': how the shutdown affects a small rural town
As federal workers in Jesup, Georgia, fret over the shutdown, many non-federal workers, for now, say the shutdown remains at a distance or not even heard of it at all
A pile of menus sat, untouched, at a table filled with Jesup Federal Correctional Institution employees at Alec’s Sports Bar. A waitress, who wandered over occasionally to fill a round of water glasses lined with lemon wedges, seemed to intuitively know not to ask if anyone needs a soft drink or a plate of chicken fingers.
“I’m not usually a water drinker,” Hannah Gariepy, a teacher – and eight-year employee – of the federal prison pointed out, “But I was thinking, what’s free?” Her colleagues erupted in laughter, all of them agreeing. One has a salad in her car. Another ate before coming to the bar.
Jesup in southern Georgia feels like an archetypical blueprint of a small American southern town, dotted with a Dollar Store and a Piggly Wiggly grocery store. Everyone knows everyone, the same few family names have shuffled in and out of local politics, and most days, its clean streets look deserted.
But now this sense of desertion is different. For Jesup, like many other communities across America, is in the grip of a partial government shutdown affecting 800,000 American workers. And Jesup will feel the hit eventually as a large chunk of its economy relies on the federal prison – one of the town’s major employers.
In one of the town’s bars, colleagues from the federal prison – which employs more than 300 people in Jesup and the surrounding Wayne county – fretted over cancelled doctor’s visits and now impossible requests from children to buy video games. These workers are all now working without pay.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/17/whats-free-i-hope-they-budgeted-how-the-shutdown-affects-a-small-rural-town
So this 1st Congressional District ( Wayne County) location is being represented by Buddy Carter and these people voted 57% to put this asshole in Congress and now if you go to his web site, he isn't going to take one cent of his pay but he is blaming the democrats for not budging on the wall.................
Hey asshole, where is the senate republican leader in your parties senate majority...................he kinda left town or he's sitting on a some private toilet and not bring forth his own bill that passed 98-2
And here is Buddy Carters voting record.............................
https://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/32085/buddy-carter/
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough......................
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