This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present. #DemocratShutdown— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018
The democrats prefer protecting illegal aliens rather than U.S.citizens!:
Posted on 01/20/2018 1:09:01 PM PST by fwdude
...are considered “essential?”
Mueller’s Witch Hunt?
US Fed Academies are now postponing sporting events... Didn’t
say cancel, just postponing.
the Class Six is also the base shopette, thus one can get the essential food groups: Chips, dip, milk products and bread. :)
All of the federal government’s essential services are specified in Article 1, Section 8, U.S. Constitution. The list is short and sweet.
If they aren’t delivered today, that useless junk mail will arrive in mass quantities later.
How I despise worthless commercial mailings.
What the Hell’s the 5 percent for, then?
I had to endure years of stupid AFN commercials on the commissary’s five percent...
They bragged always about running on that extra five percent!
NPR should definitely not be broadcasting today. I don’t know if they are or are not. I don’t listen since they are so biased.
Good question about the commissary’s 5% surcharge. I too thought it was for running the commissary, similar to AFFES. I was surprised when I saw the notice that the commissary would be closed due to the Schumer Shutdown.
From a related thread …
Regarding federal operations that are actually expressly authorized by the Constitution, note that the Founding States delegated very few powers to decide domestic policy, these few powers evidenced by some of the clauses in Congress’s Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
In fact, patriots can bet that any domestic federal spending program not reasonably related to the US Mail Service (1.8.7) is unconstitutional and probably win the bet most of the time.
In other words, nearly all post-17th Amendment ratification federal domestic policy is based on stolen state powers and likewise stolen state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes imo. This is evidenced by clarifications of Congress's limited powers by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices and other sources.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Given Congress’s very limited domestic powers, the main thing that citizens might notice in a federal shutdown where domestic policy is concerned is a delay in mail delivery.
So the glaring constitutional irony of the federal government shutdown is that "shutdown mode" is basically how the Founding States had intended for the feds to normally operate anyway.
Patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting, state sovereignty-respecting patriot candidates on the 2018 primary ballots, and pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day.
And until the states wake up and repeal the 17th Amendment, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of Alabama's special Senate election, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
Hacking Democracy - The Hack
Any federal employee deemed nonessential should be terminated, immediately.
The EPA will be nearly fully funded, but soldiers won’t be paid. That’s typical of today’s policies in government, business and academia.
The USPS is not a governmental agency.
This shut down is going to last for months. We will see what is essential and then we should take action to cut the non essential forever,
I’m more upset by the number of “NON-ESSENTIAL” employees there are. If they are NOT essential to the operation of the government, what the hell are they on the payroll for? Get rid of them and then do more house cleaning as more than likely they will find many, many more who are “non-essentials”.
Excluding the military, “federal” & “services” is an oxymoron. Now a more correct coupling might be “federal self-services”...
The commissaries rely on $1 billion in appropriated funds (taxpayer dollars) to operate.
I hear this myth repeated constantly,.."until the Congress resolves the budget, the non-essential employees are on paid vacation." I wish it were so.
I am a federal contract employee and with every furlough, such as this pending unemployment, if I don't work, I don't get paid. Period. There are very likely some, maybe union, federal employees who reap such a windfall as paid vacation, but I guarantee such is not universal.
More alarmed at how many ‘unessential personnel’ go home and their positions cease to function, until the government opens again.
If they are not needed when the government shuts down, why are they needed when it is open for business?
This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present. #DemocratShutdown— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018
The democrats prefer protecting illegal aliens rather than U.S.citizens!:
I’ve gotta steal that line.
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