Or better yet?
Clean floors FOR your landlord?
This is what happens when dumb assed people put a rich guy in the White House….
The worst?
We taxpayers are paying the guys bills….
One thing of which you can be absolutely sure in this convoluted world is that Donald Trump, American president, does not give a single airborne fuck about you. It doesn’t particularly matter who you are, so long as your last name is something other than Trump. (Soon, even that caveat might be tested.) Any fleeting moment’s thought he gave to you and your well-being and your future almost certainly popped into his head in relation to how you might best serve his interests. All the world may be a stage, but all its people are just various means to various ends.
So it’s gone with the 800,000-odd federal workers who have been furloughed, or are working without pay, thanks to the government shutdown Trump caused single-handedly. Once upon a time, he readily accepted full responsibility for this—until he realized that was a big-old self-own and, inevitably, attempted to shove that televised event down the memory hole. Now, it’s “the Democrat Shutdown,” and he, Donald Trump, is the Brave Man of Principle left “all alone” in the White House this Christmas. “(Poor me)!”
The World’s Most Powerful Man took a break from offering unusual Christmas greetings this holiday season to suggest “many” furloughed federal workers want him to hold out and keep the government shut down until he gets funding for his Big, Beautiful Wall. No serious person believes the wall will halt undocumented immigration or the flow of illegal drugs. It stretches credulity, to say the least, that some significant number of ordinary people are willing to go without pay for weeks at a time—and often have their lives and financial futures pulled to the brink—to help the president build White America’s Giant Middle-Finger to the World.
Trump himself seconded this notion by, one day later, suggesting the same group of people were mostly Democrats:…
Trump Administration tweets out advice to furloughed federal workers who can’t afford to pay their bills. Among the tips: Offer to do painting or carpentry for your landlord in lieu of rent.
The 800,000 federal employees the Trump administration is advising to pick up odd jobs for their landlords to pay the rent while they’re on furlough because of Trump’s shutdown at least have the knowledge that they’ll probably get their back pay when it’s over. That’s not the case for the thousands of contract workers whose jobs are also on ice because of Trump. They have no guarantee that the lost weeks of pay will be made up….
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Transportation Security Administration employees, who are staffing airports at one of the busiest travel times of the year, are dealing with low morale, frustration at Washington and uncertainty over how they’ll pay rent or feed their families if the government shutdown drags on.
The shutdown is making the already stressful task of securing airports over the holidays even more difficult and demoralizing, TSA officers told HuffPost, all on the condition of anonymity, fearing repercussions at their jobs.
Although Trump has said that federal workers want him to hold out in shutdown negotiations until he gets his way, the TSA employees who talked with HuffPost had a very different message.
“While Congress and Mr. Trump get to stay home, enjoy their personal time with their families, and still get paid, we have to struggle and suffer,” a Transportation Security Officer told HuffPost in an email. The officer, a single mother, now worries how she’ll take care of her kids if the shutdown drags on.
“Most of us live paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford to be unpaid and still go to work for long. It is not fair,” she said.
A prolonged shutdown could mean missed rent or mortgage payments, no gas money to get to airports and pressure to look for a new job or take on extra work, TSA employees said. The fact this is the third shutdown in under a year adds to the frustration. Several workers criticized the government for playing politics with people’s lives…..
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