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I’M A SENIOR TRUMP OFFICIAL, AND I HOPE A LONG SHUTDOWN SMOKES OUT THE RESISTANCE
The Daily Caller ^ | :00 AM 01/14/2019 | Senior Trump Official

Posted on 01/14/2019 8:53:36 AM PST by SmokingJoe

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To: EnglishOnly

“They are getting paid all of it, when the Democrats agree with
the American people and fund the wall.”

YES, but if it goes on long enough, any number of them will be forced out onto the street because they live paycheck to paycheck. And that’s a good thing.


21 posted on 01/14/2019 9:36:23 AM PST by vette6387
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To: red-dawg

Cool cartoon, but that was last week’s “Talking Points”. This week it’s “Vanity Wall”, IIRC. Heard a quick montage of yesterday’s chattering class shows and every last one of them referred to the “Vanity Wall” in some respect.

What’s worse is that the people that watch these shows believe it hook, line and sinker. Have one friend who thinks these shows and Stevie Coal-burt are telling the “true” news, and anything on Fox is “fake”.

We were talking about pre-school in Caliph-phony-a (she and my wife are retired private pre-school teachers), and she was going on and on about how Betsy DeVos is going to ruin the school system. Of course, she poo-pooh’ed my comment that having the state take over the 3 and 4 year old programs was just another way to get more Union teachers in there, since about 99.44% of public school teachers here are in the Teacher’s Union, while about 10-20% of the private school teachers are unionized.


22 posted on 01/14/2019 9:37:20 AM PST by ssaftler (Faux-cahantas/Beto '20. Fake people with fake backgrounds.)
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To: SmokingJoe

My old man used to call it the 5-15-80 rule and he was right. That aside, this is fake news.


23 posted on 01/14/2019 9:38:31 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: SmokingJoe
next move at shuttered government agencies: lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down.

Wash rinse and repeat until all the left wing dandruff is removed.

24 posted on 01/14/2019 9:42:50 AM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Well stated. The long shutdown will force those not committed to combating the left to eventually call for the government to be reopened and thus, for socialism to continue, unabated, in the US experiment.

JoMa


25 posted on 01/14/2019 9:45:24 AM PST by joma89
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To: SmokingJoe
"Process provides jobs. In fact, there are process experts and certified process managers who protect the process."

Franz Kafka would be proud....
26 posted on 01/14/2019 9:52:55 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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My old man used to call it the 5-15-80 rule and he was right.

What rule would that be?
27 posted on 01/14/2019 9:55:06 AM PST by farming pharmer
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To: SmokingJoe

Has a single Federal employee quit his position over the “shutdown” yet? If any have, I’m sure they represent less than 0.01% of the workforce.


28 posted on 01/14/2019 9:57:54 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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Over 80% federal employees live and work in Ca! Next, they live and work in VA then in DC!

Don’t know but when I found out the “non-essential government employees” are living and working in Nirvana on the Left Coast, I’m thinking, heck yes, let these kale smoothie loving tree huggers quit those miserable, “non-essential” jobs and get a real one if they’re so miserable waiting out their “shutdown!”

29 posted on 01/14/2019 9:59:53 AM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: EnglishOnly

“It will drastically reduce the invasion of illegals to the American people”

That is the problem. It will work. That is exactly why the Dems do not want a wall. They want all the illegals to come in. Then they are going to push to give them the right to vote. They are already doing this.


30 posted on 01/14/2019 10:00:56 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: SmokingJoe

I can’t wait for the light bulb in the public’s head to go off when they realize that they do not need Big Government. Then the Tax Savings from Smaller Government light bulb goes off......


31 posted on 01/14/2019 10:04:30 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: woodbutcher1963

And Bush League Republicans like Rubio and Graham are assisting them.


32 posted on 01/14/2019 10:06:47 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SmokingJoe

Visit the coffee floor of fed buildings and watch your tax dollars at work.


33 posted on 01/14/2019 10:20:26 AM PST by Joe Bfstplk (How unfortunate tarring and feathering was abandoned.)
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I guess we can use this one instead.

34 posted on 01/14/2019 10:28:25 AM PST by red-dawg (Climate change caused the end of the Ice Age. Did man play a part in it?)
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To: SmokingJoe

I have worked on the inside (the VA) and I could NOT agree with this article more. The useless deadwood, the crazies, the incompetent, the unqualified, and the just plain lazy THRIVE in these jobs. Most of what we call the “government” could be abolished TOMORROW without a single hitch in our giddyup. And there are AT LEAST 3 cabinet post that SHOULD be abolished.


35 posted on 01/14/2019 10:58:46 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: red-dawg
The transmission of “daily talking points” is far more primitive than a fax machine. In reality it is the Associated Press newswire. 1848 tech.

36 posted on 01/14/2019 11:03:01 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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Actually, it is a pretty normal Pareto distribution applicable to many fields. Here are just two examples.

Sales: 80% of your sales come from 5% of your customers; 15% of your sales come from 15% of your customers; 5% of your sales come from 80% of your customers.

Purchasing: 80% of your purchases come from 5% of your vendors; 15% of your purchases come from 15% of your vendors; 5% of your purchases come from 80% of your vendors.

In either case, we are talking dollar volume, not number of incidents. We are also talking at a manufacturing/marco level; not an individual retail/micro level.

37 posted on 01/14/2019 11:35:25 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Hi. I hope you are doing well.

Any letter or email I write, any post on FR or social media, I use my real name. When I communicate with anyone, I want to be totally transparent.

(Sure, I’ve had some death threats, but everthing is cool now).

I don’t want to be anonymous.

5.56mm


38 posted on 01/14/2019 11:40:26 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Vigilanteman

That’s really cool, thanks for the post. I was familiar with gaussian distributions (from physics - lasers have gaussian distributions for example) but not Pareto distributions.


39 posted on 01/14/2019 11:49:51 AM PST by farming pharmer
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IF Trump lays off 20%===200,000 ‘workers’ who each make $average of 80,000 plus benefits, that equals $16 BILLION in one year.

That is the WALL money-—clean & fast.

Such a drop in ‘workers’ will help DC traffic, and other costs such as space, heat, desks, computers, power,,,,,etc.


40 posted on 01/14/2019 12:54:16 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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