TampaBayAg08 said:
To fund my agency, YOU pay $3. I have worked nights, weekends, holidays - double shifts on Christmas - missed countless important life events because I wanted to protect fellow Americans. I believe in our mission. And if you want to abolish my agency, I can tell you right now private sector will absolutely not do things as well because they'll only "protect" major metro areas... if you can even call it protecting. I'm not asking for empathy on everything I have missed in my career so far because I chose that, my husband chose it. We did it because we love our country that much. It really is disheartening that I've spent 17 years thinking I've put in so much time, passion and effort for my fellow Americans - and we're in this ridiculous situation where we are pawns and having to show up to work and not get paid - and so many people in this thread and on this message board does not care.
I truly empathize with private sector and the layoffs they go through. I did look into private sector when I figured, as a new mother having gone through a C-section and severe pre-eclampsia, that I was going to need to look for new jobs. All my fellow Aggies that went into the private sector said it's unstable, they were also worried about being laid off. That's an awful way to live - being in that kind of limbo. Im not trying to give them special treatment, all I'm doing is acknowledging it's a terrible situation and I hate that for them - even when they're all hard working and also care about what they do.
Every time I come onto this corner of Texags - it's pretty crappy, knowing fellow Aggies are not only having lack of sympathy, but actively rooting for how Aggies and others are being treated. We've lost our way as a society. I've given so much of my career to caring for the safety of all of you with the nature of my jobs, but that doesn't matter. "To fat", as you say.
Talk to your fellow federal employees who overwhelmingly vote Dem.