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HART: Government’s shutdown: Notice anything different? Exactly
News Herold ^ | Jan 13, 2019 | By Ron Hart | Syndicated columnist

Posted on 01/13/2019 11:35:33 AM PST by 11th_VA

Shouldn’t there be chaos?

The government shut down Dec. 21 over Sen. Chuck Schumer and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi petulantly not wanting Trump to have any border wall funding. The federal government spends $4.4 trillion a year; the $5 billion Trump wanted is one-tenth of 1 percent of that. About the same percent that Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren is Native American.

If you are like me, you are more worried about government starting back up than it being shut down.

Who will open our open-air national parks? Who will answer the phones when we call? Who will give us the runaround at the IRS? Who will put us into intractable wars? Who will use the Justice Department to go after political opponents? Who will put us $22 trillion in debt?

Most of NASA is shut down, including the division that we pay to monitor to see if aliens in outer space try to contact us. I trust they put their "Out of Office" message on their email before they went home, in case aliens contact us.

Shouldn't there be chaos? Why are you not looting Target for a flat-screen TV? Who will let me know when the panda cam is back on at the Washington Zoo?

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Hilarious spot on commentary ...
1 posted on 01/13/2019 11:35:33 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsherald.com/opinion/20190113/hart-governments-shutdown-notice-anything-different-exactly%3ftemplate=ampart


2 posted on 01/13/2019 11:36:25 AM PST by 11th_VA (Hey RATs - Negotiate or Starve)
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To: 11th_VA

Bob Menendez, creepy crook
3 posted on 01/13/2019 11:39:37 AM PST by conservative98
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To: 11th_VA

Someone FINALLY put the cost into perspective! The cost of the Wall is effectively the equivalent of a rounding error in the overall budget. Too bad Trump, et al never bother to put things in perspective. Instead, yak... yak... yak...


4 posted on 01/13/2019 11:40:53 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: conservative98

who’s the cottage cheese in the pink bikini?


5 posted on 01/13/2019 11:41:47 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: conservative98

SOMEBODY SHOULD NOT

be wearing that particular style of bathing suit. Just Sayin'.
6 posted on 01/13/2019 11:42:47 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: 11th_VA

db increase in whining.


7 posted on 01/13/2019 11:42:48 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Grimmy

Burkini needed.


8 posted on 01/13/2019 11:43:41 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: 11th_VA

My Apolitical Wife had no idea that the Government was shut down until last week when she heard me mention it while Posting here.

She doesn’t listen to the DNC Media or watch anything on TV except for Animal Shows or Investigation Discovery type Shows.

She can tune out my ranting and raving with ease, but she slipped up. LOL


9 posted on 01/13/2019 11:44:44 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: conservative98

Wait, the Democrats are in Puerto Rico during the Shutdown?

Shouldn’t they be out volunteering to help the poor ravaged Hurricane Survivors there?


10 posted on 01/13/2019 11:47:08 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: 11th_VA

There’s 800,000 employees we don’t need to be paying for.


11 posted on 01/13/2019 11:52:20 AM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: conservative98

Negotiating a price for services. Not underage by a long shot at least.


12 posted on 01/13/2019 11:54:08 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: CodeToad

The way the economy is rolling along these government workers should be looking for a real job. Oh wait! I forgot, if they are getting paid for not working during the shutdown or while actually on the job I guess that is not a good recommendation. Sorry, I lost my head for a minute.


13 posted on 01/13/2019 12:07:11 PM PST by mosaicwolf
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To: 11th_VA

Democrats On Vacation. Film at 11.


14 posted on 01/13/2019 12:09:51 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 11th_VA

Oh, wait everybody - I found something that isn’t working!

I went to the NIST site to look up the magnetic variation (declination) in Florida - and it was shut down:

https://governmentshutdown.noaa.gov/

Ya gotta know some Gummn’t plick punched the OFF button before he walked out the door. No big deal - it only changes by 0.001 degree per year - I’ll interpolate.


15 posted on 01/13/2019 12:15:22 PM PST by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: 11th_VA

Shut almost all of it down and turn out the lights. Most of it is unconstitutional anyway.


16 posted on 01/13/2019 12:23:09 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: left that other site

“SOMEBODY SHOULD NOT

be wearing that particular style of bathing suit. Just Sayin’. “

Not to worry, Menendez turns off the lights. It’s better for both of them not to have a good view. I just imagine that they both have a problem with body parts that droop substantially.


17 posted on 01/13/2019 12:25:18 PM PST by vette6387
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To: conservative98

Stop these bastards pay!


18 posted on 01/13/2019 12:34:17 PM PST by onedoug
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To: QBFimi

The Energy Star website is down too. I needed that for work. It was down so I moved on to my next task.


19 posted on 01/13/2019 1:04:05 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: Carry me back

How about the US Coast Guard?


20 posted on 01/13/2019 1:08:53 PM PST by Eyes Unclouded (The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom.)
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