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all right today's question comes from jason and south carolina and it actually came in last week

before there was a kick the can down the road moment in the government but it said with the

impending government shutdown,

how do I, as a government employee,

combat the stress and anxiety of possibly not getting paid

but still being required to show up for work?

Is that how that works?

Yeah, well, there's back pay.

So once they're back, they get the money.

But while you're there, it's not happening.

Which means they're missing some paychecks.

I've got my own thoughts on that.

I'm the sole provider.

My third daughter will be here in November.

We have no savings and are in some debt. All right. So I'm going to

answer this, George, globally, because it's super frustrating for me. If I had, let's say we had,

I want to put something into context for everybody, okay? So when COVID happened and we were told you cannot go into the office, Dave and the operating board called that emergency meeting, if you remember that.

And Dave said, we have this much money in the account.

This is how much cash this company has on hand and we are a cash only company.

This is how much we got.

This is how much cash it takes

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