It’s deja-vu all over again, as baseball legend Yogi Berra might have said. The politicians and media are telling us the world is coming to an end because a “compromise” could not be made at the 11th hour to keep the Federal government in business.
Republicans blame Democrats for the shutdown over their insistence on legislation to benefit about 700,000 “Dreamers” — immigrants who were brought illegally in to the country as children. Democrats make the shutdown all about Donald Trump, hoping to gain political points from his unpopular status. The media headlines are recycled from the last phony “shutdown.” It’s all about “partisanship” in Washington, mainstream media tells us. The same pundits are on television demanding that the parties put aside differences and work together for the American people.
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Don’t let the politicians and the media fool you. Despite the appearance of ferocious partisan warfare, the truth is that both political parties agree on all the important issues.
Both parties support perpetual, undeclared war.
Both parties voted last week to continue suspending the Fourth Amendment, granting President Trump and his Administration the “authority” to continue spying on all of us without a warrant for another six years. So much for Democrat talk that President Trump could not be trusted: they have entrusted him with the authority to spy on us for six more years!
Both sides agree on no spending limits for the warfare-welfare state. Both parties agree that the Federal Reserve should continue to manipulate our currency to the benefit of big banks, well-connected corporations, and Wall Street.
While they want to frighten us by claiming the shutdown will shut down the US military, making us less safe, the fact is Pentagon operations overseas will continue without pause. Defense Secretary Mattis assured us over the weekend that “daily operations around the world – ships and submarines will remain at sea, our aircraft will continue to fly and our war fighters will continue to pursue terrorists throughout the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.”
In other words the Pentagon will function as if there was no Legislative Branch to rein them in. But that;s not new. That’s been true for a long time!
Americans should understand that much of the Federal government is on auto-pilot. The deep state holds the cards no matter who is elected or how long the government is shut down. The CIA will continue arming terrorists and plotting to overthrow governments overseas. The “Justice” Department will continue handing out long prison sentences for people using marijuana even in states that have legalized marijuana. The NSA will continue spying on us without a warrant and telling us it is to keep us safe and free.
We are told that all “non-essential” personnel will be furloughed until Congress agrees to begin funding the Federal government again. In fact, the real “non-essential” personnel are most Members of Congress themselves! Perhaps their pay should be docked for each day they pretend to be in conflict. The only danger of that, of course, is that they would reach the inevitable compromise even sooner.
The only way average Americans will notice that the government is shut down will be high-profile closures of any national park or other such facility that Americans actually want to visit. That is their way of punishing Americans.
Who wins when a “compromise” is finally announced? Not the American people, that’s for sure! The winner will be, as usual, big government.
We should consider shutting down the Senate until the States repeal the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. That would be good for the States and the people.
And the Band played on.
And the music sucks and it’s way too loud! It’s more like a cocophany than music! It kept me up all night again! Fucking mutant techies!
That’s calliope music, Andrea. The Circus is back in town, and they intend to stay awhile.
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Robert (QSLV)
I just heard on the news that all “non-essential” gov’t workers are now furloughed. My question is if they’re non-essential what the fuck are they doing there in the 1st place?
When I worked at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma, I LOVED hearing that on the news during a storm. “Nonessential personnel from Tinker are to stay home.”
Hell, I used to stay home a day or so extra I knew I was just that nonessential. Most of us did.
(my contractor lost the program management contract of which I was part… not because of me. well… not ONLY because of me.)
When the shutdown is over, these people will go back to work, and be fully compensated for their lost wages. So why don’t they just continue to work, knowing they will get paid eventually?
We got a bonus for being part of program management team. LOL… nonessential my ass.
According to NPR, we’re all going to die of the flu because the CDC won’t be able to tweak its ineffective flu vaccine. Also global warming or something.
In local news, a mobile vaccine-truck is out and about in the community if anyone wants to get a flu shot. No kidding. A world gone mad.
It has been frozen solid around here for a while, thawing day before yesterday. Last night it rained and rained, with the ground very spongy in places, especially where I’ve been composting bunny waste. The earthworms will be feasting.
I went to town shopping Friday, just to make sure I remembered how. Can you imagine being able to stay in your cozy little log home, stepping out only for firewood and to check water and food for animals for more than a week? Well, imagine what a government shutdown means to me.
On my morning chores I listen to a local news/talk station. Every weekday morning they have a different guests on to speak about their business/organization/department/etc. Monday morning during the 8am hour they have a young woman from the St. Gaudens National Historic Site. If you’ve never heard of it or been, it’s a wonderful little gem of a spot-
https://www.nps.gov/saga/index.htm
So this morning due to the government shutdown, the woman who normally shows up and chats about what’s going on over there didn’t come in. Think about that. Was she forbidden from showing up? It’s a talk show on a privately owned radio station that is always welcoming to her on any other Monday morning to promote whatever is going on over there. Nothing prevented her from coming on the show and promoting it, even discussing the impact of the shutdown, but rather than to act like a responsible adult, she chooses not to because she wasn’t being paid.
That’s a government mindset. An entrepreneur or an employee of a company that was closed on a particular day would show up- in fact I know a lot of the people who do these interviews and most of them are volunteers or show up sans remuneration in order to promote their cause/site/organization/etc.
Keep it shut down, teach these non-essentials a lesson.
When my aunt was forced to retire from teaching elementary school for back issues, she took a reduced pension and volunteered to tutor children for free in her home close to the local school. She did so for a number of years, helping many kids learn to read and work with numbers the old-fashioned way.
In 1990s, the local teachers’ union asked that the school board require all tutors to be approved by the teachers’ association. My aunt was asked to stop tutoring kids. Period.
Isn’t that strange that the teachers’ association would ask a qualified volunteer to stop volunteering?
The Federal Reserve is private.
They print the money.
How the fuck can you run out of money?
It’s a sick theatrical joke.
On us.
I expect that e-mails and texts at the FBI will go further down the rat hole. They will be lost forever.
Big fire at data warehouse in Utah coming soon?
I’m betting the rat bastards at the IRS are on the job and if by some stroke of luck the shutdown last through April or May, they will be there to GLADLY ACCEPT our tax payments.
Just a reminder, the government in Belgium shutdown for close to two years and it was business as usual and people could have cared less. But then again, they didn’t have a dindu population needing dey EBT and welfare checks.