Actually I am a little surprised the GOP has not caved in yet with the media's hourly broadcasts of government workers starving, freezing and begging in the streets.
Well, I don't fly much as I did, but seems to me that most of the TSA agents could stand to shed a few pounds.
And just how much sympathy do IRS agents generate?
Now I do feel bad about the thirty thousand Coast Guard (who knew there were so few?). But they can always eat on station, we still feed them, right?