Orygun
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I’m guessing you’d be fine if the government continued to stop paying TSA agents, the Coast Guard, FBI and Border Patrol agents. They don’t need to get paid right? They leach off of us taxpayers anyway.
conan
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What goverment shut down?
It’s all fake news/fabricated news.
Jezcoe
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“I will be proud to shut down the Government “
- President Donald J Trump.
We should just stop paying them altogether but make them keep working.
Beat them until morale improves.
If in a partial shutdown you want to assert it that affects specific agencies you might provide documentation that it does.
But just to be clear about my opinions of those in Congress: if they were among those most affected the Democrats / DNC proper wouldn’t care. Those people are just enforcing something the Left doesn’t want enforced.
Orygun
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Seriously? You haven’t read the many news accounts of federal workers not getting paid?
Here is a partial list:
More than 41,000 federal law enforcement and correctional officers are impacted, including:
– 2,614 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents.
– 16,742 Bureau of Prisons correctional officers.
– 13,709 FBI agents.
– 3,600 Deputy U.S. Marshals.
– 4,399 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents.
Up to 88 percent of Department of Homeland Security employees are affected, including:
– 53,000 TSA employees.
– 54,000 Customs and Border Protection agents and customs officers.
– 42,000 Coast Guard employees.
– As many as 5,000 U.S. Forest Service firefighters.
– 3,600 National Weather Service forecasters.
Just checking if you think this is no big deal and should probably go on for a lot longer because its just “a small scale shutdown”.
Larry Kudlow clarified a few things a little while ago, re: the motivations and inner lives of these government “volunteers” (sic):
"They honor us and they do it because of their love for their country and the office of the presidency and presumably their allegiance to President Trump," National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said while speaking to reporters at the White House briefing room. “They’re doing it. Give them some credit. There are a lot of wonderful people in this country.”
“They’re volunteering,” Kudlow reportedly said. "But they do it because they believe government service is honorable and they believe in Trump and they’re working as hard as ever.”
There’s video of these exchanges now, by the way.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/426851-kudlow-federal-workers-impacted-by-shutdown-are-volunteering-in-part
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Orygun
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Volunteering…Jesus.
“Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.”
I know someone doing research (federal) that has lost a years worth of work because he CAN’T get to his experiment. Barred by law. He’s not essential so it’s all gone. And he is just one of many that have lost important work.
The reach of this idiocy is more than a lot of people realize.
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Does anyone really need those pesky swing voters across the country?
This thread is like a test to see who consumes the most republican media.
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Someone once said that it is better to be silent and be thought to be ignorant then to blog and confirm it.
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It is sad that the vast majority of what the federal unlawfully does is still happening – all that progressive BS – and yes, I’d love it if the whole entitlement edifice collapsed while some of the people who cheered as the Constitution was kicked to the curb to create it were still around … but the military is still going…
Would you be presuming my attitude towards the profession of journalism is somehow stratified? I have a higher opinion of lawyers than journalists.
… Used car salesmen aren’t so bad by comparison…
I don’t claim to be the all encompassing god of empathy like Libs do…
What percent of the population does it affect? Isn’t that what Democrats usually ask when concerning certain laws and tax policy? Sadly, if it doesn’t have any impact on a person’s life they probably don’t care. Hell, how many people don’t watch the news or get into politics? They probably don’t even know a shutdown is in progress.
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dantes
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No. You spent all your empathy on Venezuelans.
I just had a conversation with my Uber driver on the way home from DC.
His wife is a secretary at some government agency, and she’s been on furlough for a month now, so he’s the only income the family has. They have a 3 year old, and his mother-in-law lives with them as well, and takes care of the kid (normally). He’s a full-time Uber driver.
He relies on government employees to take rides from him - a staggering number of DMV residents are either contractors or Federal employees - and since the shutdown he’s been spending 16 hours a day driving his car, making less than he would normally make in 8 hours.
They’re barely holding on - and rent is due in a week.
