Posted on 04/24/2017 7:52:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
One thing he should definitely do is highlight how many “non-essential” employees the government has.
The Republican’s shut down certainly caused their defeat in all following elections. /s/
I wan DJT to announce, at the 11th hr. that things are going to be done much as they are in the private sector:
Gov’t employees who are laid off as a result of a gov’t shutdown can file for unemployment checks. Just as employees of private employers do. There should be NO back pay in full for laid off federal employees.
Period.
Let the Dems crap a brick at that point.
“... Should Trump Make It As Painless As Possible?....”
YES! He should prove to the public that cutting government agencies by 1/4 to 1/3 will not be a problem. He should use this budget battle to weed out civil servants that want empires more than responsive government.
Trump is going run run circles around the establishment here.
He’ll either get what he wants in a budget or not sign it. If he doesn’t sign, then the gov’t “shuts down”... which allows him to decide what’s essential and what’s not... and how any money is spent.
lololololololol
Then he can keep services running that people like - and make non-essential anything he chooses.
hahahahahaha!!!!
Evidence? The link in the article shows only that "Americans said the GOP was responsible [for the shutdown] over Democrats." That Americans disliked the GOP shutdown is assumed rather than shown. I'd liked to have seen a survey asking, "How much effect has the partial federal shutdown had on your everyday life?" Bet even a lot of low-information Americans would have stopped and realized the answer was, little or none.
Send all the employees out into their parking lots and let them stand there until recalled....by name only.
Benson’s article dovetails nicely with this article:
Trump Wins YUGE in a Government Shutdown
American Spectator ^ | April 24, 2017, 12:04 am | LARRY SCHWEIKART
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3546739/posts
Obama already despised most of the American people so punishing and humiliating us was easy. He obviously had an efficient staff of hard core progressives who had the Park Service and other agencies set to go. It is still breathtaking to look at those pictures of armed park service employees blocking sidewalks and steps to open air monuments and laying blockades at highway pullovers so people couldn’t stop to take pictures of sites like Rushmore!!! And using armed guards holding tourists as virtual,hostages inside the lodge at Yellowstone so they couldn’t walk outside to see the view!!! Or even look out the windows!!!
I still marvel that so many Americans voted for and adored that man and his successors who subscribe to the same disdain and outright hatred of the general public.
Back to the question- no way do,I see Trump doing this but some scuzzy holdovers from the obama regime might try to mandate this crap in their mini fiefdoms
Yes, he should make clear he will sign no legislation that authorizes back pay for those non-essentials who were off. He should make federal workers equal to private sector workers in this regard — no better, no worse, they should apply for unemployment benefits.
But yes to back pay for those who continued to work.
I hope they do - that would make it easier for the Trump administration to identify and eliminate them.
Trump should make it painless as possible and fhen keep it closed! Trump could gon on forever only keeping open what he wanted and the few visible items the public (non government people) sees or cares about.
Great point.
A perfect opportunity for Trump to cut what he wants.
The RINO’s and RATs are going to regret not giving Trump his
border wall and defense spending money,
The filibuster should be eliminated. If republicans don’t do it now, democrats will surely eliminate it once they return to Senate majority. Comity has ended, it is now only about majority rule. Let’s get it done.
Should Trump Make It As Painless As Possible? Won’t matter, the press will only report on the ‘victims’.
So nothing has changed in Congress. The same last-minute stop-gap closed-door maneuverings of a handful of the Uniparty. Let's see Trump stand firm against this year's Government Shutdown Kabuki Theater.
“How much effect has the partial federal shutdown had on your everyday life?”
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Most low information voters probably didn’t even know there WAS a shutdown...*LOL*
I am kinda expecting a shutdown most of his voters would love it, it cements his power and he gets the border wall in the media more.... Illegals cost us xxxx per year pay for the wall in a year etc. Hammer all the other stupid things we spend more money on....
Trump should use it as an opportunity to shut down departments, agencies, and programs that he wanted to shut down anyway.
We raised 3.3 trillion last year. We spent 3.8. We had a 500 billion dollar deficit, so cut 14% of spending and we are living within the revenues we take in.
Then raising the debt ceiling is irrelevant.
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