Discuss how the shutdown will affect your and your friends' lives
I have friends who are non-essential federal employees and they will be furloughed.
I feel sorry for people who were about to finalize FHA mortgages or SBA loans.
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and in near-by communities will be seriously impacted, especially if it goes on for a long time... including me as I have been applying for federal jobs lately.
This is because the staple of income for the majority of the people I know are the millions of acres of public lands surrounding our tiny communities from YNP/TNP to the National Forests that surround them. A large portion of the locals work either for the Park Service or the Forest Service and a little further down the road the BLM. The there are the businesses who are part of the tourist hospitality and (food) service industries who weren't anticipating the closing of the parks for several weeks yet (they do this while the parks are waiting for snow and preparing the roads for oversnow travel). The workers are in trouble too since they will be cut out of five weeks of pay before a six week stint of joblessness until their employers reopen when the arks reopen. This sucks for most of us.
I have been looking for public sector work lately and that is all on hold until these clowns wise up or a change takes place - whichever comes first. Glad the food bank is a state entity!
I think that if this gang of thugs pulls this again in a couple weeks, there might be a general strike of the public with demands they really won't like... like leave our halls of government before we remove you physically Just pondering here but you never know at this point. You can only push a beleaguered people so far...
