Devastated by one shutdown, dreading the next
Source: Washington Post
Devastated by one shutdown, dreading the next
By Eli Saslow and
Jabin Botsford February 10 at 8:05 PM
FRESNO, Calif. The federal government had finally called her back to work after 35 days, but now Vicki Ibarra wondered how she could afford to get there. Her used sedan had been repossessed by the bank a few days earlier. The family minivan had a faulty engine and barely any gas. Her Internet had been cut off a month into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, so she used a friends wireless password to log into her bank account. There was $0.38 left in checking and $7.80 in savings, the sum total of 16 years at the IRS.
This is like disappearing into quicksand, she said to her friend, Ernie Delgado. Even once I get back at work, how am I supposed to dig out?
You need to start asking for help, he said.
Who? she said. How? Thats never been me.
Ibarra, 45, had built her adult life on the principle of self-sufficiency raising two children by herself, adopting her teenage niece, devoting her career to a government job because it promised meaningful work and 9-to-5 dependability. The salary was modest at about $35,000 a year, so she often stayed late to work overtime. Even when her credit cards were maxed out, shed been able to make at least the minimum payments. Even if she sometimes needed an extension on her rent, shed spent 25 years in the same two-bedroom house, where a small sign was posted on a bedroom wall: Get up and go get it!
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beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Air Traffic Control nearly and completely shutdown all over america. The air controllers know they have the power to do so....
3Hotdogs
(12,467 posts)There were no safety consequences.
The Orange Asshole would do the same.
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)Secretary of Commerce (and multimillionaire) Wilbur Ross? He said, (mumble words here.....)"I don't see why they don't just go and take out a loan. How much trouble can that be?"
There you go - simple, huh??
WHAT AN ASS!!!!!!!
This whole band of criminals should be taken south and used as the "foundation" for that wall that should never be built!