Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bell again. So today, we're going to talk about

Trump's shutdown, Economic Impact Edition. Now in addition to Trump saying, he'll lay off

American workers if he isn't allowed to avoid helping the working class with health care.

His administration is suggesting that federal workers won't be entitled to back pay for the

time they were forced out during the shutdown. Let's start with the layoff problem first.

Even though we're not getting jobs reports from the federal government right now,

we have access to other jobs data, and it's pretty bleak. It's actually bad enough

that conspiracy theories have popped up, saying Republicans shut down the government

to avoid having to release more bad economic numbers. There's no evidence to support

that that I've seen. It really seems as simple as not wanting to support the working class.

Investment Big Boy Carlisle released their numbers. This is an investment firm with about half a trillion under their management.

They say the economy added just 17,000 jobs last month. If you aren't familiar with these numbers,

that's really, really bad. ADP showed a loss of 32,000 jobs in the private sector.

Trump's solution to trying economic times?

Layoffs from the federal government

that would not only put more people out of work,

but would also put those out of work federal employees

in competition for the same dwindling amount of jobs. Beyond that, Republicans are now suggesting

that furloughed federal employees might not get back pay, because surely simply deleting

income from the economy will help keep America's financial state from sliding further into the abyss.

The reality is that it's another attempt by Republicans to use the working class as a bargaining chip,

looking at Democrats and saying, look what you made me do. We're talking about around 750,000 workers who have been furloughed, some of whom are deemed

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