Suspending the government isn't going to effect the personal financial standing of any US Representatives. Some like Michael McCaul of Texas is worth over $306 million and Daryl Issa over $215 million. The reason Ms. Wagner is playing martyr is to raise campaign funds.
She spent most of her campaign budget in 2012, so she definitely have to replenish it. She isn't sacrificing anything.
| 1989 - 2012 Total Receipts: |  $2,705,873 |
| 1989 - 2012 Total Spent: | $2,500,364 |
| Individual Contributions | $2,023,402 | (75%) |
 | PAC Contributions | $677,471 | (25%) |
 | Candidate self-financing | $5,000 | (0%) |
 | Other | $0 | (0%) |
As a matter of fact, her district includes St. Louis, Missouri which will suffer loses due to her actions in Congress. Scott Air Force Base is just outside of St. Louis. There hasn't been the loss of 800,000 jobs at one time in the USA since 2008. Republicans just don't care about average Americans. They never feel the loss in a way that really matters. 800,000 job loss is nothing to Republicans. They simply turn their noses up at "job seekers."
By Bill Lambrecht
St. Louis Post Dispatch
12 hours ago
At Scott Air Force Base, (click here) 3,000 civilian employees are expected to be furloughed in the government shutdown.
“We are like a little city within a city. If you have a good portion of employees go home, then it’s going to be disruptive to the mission in general,” said Scott spokeswoman Karen Petitt, among those who expect to be sent home.
Tens of thousands of federal employees in the St. Louis region kept close watch Monday on the fractious Congress, where dealings that could have averted a partial government shutdown or at least postponed it extended late into the night.
Those efforts failed. The new federal fiscal year begins today, and the government’s spending authority expired at midnight.
Without a federal budget, some 800,000 federal workers across the country are expected to be sent home from work today, amid far-reaching effects that will affect home-buying, food inspection, international travel and a host of other activities that involve the federal government....
