Posted on 10/30/2023 4:41:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The House has a new speaker, and now attention returns to whether a government “shutdown” can be averted before November 17. If only the American people could place the federal government in lockdown just as the unaccountable bureaucracy did to them during COVID’s oppressive hysteria. (So much for the people being in charge, eh?) In response to our unmanageable debt problem, there is an online meme that is spreading faster than Biden’s human trafficking business at the border: Government Shutdown — Fifteen Days to Flatten the Curve.
Sounds like a good plan. Shut ’er down, and we’ll see where we are in a couple weeks. If the debt and deficit haven’t improved, we’ll just have to keep the federal government in lockdown until our unsustainable spending problem is finally under control. For all those highly paid, partisan bureaucrats worried about their sinecures, stop being so selfish! We’re all in this together, after all. The experts are working at the speed of economics!
Edward Holman says it best: “Had we merely refused to raise the debt ceiling one day forty years ago, the following morning Congress would have been forced to pay the debt service because we have always collected FAR more in tax revenue than needed to service the debt.” Americans should call the government’s “bluff that we would all drown in a lake of fire” if the Leviathan doesn’t get everything it demands. In other words, until the federal government gains basic arithmetic and accounting skills and learns to live within a budget, shut ’er down!
But how would the war hawks continue funding death and mayhem in Europe if they can no longer use American tax dollars to pay Ukraine’s government workforce and public sector pensions?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If only the citizens could sue the government for malfeasance.
They just let in “new” citizens to replace us, then everything’s good. “Conservatives” won’t complain as long as it’s done “legally.”
They try to take control for their own purposes. Despite the fact that they are necessary evils, they have only two goals once they start gaining size and power: (1) Increase their power/influence, and (2) Eliminate existential threats.
What makes me more angry than most anything is how the government always assumes that I can make due with LESS of the money I earn, but they can’t.
15 days to slow the debt.
“Sounds like a good plan. Shut ’er down, and we’ll see where we are in a couple weeks. If the debt and deficit haven’t improved, we’ll just have to keep the federal government in lockdown until our unsustainable spending problem is finally under control.”
Absolutely. I can’t believe how many are brainwashed into thinking that “money burning a hole in our pockets” is a good thing, Especially when there is no money at all in our pockets in the first place.
Good article thank you.
According to a GAO audit, gooberment offices surveyed are only 20% occupied. From that I’d say we can do without at least 50 to 80% of the gooberment we have now. Loafing from home is not full speed. Half or less at best for most. The gooberment does not need to be shut down. Most of the gooberment needs to be eliminated. The first 100,000 employees cashiered is just a good start. Make it half a million and you’re starting to get somewhere.
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