Honesty?

Even if you agree that a border wall might be effective, is it worth disrupting the lives of 800,000 people and their families?

Many of these employees are being asked to work with the promise of future pay and others are being told to stay home with no promise of future payment, although precedent says they likely will get paid.

Some people feel federal workers are part of "the problem" and they may be sitting back taking pleasure at the disruption in their lives.  The people impacted are just the workers in the system who perform jobs that are certainly necessary to all of us, like airport security, tax services, national parks and many others.

They are going to miss a paycheck and many of them are not going to be able to pay bills without some sort of assistance.

One paycheck is pretty disruptive for most of us, and there is no sign that this is ending anytime soon.

Clearly the dontard realizes he can never get enough support to fund his foolish wall without resorting to blackmail, but the blackmail isn't working.

Maybe his shrinking base still backs his tactics, but even many of them recognize that they are creating victims.

His attempt to sway public opinion to his side was predictably unsuccessful as his appeal is limited to a rather narrow audience, that don't have the desire or inclination to consider if his claims are true.

He gets away with this to some extent at his rallies filled with unquestioning supporters, but it doesn't translate in the rest of the world.

We prefer honesty.