If they aren’t “essential”, why the hell are we paying for them? Kinda like union jobs where guys sit around getting paid for doing nothing? WTH?
Every military school (West Point, Naval Academy, Air Force Academy) is effected and with Midshipmen basically having study hall until this is over. I thought you guys supported the military. I guess just when convenient.
You hit on a good point recently made by Thomas Sowell on the subject of shutting down services deemed to be non-essential:
Imagine a department that is tasked with exactly two objectives. One is to build statues to Benedict Arnold around the country. The other is to provide free school lunches to kids in poverty. Now suppose the department is ordered to trim 5% from its budget. From which half does it make the cut? Answer: 100% of the cuts will come from the free lunches. Cutting from that program will create a hue and cry to restore full funding, while a cut from the statue half will only lead people to wonder why we were paying for all the statues of Benedict Arnold in the first place.
Let’s apply that to the current situation. If they actually stopped the work of truly non-essential projects, people will very quickly wonder why we’re funding non-essential services.