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[quote=Anonymous]PP is a troll, I don't buy any of that for a second.

For instance, childcare costs are almost never optional.  For us, we are in a contract for the whole school year already.  I can't just decide not to pay for after care for a day or a week or a month or however long I go without my government pay check.  Most people can't do that.  And if you pull out entirely then someone else on the waitlist gets your spot and you can't get back in to a new contract.  That is true of most daycare situations too.

That is a good example of why this is a hardship for federal employees.  Our expenses are based on our income, we have done nothing wrong with respect to our job performance and many of us have been work extra hard during the sequester as more is expected of fewer staff.  We've done it without complaining and many of us are dedicated to our work.  We are responsible also in our financial planning and savings, and have funds to retirement and college and even for a rainy day.  But we can't stop spending when the income stops, we can't stop the mortgage or child care or innumerable other expenses.  That impacts us very signficantly and very negatively even if we can withstand it.  We don't deserve to bear the brunt of the damage for a disfunctional Congress - who will not bear any burden themselves.  And the ripple effect will injure the country as a whole.  The PP who bragged about saving money by not going to the dry cleaner and not going to get her hair colored.  Well guess what, when hundreds of thousands of federal workers tighten their belts like that then the spending falls in the nation and the economy slows for everyone. The the dry cleaner and the hair dresser don't have income to spend either.  Shut downs cost the government $100 million a day by one estimate last week.

Federal employees understand they have been villified by the current Congress.  Unfairly in my view.  But for their own self interest at least the rest of you should be calling on Congress to fix the problem.

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