Waiting maybe months to a year to get paid is a good thing? Seriously we’re not talking people with executive incomes having salaries deferred, we’re talking working class people. Some of whom, based on their jobs and conditions of employment may not moonlight with second jobs. Some IRS workers who have been called back to work without pay, are concerned about having money to pay for gas to get to work. There are families who in another 30 days will be losing their medical insurance. Some of these workers have families who have critical medical needs.
I can’t see how Americans benefit without food inspections at the manufacturing or import level. Or how flyers benefit when the safety inspectors who are required to certify a plane for flight have been furloughed.
Certainly the people living in cities like Lkwd and PalmTree who have high levels of dependence on national programs aren’t benefiting. They may have gotten their February SNAP benefits early but those payments are the last until the shutdown is over. How many property owners in Monsey, Lkwd, or Palmtree depend on Section 8 Voucher $ to make their mortgage payments? It’s illegal for them to ask their renters to make up the difference. Emergency heating subsidies will be greatly reduced because those programs will no long receive federal funds. WIC is vital to many pregnant women, no more benefits for those women and children.
BTW few states pay unemployment to workers who are furloughed. Naturally if they are paid, those monies advance must be repaid when they receive their back pay.