[2ndDivisionVet]

Jared Bernstein, a former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and author of 'The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity'.

[Trump.Deplorable]

“until President Trump swooped in at the last minute and blocked the deal, based on pressure from his base to “build the wall.” No one, including Trump, knows what “the wall” is, beyond a campaign slogan. “

Any proof of this? If I remember, the President was asking for the 5.7 billion in early December. This was not “last minute” by any means. DNC talking points, AKA lies

[Grampa Dave]

More fake news from the Compost posing as a reality!

[McCarthysGhost]

It will hurt the GDP by some but not a lot.

[blackdog]

DICTIONARY wall× wall /wôl/Submit noun noun: wall; plural noun: walls 1. a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land. "a garden wall" synonyms: barrier, partition, room divider, enclosure, screen, panel, separator; palisade; dam, dyke "solid brick walls"

Webster's.

[Mr. K]

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS point out that when they say “progressive” they mean “socialist”

Every single time, UNTIL IT SINKS INTO PEOPLES’ HEADS!!

Also remind the libtard children indoctrinated from public schools that Hitler was a socialist, and ‘nazi’ is the German term for “national socialist’ party.

[blueunicorn6]

What shutdown?

[vette6387]

“Jared Bernstein, a former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and author of ‘The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity’. “

Which translated, simply means he’s just another Secular Progressive Capo who doesn’t know his a$$ from a hole in the ground! Just wonder if he’s as adroit at copping feels off of little girls as his former boss?

[Mr. K]

What the hell does Tolstoy have to do with anything in this argument?

[Cowboy Bob]

Why does the Vice President need a chief economist?

[onedoug]

The Washington Toast.

[PGR88]

Americans are finding out that 800,000 “non-essential” Fed.gov employees are exactly that.

And there is extreme depression, rage and self-doubt in the imperial city of Washington because the Fed.gov workers are also finding out they are useless

[sparklite2]

No one, including Trump, knows what “the wall” is, beyond a campaign slogan.

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Dear Jared, bless your heart, just because you don’t know what the wall is doesn’t mean the rest of us are ignorant. You’re showing yourself to be a bubble-boy.

I’d like you to meet film critic Pauline Kael, who that she couldn’t believe or understand how Richard Nixon won the election, because “no one I know voted for him.”

[Vaduz]

Progressives are the cause of how we got to this point passing the buck again.

[newzjunkey]

We’ve had an idea what the wall would look like for a decade. Trump asking for barrier funds isn’t news. He was told after agreeing to past continuing resolutions they would get around to it. Never happened. Now he’s saying enough already. Reagan didn’t get the enforcement he was promised to agree to amnesty.

[Windflier]

The President is requesting $5.7 billion dollars as a partial payment for the wall.

That amount is equal to 1/10th of 1% of annual FedGov spending.

One tenth of one percent.

Not even a rounding error.

Fully funding the wall would amount to 1/2 of 1% of annual FedGov expenditures.

A pittance in the grand scheme of things.

It’s obviously not the money.

[trebb]

Another WAAAAAAAA! from the WaaaaaaPo...

[Pollster1]

I’d urge Transportation Security Agency workers to engage in either a massive sickout or a strike, the latter of which would be illegal and is thus not without risk (although working without pay shouldn’t be legal either). Shut down air travel and you un-shutdown the government in about an hour, I’d bet.

I'd be very much okay with this. That would give a sense of urgency to ending the shutdown, and I hope and pray that Trump would respond by reopening the government - and ordering the Wall built under his emergency powers. I'd love to see him put $40B into materials for the Wall, with the military providing 100% of the labor. I wonder how many miles of Wall you can get for that price if the labor is already covered by salaries in the DoD budget.

They say $5B will build a little less than 300 miles of wall if that price includes labor. Assuming half the cost is materials, I'm guessing $40B with zero for labor would build a double wall, spaced several hundred yards apart and with a road for patrolling between the two walls, and a triple-strand concertina wire barrier another couple hundred yards beyond that second Wall. Sounds like the best imaginable national defense action for our military. Then we can reopen the government and use the $5B that Nancy is offering to hire more ICE and more immigration judges to deport the 12 million plus illegals already here.

No new illegals. Zero. New illegals should get immediate immigration hearings (if the globalists win on that demand) and be deported if they do not have the documentation to prove they meet the strictest interpretation of our laws, and even those who have documentation should be required to pass an NSA-level polygraph to get asylum. Illegals who are deported should be permanently barred from reentry. No Amnesty. Deport all illegals. No exceptions. Then we can fix our legal immigration system so those immigrants whose presence helps the United States and in particular helps working Americans can come here legally.

[YogicCowboy]

We need shutdowns more often, and for longer.