No, I am not insulting you or intending to say anything negative. I was afraid to post what I did because I thought you might find it unsupportive. I was asking the question of whether it felt bad to you for me to complain about not getting paid by the federal government for contracts right now, when your H is furloughed and doesn't get a paycheck at all.

Edited to add: What I'm trying to say is that I wanted to offer you something supportive about how the federal shutdown is affecting you, but was afraid because of what you wrote in your original post about not commenting on it because your T is experiencing it too, but supposedly is more deeply affected by it. So I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that if I said yes, I'm in a similar situation but not as financially affected, that it would feel unsupportive or otherwise negative. Then I wanted to check out my perception about that. So what I tried to do is ask, does this feel unsupportive to you, to say that I'm impacted and worried about the shutdown too?