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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Especially if you make barely enough to cover the bare minimum. I am honestly disgusted by people online and in real life saying that govt employees (and everyone) should have 3-6 mons of expenses saved. That's mighty hard seeing as a lot of people live check to check. If I can barely make it to payday, where is the "savings" money coming from? We don't all have surplus funds at the end of the month to put away. And 6 months of expenses? That's a lot of money when most people don't even have $1000 for an emergency.

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OP. I feel exactly the same way. It makes me sick and I’ve been trying to process it. The best I can figure is that there is a serious lack of empathy and a surplus of smugness. They also miss the point that some people earn just enough to cover BASIC expenses, some are bad with money due to mental health issues, others have  medical bills and debt. And even if someone was just plain stupid and overspent all the time - should we use this shutdown to shame them and teach them a lesson? Make sure they are homeless and starving...they will definitely learn to save next time, right? I got a sense of it before, but it’s become more real now that our family is affected by the shutdown. DH is a contractor. The comments from people like the Commerce Secretary and Lara Trump suck. But when you get those same comments from family and friends - it’s plain hurtful. [/quote]

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