It says everything about the lowly state of the American worker that it has taken weeks for the idea that federal employees working without pay maybe should refuse to work to begin creeping into our civic discourse.
On Monday, Barbara Ehrenreich and Gary Stevenson called for what amounts to a wildcat strike by the nation's Transportation Security Administration agents, while over the weekend, veteran labor reporter Bob Hennelly at Salon went even further, pondering a national general strike in support of the 800,000 federal workers currently not receiving a paycheck.
The federal government has been partially closed for business due to President Donald "I am proud to shut down the government" Trump's intransigence for 24 long days.