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Sherlene: Dear Federal Government Workers

Dear Federal Government Workers, I have empathy for what you are going through right now. I worked for the government for several years--regardless of whether employment verification is given. You should really get one of them to prove to your debtors the severity of this partial government shutdown. How does it feel to work every single day and not have a paycheck, feels like volunteerism right? Oh, and if I were you I would keep a separate timesheet journal to include in your work portfolio. Let's hope that no one steals your work portfolio--like another internal government employee of your career industry.

How can you prove that you work for the government when you aren't getting a paycheck?  I guess you could prove it by your tax return is what several federal workers told me. Just keep in mind that a tax return doesn't formally identify your job title with the organization. In other words, an IRS representative will not be able to determine you what you are doing, what your job title is. Suggestion: See if your boss is willing to verify your employment. Or will your boss say that they don't know you? As a federal employee said to me "Maybe you are living in a false reality of thinking that you work for the government." Seriously, how are you able to prove your identity of working at your existing position within our government, federal level?

I believe I read an article that commented that there are more independent contractors who are now working for our government (federal level) than traditional workers with traditional W2s and benefits. Hopefully, you won't have to play the mind game of trying to figure out, by yourself, whether you are a W2 or 1099 employee. If you are a W2 employee, you should have a copy of your employment contract and benefits. 1099 employees generally have to pay for their own benefits and any work-related expenses.  At the end of the year, 1099 employees receive a 1099 earnings statement.

Do you have kids and a husband? How many children do you have? one? two? three? four? six? [The average family composition, of this generation, is typically two children or less. In the last ten years, most new, modest homes have a maximum of two bedrooms.] I know how that can be with struggling to pay bills and to help within your household.  Years went by, waiting for federal employees, to help my family composition.

If you are going through a divorce, I would dismiss such a request until your earnings are more consistent. Otherwise, you could risk losing physical custody of your kid(s). There is nothing wrong, however, in pursuing joint-custody arrangements if both parents are mature in agreeing of partaking in such actions.

Years have gone by of no one apologizing to me, federal level or state [State of Maryland], verbally/written or punitive damages, of the fact(s) of the premeditation of trying to state that I was never married or had four kids.  I wondered why for so long! Let me tell you that I know you will overcome this situation in time. Contact your debtors, and explain your situation. Arrange a payment plan, try not to avoid your debtors. Make certain that they have your correct contact information. I haven't worked on a full-time job since 1997! That has been the year of my last full-time job, and that job was working with our government, state government (State of Maryland). I haven't been able to get another government job or any other full-time job since 1997 of working for the government. So I know what you are going through and I have compassion for the traumatic experiences that you and your family are facing.

I will keep you, only you, in my prayers. One of my prayers is that we will learn something, as the weeks go by. May our government become more efficient--is my prayer--so that it will not continue to shut down so frequently, and so it will not look down, or tear down its governmental employees.

Dear families, we must remember that the government is made up of local citizens. Local citizens of our local communities that have their own feelings of political issues, feelings of how they believe that families should live: how much education that we need;  how much we should earn; and how our government should be systemized. When they don't want to tell us what's going on it is because they believe that we don't have any power. If we don't have any power, how are government employees selected to work for us? If we don't have any power in voting, please tell me how was Obama selected to be our top chief, our president?

To identify something as bad, you must have some knowledge of identifying what is good. In closing, if Obama has been identified as being a part of the best presidents classification than how did we choose a man that many consider the worst president that we have ever had? If one political party is better than another, why can't they seem to be in unison of selecting a "single" presidential candidate instead of the many, from the same political party, that would like to be president? In my hometown, we consider that to be the actions of many that would like to be a chief Indian versus simply being a part of the Indian family [or working as a collective group in community actions of solving problems to make better neighborhoods].

Our North American continent population has grown, there is no way that one presidential leader can productively lead all the people. There is no way that our nation's president can distinguish what agencies are working productively without the consistent cries of citizens demanding changes of unproductivity actions of the symbol of government.  Right now, there are a lot of Americans that have the same sound; the same echoing sound of demanding an immediate decline of governmental chaos. A people wanting to hear echoes of unison in the symbol of government understanding the needs of all us--regardless of racial identity or socio-economic status. Lastly, I believe that we must learn to live in peace with our neighbors, to live in peace where there is no peace and to be given the opportunity to govern our selves. Peace can not be forced by government at any level. Peace is something that is experienced, when there is a decline of selfishness.

        "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live.                                                                                 It is asking others to live as one wishes to live." -Oscar Wilde