Name:   architect - Subject:   Maj speak with fork tongue Date:   1/5/2019 12:37:18 PM (updated 1/5/2019 2:03:23 PM)

I did read the article which makes some valid points bisected with a lot of BS.  What Mr. Skypek and some consider non-essential would become essentially essential PDQ if they went away without replacement.  Now if you want to talk about contracting even more jobs to for profit corporations let's have the debate!  Are TSA and the Coast Guard non-essential?  How about CDC and NIH and FDA...shall we hand them off to a firm listed on the Dow?  After all Mr Skypek and Maj, none of them are mentioned in the constitution.  But I digress....

My post in repsonse was not to the article but to the jist of your post as stated in the paragraph below the link...namely ALL furloughed employees will get back pay (with condescension by the Maj...''the poor little darlings will get paid''). My question, who pays the rent/mortgage and power bill and who buys the gas to get the TSA worker to the airport while they are waiting weeks (''months or years''? per Dear Leader) for the back pay? 

All federal workers (furloughed without pay and working without pay) will eventually get their back pay (hope it is before foreclosure)...I agree.  Your statement and my agreement with it does not pay their bills!  Further, there is no guarantee federal contract workers employed by private firms will get paid.  Not a good image to run up the flag-pole if we plan to try to ''privatize'' more ''non-essential'' federal functions!

BTW: The last 2 lines of your initial post is the most eye opening and, shall we say,''informative'' statement in the whole message!