prettybunnys

We can all likely empathize but when you decide there is a line then where that line is drawn becomes contentious.

Rehabilitate or remove from society but it shouldn’t be about punitive harm imo.

You believe in sheep too, geez you’re a rube!

lol you believe MIT exists

With some serious insider knowledge

. . . Do it

You’re missing the point of what I said and what I posited to the person who responded to me.

I don’t live in either of those areas.

The fact that I’m being picked apart because I’m trying to give some insight as to how “people who make more than you do could be in trouble” because of the government shutdown.

I guess fuck all of those people that I’m advocating for?

Hey my dude I’m not going to answer your trove of questions trying to poke holes in my reality.

Take care of yourself.

I’m lumping the contractors who work adjacent to the gov employees as the same group tbh because I’m seeing them laid off in droves too.

Shutdown means no contract extensions means employees just aren’t there anymore instead of laid off. It’s another method of hurting his opponents.

My salary is below the median where I live.

Could your salaries work in New York City or San Francisco?

I work for my money and use most all of it for the survival of my family. I’m not saving vast quantities and I’m not the problem.

My 5x the USA median salary isn’t the problem. The fact that the median salary is 5x less than mine IS the problem.

I don’t take 16k home a month.

I have a family.

I live in a high cost of living area.

I live below the median income for my area.

You’re just out of touch with my circumstances in the same way I’m out of touch with the circumstances of workers who make minimum wage and similarly struggle.

The point is that I’m made to be the enemy of middle America workers because of this notion that my larger salary makes me a cry baby bitch when in reality it’s the folks who are taking all the money from us who are the cry baby bitches.

Thank you for proving my point

When a 6 figure income has people living pay check to paycheck and that same paycheck would make others live comfy you have a problem.

We have been pitted against each other.

My salary is around 200k and to much of America I’d be considered a crybaby bitch saying how I live paycheck to paycheck and the shutdown might break me.

My plight is closer to the plight of the underemployed worker in middle America who makes a quarter what I make working as many hours or more, their boss can up and fuck them over too on a whim.

If we want the workers in middle America who don’t make near as much as the govt workers or workers on the coasts / in cities do then we have to go out of our way to lift them up too.

Anyways. This shutdown is bullshit and I know of at least 4 projects that have already cost the government in excess of 2 million dollars that are just going to die because the funding is gone and the facility is closed and the product can’t be delivered. Everyone is being laid off, all the knowledge going away.