Government Shutdown

[DHBirr]

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce is as clueless and/or malevolent as his president.

In his television interview, Ross repeatedly stressed that federal workers should simply take out loans to cover their expenses while the government was shut down. He acknowledged they would have to likely pay some interest, but he said it should help them cover costs.

So because the government isn't fulfilling its obligation to pay those who work for it, he recommends those workers should go into debt?  Am I understanding this correctly?  Assuming they ever received their rightful pay, they'd still owe interest on money that should've been theirs all along.

Oh, and you gotta love his concern for them:

“If they never got their pay — which is not the case, they will eventually get it, but if they never got it, you’re talking about a third of a percent on our economy,” Ross said. “So it’s not like it’s a gigantic number overall.”

It's not a big deal that hundreds of thousands of families may be impoverished, bankrupted.  I'm so reassured.

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Il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un roi pour décourager les autres.  (It is good to kill a king from time to time to discourage the others.)
— paraphrased from Voltaire.  Merci, M’sieur Arouet.