Shutdown is a GOOD Lesson for Workers

Suffering can be a good thing.  And this shutdown is no exception.

The best awakening for me was when I was unemployed for 8 months.  It taught me how vulnerable I had left my family, and showed me how to be wise with my finances.

One DFW Church was passing out $100 gift cards to Walmart in it's service last weekend.  I think this was foolish.

The biblical approach is to give someone something that is not fleeting, like a $100, but instead to teach them the biblical principals of how God tells us to handle our money.  

And if you can't go for 2-4 weeks without a paycheck, you have no emergency fund.  And that is foolish.  Folks should not live at their means.  They should live below their means.  Doesn't matter how "meager" your salary is.

Maybe you need to sell that expensive car, like I did.  Maybe  you need to move out of that over sized house, like I did.  I learned and spent 12 years getting things right, sacrificing.  When we got to DFW, my wife and kids were dropping me off at work downtown for the first 1-2 years, since we sacrificed and had 1 car.  I then bought a "beater" for $2,500.  Now in DFW almost a decade, we two cars that are much nicer, but it was done wisely and we are debt-free, save the house payment. 

Do it wisely.  Learn from this, like I did.  And don't blame Trump.  Thank God.  And thank Him you have a job to go back to, and that you'll get the back pay, too!:)

And if you call in sick as a TSA agent..you're not a security agent, you're a rent-a-cop and should be fired.