Do you consider the people who Clean the office essential? How about the accountants and secretaries? Are these people essential to tracking the flu? Most government is support staff that has to do with building maintenance, book keeping, legal, administrative assistance etc and aren’t essential to the core but without them the agencies would fall apart eventually. People say this sort of thing whenever the government shuts down because they think it’s clever but it’s not.
I see. So it is actually the Schumer Shutdown rather than the Schumann Shutdown. I was listening to Chopin and my mind cross-pollinated with Schumann. Hope you will be okay. Because I am flexible kind of guy, I am also okay with having a Chopin Shutdown for a while too. Laissez les bons temps rouler. I see that some of the local coffee shops in DC are offering free coffee to fed employees. So life is good. They get free coffee there and can watch porn with the wifi there, so it is just like being at work.
Indeed. Free coffee and free time. Your ilk sees the word "free" and you light up like a Christmas tree.