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Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.
The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight. "This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.
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Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports
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The best thing that comes out of Iowa is I-80.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @09:03PM (2 children)
The working class should want the US government to be "shut down". The only people getting tax refunds are those who overpayed their taxes, that is a personal choice that has nothing to do with being "working class".
And the united states is in like 30 states of emergency (most of them for many years), with about half of them allowing the president extra powers over the military. This has nothing to do with trump.
That entire post is wrong in every way.
If you want to help the working class, fight for lower housing/food/fuel prices (ie, price deflation) to match with wages. They have been screwed over because wages have lagged price inflation for a long time, but it was especially extreme recently due to the 2008-2016 ZIRP policy of the federal reserve. That policy was used to prop up the stock market at the expense of the working class.
In short, your reasons are wrong, your understanding of the context is wrong, and your solution is wrong. I couldn't come up with a better way to screw over the working class than what is suggested there. It reminds me of how the early rise of socialism/communism was supported by the wealthy industrialists/bankers, because they knew centralizing power just made it easier for them to control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @01:02AM (1 child)
I feel I should at least attempt a response.
Yep. Trump is absolutely not the cause of all this. That cannot be repeated enough, so go on repeating it. He's just the PT Barnum character we get to see on the lamestream propaganda leading the next two years' hit reality TV show, The Incumbent.
wswswswsws came to the same conclusion.
Your ideas about deflation fail to take into consideration the effect deflation would have on debt at all layers of society from the top to the bottom. But deflation would be a helluva way to get the revolution started.
Everybody I know is aware of this. Did you just find this out or something?
In what way does the ICFI calling for independent rank-and-file committees in opposition to the unions, which are controlled by the wealthy industrialists/bankers, remind you of this?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @02:41AM
So then why is it presented as a "working class" problem? Paraphrasing "The government shutdown is bad (for us) because people wont get their tax refunds" was the first thing quoted.
It doesn't, that one sounds great. It would probably also work out better while the government is "shut down".