re: #85 dog philosopher

as an informed estimate i like it - as of now tho there doesn’t seem to be anything motivating the baggers to do anything except try to shift the blame and/or deride the shutdown as a ‘slimdown’

Least Essential? Some agencies have 0 employees on job during slimdown

7 not-so-essential things still operating during slimdown

Reports of property owners kicked off federal land amid slimdown

I note that while the Faux crowd are loving the current situation, there’s nobody on Capital Hill talking too loudly about doing too much with these “non-essentials.” Perhaps because, behind the scenes, even they’re quietly recalling these “non-essentials” back to work. Case in point, my old man was dubbed “non-essential” before this whole mess began and was furloughed at the beginning of the shutdown. He works in the engine shop at the Coast Guard station in Elizabeth City, which as of Friday had zero people working. He just got the call to come back to work today.

These nimrods have no clue as to who’s been dubbed “non-essential,” they’re simply numbers on a paper that are meaningless without context. Most of us would probably agree that things like maintenance and cleaning would be essential functions, but those are also the people who most likely got told to stay home.