What Republicans Are Saying: "Pampered Federal Workers Don't Deserve Anyone's Pity"
The media tries to play up either a false equivalency between Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump or they highlight "moderate" Republicans expressing their "concern" about the plight of government workers even though they continue to support Trump's shutdown.
However, in an editorial that echoes reports of "Senior Trump Official" who was cheering on the shutdown, the Investor's Business Daily, a widely published business publication, posted an Editorial arguing that "Pampered Federal Workers Don't Deserve Anyone's Pity." It is a disgusting read that illustrates what is really going on in the minds of Republicans. They go through the motions of being concerned about Federal Workers, but in the end this is hostage taking with Republicans gleefully ready to start shooting hostages.
Will their be any blow back? Will the Investor's Business Daily even have to apologize? The answer is no as the mainstream media continues to push a false equivalency between Republicans and Democrats, which serves to prolong the shutdown and encourage shutdowns in the future, particularly since Republicans seem to enjoy inflicting pain on workers.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/federal-workers-government-shutdown/
The worst thing about the government shutdown isn't the — minimal — harm it's causing. It's all the misplaced hand-wringing about federal workers, most of whom are overpaid and underworked, and all whom will get their back pay once government reopens.
Keep in mind that the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown have so far missed a grand total of one paycheck, which would have arrived five days ago.
There's no doubt that this is challenging for many workers, particularly those who don't budget their money well. But Congress has already guaranteed they will be made whole once the shutdown ends. This is an inconvenience, not a hardship.
In the meantime, let's remember who we are talking about here. While there are certainly plenty of hardworking, dedicated federal workers, they are, for the most part, incredibly pampered. They get better pay and more generous benefits than private sector workers doing the same things. They work fewer hours. And they have far greater job security.
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I 've seen a couple of them on tee vee saying either it's everybody's fault or the Democrats not willing to talk. Anything but Trump and Mitch.
That's some powerful foolaid. 
far more of an indicator of how far our average American worker's real pay and benefits have fallen, not how well Federal workers are thriving.
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That's one of the most extreme, mean-spirited right-wing articles I've read in a long time, with a strong stench of Libertarianism.
In essence what they're saying is that anyone in the USA that has a secure, good-paying job with good benefits needs to be declared redundant because they're not profiting enough from it. Their motive is quite clear: to add a layer of profit to all public service functions, and to allow Wall Street's thumb deeper into the government pie.
The huge hole in their free-market ideology is that most government tasks cannot executed in the competitive market - they've already tried that shit with the prison system and it's a massive failure.
People that write this dogmatic crap need to be taken out behind the woodshed and then forced to work in something like a chicken processing plant or cleaning motel rooms for a year or two.
Sorry, I needed to rant.......
