Posted on 04/24/2017 3:23:49 PM PDT by mdittmar
*** “Last shutdown, they closed down the Mount Vernon parking lot, until they were told that the gubmint does not own George Washingtons home” ***
AND Nobodies A$$ got kicked (to me that was the saddest part), the USA has become such a bunch of wusses or fearful of the Government.
Shut it DOWN!
Prior to a dubious legal ruling by Carter’s AG Griffin Bell, federal employees continued to go about their business when these “budget arguments” occurred. They were considered not part of the “political process/argument” so irrelevant. Bell deliberately “politicized” the budget process by inserting them into it. I call his ruling “dubious” because I can’t find anywhere that the USSC has ruled on it. In those pre-Carter days only the standing administration “near & dear” programs and budget actions were held and not executed until the “political smoke” had cleared.
I think 1997 with a Newt managed Congress was the last passed & signed true budget. Prior to that was sometime in the Carter years. In place of true budgets we have had these CRs which I also think are also Constitutionally dubious!
“GOP WILL BE BLAMED BUT THAT WILL BE THE LAST SHUTDOWN IF DEMOCRATES WORKING FOR US KNOW THE SCAM IS OVER.”
It would be Trump’s ‘Reagan moment’ if he told them “No. You do NOT get paid for work you are not doing!”
Hell - they put up barriers in roadside stopping areas to try to keep folks from viewing Mount Rushmore....
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