What’s also not mentioned here is government workers will be furloughed. What this means is they go to a 4 day work week, the one day without pay. I work with a civil service worker and he knows what this will do to his paycheck, but he doesn’t know what it will do to his benefits since it will cut him to part time employment. They will find out more next week.
I don’t know about you but I could have sworn Obama and the gang represents the middle class; which all of these civil service workers are. While they get furloughed, congress greedily accepts their pay raise AND goes on vacation. Unconscionable.