Posted on 09/27/2013 6:52:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
More than a third of federal workers would be told to stay home if the government shuts down, forcing the closure of national parks from California to Maine and all the Smithsonian museums. Low-to-moderate income borrowers and first-time homebuyers seeking government-backed mortgages could face delays.
These would be just some of the effects of a government shutdown that could furlough as many as 800,000 of the nation’s 2.1 million federal workers. It could hit as early as Tuesday if a bitterly divided Congress fails to approve a temporary spending bill to keep the government running. …
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You mean to tell me that Algore has them?
Yep. Stuffed between his cheeks and gums. Don’t tell me you didn’t notice?
Good. It's a start.
What needs to happen next is for the GOP House to ensure taxpayers that not one dime of back pay gets handed out to these vacationing non-essential government workers once the government crawls back into "action". By the way, somebody please ping me when the government shuts down or opens up again because I won't notice either occurence.
Do not fear. Such essential functions like studies of the sex life of the Central American toad will not be cut.
In 2006, (During Bush’s Presidency) Sen. Obama said:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.”
“It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies...”
BTTT !
“When in the Course of human events,... it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,.... and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,.... a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Those causes are abundantly clear..... It may be time to consider separating ourselves from what the Framers might have regarded as a government foreign to them, which has led to the extortion of its citizens.
Cal Thomas
The last time all it amounted to was a paid vacation!
But couldn’t we just cut ALL foreign aid?
Oh no, that would just make sense?
We borrow 40 cents of every dollar we spend but still give to the damn countries that hate us and promote terrorism, but that can’t be cut. Just our national parks and museums.
I would like to see EPA cut forever.
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