Posted on 09/29/2015 8:54:20 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Unless they’re hiring a bunch of consultants or paying a bunch of overtime they’re just fixed costs and would be incurred regardless if they are doing their bureaucratic nonsense or planning for a paid vacation.
Even before the end of the first sentence they lie, if the gov't is shut down than it is obama who is doing it, why republicans don't constantly harp on this is beyond me, they should do so every time the word shutdown is mentioned, it's like they find correcting the record offensive or they don't know the meaning of strategy.
Anywhere in here did Rooters mention that a shutdown would be a direct result of an Obama veto?
Not having read the article my guess would be... no.
GAO is not a "non partisan watch dog". When you put that lie in your story Reuters, you lose all credibility.
I wonder how many more times the media will be able to go to the ‘government shutdown’ well in service of the democrat party before enough people catch on.
Welcome to the Bizzaro World of the liberal ruling class. The shutdown costs money. So continuing to spend saves money.
When an addict stops using drugs, or alcoholic stops drinking, it causes temporary pain too. But they are much better off for it in the long run.
The Constitution provides that appropriation bills originate in the House of Representatives. That is there responsibility. The House is able and willing to pass a bill that will fund all aspects of the Government that there is agreement, should be funded. If the President wants more than those authorized to make the decision are willing to give him, and vows to veto or block the appropriations that would keep the acceptable activities of the Government funded? It is totally obvious who is responsible for any shut down.
Again, this is not debatable. The media, in their frenzy to protect the Mipip* in the White House, chooses not to understand the obvious.
* "Mipip" = My term for a Marxist influenced pseudo-intellectual poseur.
So why does Obama threaten a shut down when they send him a budget?
“Much of that was compensation to employees paid not to work “
Then it wasn’t REALLY a shutdown was it?
The decision to pay employees IN SPITE of a shutdown is a DISTINCT decision.
If you shutdown and DON’T pay, it’d be cheaper.
A little pause in the constant reckless spending in Washington would be a good thing. With the deficit rising and the debt continuing to explode exponentially, out only hope is to dramatically slash government budgets at all levels.
Nobody can doubt that the economy has been gutted by OZero. Remember 2008? Wall Street went into a panic once it was clear that the Kenyan national was ahead in the polls.
Lending stopped. Investing stopped. What could have been a small setback for the economy turned into a catastrophe. We lost Lehman Brothers and millions of jobs just in anticipation of OZeros neo-Maoist policies.
And things have only gotten WORSE since then.
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