[TheRealThing]

Your choices in the matter if you're one of the 800,000......

1.) call your congressman and demand a compromise.

2.) find a new job.

3.) STFU

....that is all. Carry on.

You forgot the option where those furloughed government workers stand by the only President since Ronald Reagan to protect first and always, the good of actual Americans. And those Americans in turn, could display a little integrity and see if something good comes from their sacrifice. :Thumbs: But no. Irony would have it's way again as the same guys who gave Reagan fits, members of the Air Traffic Controllers Union, take center stage. This time to call off sick in sufficiently large enough numbers to cause flight delays and concerns over general air safety. Chinless RINO's would take flight over much less, and this was more than enough to do the trick. What a bunch of true Americans.

But there is another and much larger group of citizens being effected by the shutdown, and it was those folk for whom that shutdown was wrought in the first place. And that is none other than those 63 plus million folks that voted for MR Trump. The same 63 million to whom Trump promised to build a wall. So, if you're one of those 63 million, not only do Dems condemn you as being unworthy to be called an American, but you are referred to as one of Trump's 10 toothed base. It gets worse however, far worse. As the direct result of all the contempt for the President and his base, Democrats do not feel they are worthy of representation at the federal level, and Republicans of the RINO order agree with them! Six of these fine Senatorial folk voted with the Dems yesterday on their shutdown package. A package WITHOUT WALL FUNDING. One might ask why those 6 Republican Senators would do such a thing? The answer is IMHO a matter of only two possibilities. First, to some being a US Senator is more a matter of personal prestige and status than a responsibility. And like in high school, some people will do almost anything to be liked. Thus the US Senate is the ultimate 'club.' Second, clever Dems realized they'd never be elected in heavily conservative districts, so they ran as a Republican. But they legislate like a Democrat.

Here's the irony in all of this to me. Dems were supposedly cut to the bone over concerns for 800 thousand federal employees whose pay was affected by shutdown. Yes, the self same 800 thousand whom the DEMS caused to do without pay over border wall funding from the get-go. Oh the lament of it all! But do they care about the opioid epidemic, or the millions of foreigners living off American taxpayers, or the murders, rapes, gangs, robberies, dui's, drug crime, human trafficking etc. etc.? Nope. Anybody other than me find it somewhat absurd that missing what will turn out to be one check, is grievous to the point of suicide, while all the other things mentioned are not worthy of even a mention? Ridiculous doesn't come close to describing it. Not only do Dems not care about those 800 thousand, they do not care about the tens of millions of Americans that voted for President Trump.