Workers need Senate to vote

SEN. MITCH McConnell (needs to) do three things:

1. Lead the Senate for the people, don’t subordinate it to another branch of the government,

2. Receive the funding bills passed by the House of Representatives, and

3. Allow (the) Senate to vote on the funding to open the government.

(The senator) may not have heard 800,000 federal employees plus additional federal contractors will not receive their salaries. Should each of those employees have a spouse and two children, almost 4 million people will be immediately and adversely impacted. …

(His) state of Kentucky has almost five million people. Imagine all of our federal employees were in that five million. The result would be nearly all of them — fourfifths — would be without jobs. One day, they would have had a good-paying job with benefits, the next day, they had a job with no pay.

(McConnell) may be grateful Kentucky has only about 22,000 non-military, federal employees. Quadruple that to get the family-amplified number impacted, and you’re close to a fifth of (his) state’s population. …

These salaries cannot be replaced by baby-sitting gigs, as our heartless government leaders have suggested, and if their salaries could be replaced by baby-sitting we’re not paying them enough.

As (McConnell) collect(s his) salary this month, (he should) remember the equally loyal American employees who are working full-time, doing their jobs and not being paid OR standing by to return to the jobs needed by the government for the safety and security of the American people.

The crisis I feel we face is a crisis in ethics, a crisis in compassion, a crisis in loyalty to the American people. …