Why are people out of work on government shutdown?

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  • Bro they need to use their savings. They keep complaining saying theyll go broke..load of bollocks if you ask me

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    • So what savings do you have and how long would they last if your salary vanished? Many people don't actually have savings and live from paycheck to paycheck, but I guess someone in your obviously privileged position wouldn't even think of that, would you?

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      • Privilege? It's called work and it has some outcomes. You work so you get benefits. You don't work so you don't get benefits. It's THAT simple. Want to help others in need? Do it yourself. We should not be forced to contribute to parasites.

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        • I don't know what country you're in, but in Australia there figures are about 4 times the number of unemployed as there are available jobs, and that doesn't include people in part time or casual work who'd like to be working full time.

          It was your attitude I was referring to as coming from privilege and how do you suggest "parasites" who can't find work support themselves? Crime? Suicide? Extermination by the privileged?

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          • You said: "how do you suggest parasites support themselves?" and then give the choices: "crime, suicide, extermination" while these are not solutions for self-support. I can smell your hypocrisy and how you struggle to make me look like a terrible person. Therefore, I won't expose my thoughts on this since you already prove you just want to set me up.

            I am not even "privileged", I am a poor white male coming from a very poor family and totally dysfunctional background. But you are too brainwashed to understand these things. To you, everything you don't agree with is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, aerophobic or Nazi. Everybody you don't agree with is Hitler's youth. Very democratic and modern and civilized. All leftist garbage.

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    • Bollocks, so you’re a Brit I assume?

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      • And first government has been shut down since 22 of December

        And that isn’t just people that work in the government.

        Those are all federal employees. Park rangers, IRS workers, food inspectors, etc

        And not all of them are going to make the lost wages back retroactively once the government is funded

        And your tone speaks to the fact you never had the enjoyment of unemployment, never saw how fast your savings drains when you you have nothing coming in but the bills don’t stop

        Some people may not be paycheck to paycheck, but most regular people are not far from it

        Remember these are peoples lives, families, their children’s future, medical bills all at ransom cause of childish politics

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        • Try to remember statistics about people aren’t faceless numbers. They are real people effected by a shutdown with no potential end in sight

          Since neither side is currently willing to budge

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          • I'm guessing the idiots causing this mess still get paid? Not that they would have to scrimp and save if they didn't...

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            • You know it. If the people who caused the shutdown were NOT going to get paid during said shut down, you can bet your last dollar they would resolve things the same day.

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      • No, Australian. And I didn't write anything that was bollocks.

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        • He wasn't. Replying. To you.

          If the comment is to you, you will get a notification. He was talking to the OP. He has not said a damn thing to you.

          Fuck, you're a retard. Every fucking week...how many times have you had this explained to you, and you still don't get it?

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          • 😂😂😂

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          • What are you on about? Remembered your nasty pills today, right?

            I do not get notifications when people respond to my posts and it's NEVER been explained to me at all, let alone every fucking week.

            I do know how to block someone's posts though, and I've just done it to yours. First time for everything, but I really can't be bothered with your nonsense any longer.

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            • Ellenna, sweetheart, you have to go to MENU, then click NOTICES. The IIN webpage has a different versions for both mobile devices and desktop computers. I'm sorry the Mel doesn't realize that.

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