re: #205 HappyWarrior

Precisely. They just see the term “non-essential” and by being blockheads assume “Oh that means we don’t need them for the government to function.” As a child and grandchild of federal employees, I can’t begin to tell you what a load of patronizing right wing bullshit that is by that idiot.

Brings back memories of Newt”s temper tantrum that shut the government down from Thanksgiving 1995 past New Years 1996. For five weeks we had to come to work and NOT get paid. Kids had NO Christmas that year. Yet we still dealt with teabaggers calling us lazy, shiftless, etc.