<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Army Times.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="maintitle" style="font-weight: bold;">Anger,</span><span class="maintitle" style="font-weight: bold;"> helplessness’</span><span class="maintitle" style="font-weight: bold;"> for workers living</span><span class="maintitle" style="font-weight: bold;"> payday to payday</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: justify; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: justify; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Because of the shutdown, Joshua Keller and some of his co-workers at Fort Sill, Okla., are so worried that they have filed for unemployment.</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">The 29-year-old is one of 30 workers at the post public works department who were stunned to be sent home Oct. 1. He has no idea when he would return, and without his $15-per-hour job, he is scraping by on odd jobs.</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">“I don’t know how I’m going to pay my bills the next month, or get my mortgage or car payment paid. Everything came to a screeching halt,” said Keller, a married Army veteran with a 2-year-old son.</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span class="abody">“It’s a lot of anger, a lot of helplessness,” he said. “I don’t side with Republicans or Democrats because neither’s getting the job</span><span class="abody"> done. And we all have the struggle because of the shutdown.”</span></div></span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">Across the Army, federal government workers like Keller are dealing with the frustrating and dispiriting impact of the partial government shutdown.</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">An estimated 800,000, or about 40 percent of the total federal work-force, have been furloughed. The rest, because their jobs are deemed necessary to protect life or property or some other critical function, are still coming to work but, with the exception of some Defense Department employees, will not see a paycheck until after the shutdown ends.</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span class="abody">In the Army, the shutdown means evaluations won’t be processed, and most soldiers and Army civilians traveling or away for training must return to their duty stations.</span><span class="abody"> </span></div></span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span class="abody">Canceled and closed</span><span class="abody"> </span></div></span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">Staff Sgt. DesmondCassell, 31, of Fort Story, Va., said he and his pregnant wife waited in a long line for seven hours to replace her ID at Hampton Roads, Va.</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">All of the dining facilities on the post were closed, which complicated theirwait after they had driven 45minutes to the facility, andtheir medical appointments were canceled.</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">One place the shutdown is causing anxiety and headaches is Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, an isolated desert post where contractors like Cindi Hawkins must drive an hour for groceries because the shutdown closed the post commissary.</div></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sleep well tonight, V-Peeps. Congress will.<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>