Last article I read states thst the military doesn’t get shut down, still gets paid, hadn’t seen anything to the contrary except comments, nothing in a printed article that I have seen yet to the contrary. So people may have gotten to worried here unnecessarily.
Wifey says I need to get new, lame jokes to tell the waitresses; as she's hear them hundreds of times.
"No", says I, "I continually get new audiences, so I can use the jokes over and over."
So; the new folks that have never heard of a 'government shutdown' can get scammed by the Libs old trick.
The question:
Will the REST of us who've seen it used again and again be like Charlie Brown and the football?
“...the military doesn’t get shut down, still gets paid....So people may have gotten to worried here unnecessarily.”
I’m sure you’re right, but my worry is the opposite - that nothing really shuts down - and I wish it would.
Who decides what is “essential”? Even the definition of military gets blurry - if it’s anything related to national security, I doubt the quasi military in the FBI, CIA, NSA, DOJ, DOS, etc, would shut down.
In short, the entire deep state and shadow government that Trump is battling - they would keep on subverting the will of the people during a “shutdown”.
The only services shut down would be high profile items that will make a good anti-republican news story about granny being thrown over a cliff and whatnot.
It’s all done for show, so the democrats can hold republicans hostage.
I hope Trump just calls their bluff - if he caves that’s like paying a blackmailer ransom - it only encourages more blackmailing.