Posted on 12/25/2018 8:12:43 PM PST by vannrox
Here we go again with another partial government shutdown.
The fact that government shutdowns are so regular, and annoying to some but never a catastrophe tells you something.
The fact that the vast majority of the federal government is nonessential enough that the vast majority of Americans can get by just fine without it tells you something.
Basically, its national security and defense including border protection, by the way that are considered essential. Gee, thats interesting. Thats basically what the U.S. Constitution mandates for the federal government. Everything else was left to the people and the states. Theres also Social Security and Medicare. Retirement and health insurance were not part of the Constitution. But once the government passed laws making them promises, they became essential. Whether they government should have done that is another discussion.
Beyond that, pretty much everything is nonessential.
We have all these histrionics and theatrics every so often about a government shutdown. But the government only partially shuts down. It appears that the vast majority of what the federal government does is nonessential, so while inconvenient, its not the end of the world. It proves that everything the federal government does thats shut down during these periods could be provided for just as well actually, much better by the private, voluntary, and/or for-profit sector.
The founders of the United States who drafted the Constitution got it right. Imagine that!
-- Non-essential "government"
All of those non-essentials will wind up with three or four weeks of extra paid vacation.
nonessential federal gub mint?
Hell, 75 percent of the federal gub mint is mookabooking worthless.
I am tired of this yearly extortion. We just gave 10 Billion to Mexico n cent America.. and people are complaining that grandma couldn’t buy Christmas for her grandkids.
Both sides think we are stupid. If trump wanted a wall, he should have used the 10 Billion. Ridiculous political bs on both sides.
All of those non-essentials will wind up with three or four weeks of extra paid vacation.
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As I have said in other threads, my friend is full time National Guard. During shutdowns he gets sent home. When it’s over he gets paid anyway. He doesn’t care.
Why should non essential government workers ever get paid vacation? At a minimum that should end.
It makes you wonder why they have a job at all.
>>It makes you wonder why they have a job at all.<<
Having worked for the Federal Government for almost 30 years, I can attest to the fact that at least half of all employees I was acquainted with could have suddenly vanished, and essential programs and services would have been unaffected.
>>It makes you wonder why they have a job at all.<<
Having worked for the Federal Government for almost 30 years, I can attest to the fact that at least half of all employees I was acquainted with could have suddenly vanished, and essential programs and services would have been unaffected.
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