Waiting 4 more days.
Then every non-essential can be laid off after 30 days of furlough.
What a great bargaining chip that’s going to be for Trump.
Build the wall or 500,000 bureaucrats get fired and all your SEIU dues go down the toilet.
They act like we really need these people.
The longer the shutdown just proves how much we don’t need these parasites. Most of these agencies have WAY too many employees.
For instance...
Does the IRS REALLY gives a shit about anybody. Are they being missed? They can all starve for all I care.
I am all in for trump and the Border wall, but at the same time I am concerned for the Border and Customs people and especially the Coast Guard and their families who live paycheck to paycheck. I hope Trump can do something to take care of them until they get their back pay.
Chris Coons seemed spooked when constantly pleading to reopen government. I wonder if some of these politicians realize that a reduction in force just might be in the works and desperately do not want it to happen.
Crisis?....what crisis?
My favorite was Krugman suggesting the shutdown would result in contaminated food because the FDA wasn’t conducting inspections. Except the USDA, which does 80% of federal food inspections, is still doing so. And the food industry already has standards well in excess of government standards.
The shutdown should demonstrate just how little we need most of the federal government. But the news media won’t dare let anyone believe that.
Sent Nancy a response last night:
“Please shut down more often.”
“You infants have no interest in resolving the shut down.
Grow up and govern for the American people rather than those breaking the law to compete with America’s poor.”
Our Federal government is a crises.
One of our younger relatives had to fly back to the east coast for her second semester of college.
The flights took 2 extra hours than scheduled. She said that most of her flights on that route without the “horrible government shutdown took that long or longer.”
So far that has been the only terrible problem due to the shutdown with close to 40+ relatives.
Of course no relatives work for the federal government.
They are inadvertently playing into Trump’s hands by declaring a “crisis” which can also be deemed a “National emergency”....
We need such “crises” on a frequent basis.