General Discussion

I'm going to quote my sister here. Four of the five siblings have been discussing it on our Signal channel.

Our niece is an air traffic controller in the northern part of Colorado. She and her husband have a two-year-old and a four-year-old. Air traffic controllers have been under tremendous stress, understaffed so working overtime. She took a day off week before last to see if she could get a bank loan to tide them over and figure out which bills they could delay paying on. She's working too many hours to be able to work a second job. It's cold there but can they afford to heat there house, feed the whole family, pay for medicine they need? What about seniors and disabled people?

I wanted to send them a gift card but have been buying groceries for a disabled friend and had to be careful. Couldn't give a little extra to the local food pantry either.

Yes, community was stepping up for one another – but it wasn't sustainable and people fall through the cracks. The laid off workers will get their jobs back anh back pay. But will those of us who pitched in? We are doing the right thing – but it's a cost we shouldn't have to bear and many of us can't bear for long.