The walking, speaking corpse that is Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who is reportedly worth about $700 million and yet still allegedly feels compelled to snag Sweet’N Low packets when he visits restaurants in addition to allegedly stealing $120 million from his investors back in the day, was on CNBC Thursday morning to speak about something he apparently knows quite a lot about: the financial distress of the hundreds of thousands of government employees and contractors who find themselves unable to pay their rent or home mortgages or their bills due to the government shutdown.