Would you work eight hours a day, five days a week without any pay?

That is what President Donald Trump is demanding many federal workers to do because he wants his wall on our southern border.

How long do you believe any of them will be able to do it?

Think about the ones I am talking about — border security agents, FAA flight-control operators, federal prison guards, TSA inspectors, agriculture agents, federal loan officers and IRS workers.

Most of them have families to support and bills that have to be paid.

What will happen to the rest of us if these people decide that they have to find another job that will pay them to work?

How long will we be able to live without airplanes able to fly, farmers unable to get loans for their spring crops or if the prisons have to release their prisoners?

This is only part of what we are going to face if the government does not go back to work very soon.

—Julian Torrey

Salisbury