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Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure my spouse has salmonella. So, yes.

I am very sorry for your spouse and I hope s/he feels better soon. But this made me laugh to the point of semi-hysterical tears at the situation we are in. I just told DH we are not buying/eating chicken until this is over and only other kinds of meat that we purchase frozen from a couple of specific suppliers we trust. What do you do when society is on the verge of crumbling around you? Laugh? Cry? Both?

Drink.

Though the TTB is shut so no new beer or wine labels will be approved.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure my spouse has salmonella. So, yes.

I am very sorry for your spouse and I hope s/he feels better soon. But this made me laugh to the point of semi-hysterical tears at the situation we are in. I just told DH we are not buying/eating chicken until this is over and only other kinds of meat that we purchase frozen from a couple of specific suppliers we trust. What do you do when society is on the verge of crumbling around you? Laugh? Cry? Both?

I'm a furloughed Fed, DH is DoD and so not furloughed. It has affected us, but we'll get by. I have not personally been affected the way that some people (Head Start recipients etc.) have.

I got sequestered out of my federal contracting job a couple months ago. It stinks.

Double Feds here. I am furloughed while DH is working without pay. I still have to pay my part-time sitter though. She is relying on the income to help pay for college.

My office lost three contractors recently due to sequestration. These were all smart and hard working people. The rest of my office had to pick up their full-time duties, which has been a strain for all.

Many of my neighbors are Feds, and my guess is no one is spending as much these past weeks at local businesses because of the uncertainty.

Just informed my child's sitter that if the shutdown continues to next week that I will keep him home with me until we return to work. She understood and said if I need to run an errand I can send him. So this shutdown has a domino effect.

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Anonymous wrote:Directly affected. Furloughed with federal daycare center closed. While I'm enjoying the time with my kids, our center is run by a small business that may need to lay off staff if the shutdown continues. These people are like family to us and it's breaking my heart.

Are these Fed daycare centers subsidized with taxpayer money or do Fed workers pay market rates for childcare?

Not subsidized. At least not ours. We pay a competitive rate.

Not subsidized in the least, unless $1750 isn't the going rate for infant care, which I think it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Directly affected. Furloughed with federal daycare center closed. While I'm enjoying the time with my kids, our center is run by a small business that may need to lay off staff if the shutdown continues. These people are like family to us and it's breaking my heart.

Are these Fed daycare centers subsidized with taxpayer money or do Fed workers pay market rates for childcare?

Not subsidized. At least not ours. We pay a competitive rate.

Im an exempt employee with a Stay at home husband. Getting paid, but not making unnecessary purchases because the funding for my job will run out soon. My mom lives on SS and I'm her safety net... So watching things, worried knowing I have no control over it.