caller: the marian v.a. -- i am one of the lowest paid employees here. i cannot exactly save money like he expects us to. reagan did make it so we cannot go on strike, but we could go on strike we could prevent the whole government shut down because the government would be afraid of us again. is there a reason why our union has never done anything to get us to be able to strike again? guest: thank you for your comments. i appreciate you on the work you do every day. a lot people do not realize that as a federal employee you are not paid a bunch of money. some of our people make about $34,000 a year on average. imagine living in a metropolitan city where you have to pay for transit to get back and forth to work and then housing, daycare. it becomes important to save money. i agree with you and i appreciate you. i appreciate what you do every day. i will continue to stand here and rep you. as you know, we take an oath as a federal employee and we know we cannot strike and we do not even talk strike. we try to make sure we get benefits that are been -- our

caller: the marian v.a. -- i am one of the lowest paid employees here. cannot exactly save money like he expects us to. reagan did make it so we cannot go on strike, but we could go on strike we could prevent the whole government shut down because the government would be afraid of us again. is there a reason why our union has never done anything to get us to be able to strike again? guest: thank you for your comments. i appreciate you on the work you do every day. a lot people do not realize that as a federal employee you are not paid a bunch of money. some of our people make about $34,000 a year on average. imagine living in a metropolitan city where you have to pay for transit to get back and forth to work and then housing, daycare. it becomes important to save money. i agree with you and i appreciate you. i appreciate what you do every day. i will continue to stand here and rep you. as you know, we take an oath as a federal employee and we know we cannot strike and we do not even talk strike. we try to make sure we get benefits that are been -- our me