Posted on 09/21/2023 3:06:20 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
When the Feral Government is shut-down they do less damage.
Yup. It cost MORE for the feds to put out barriers, signs and ropes on the Mall to keep people out than normal operations.
a nation of ..............
It’s pretty ridiculous. There are only five Republicans that expect the promises made by McCarthy to become Speaker should be kept. The most important promise was to do appropriations using regular order. That requires all appropriations bills to be summed so the total spend is known and spending can be adjusted to meet goals. But McCarthy and his pussy RINO, assistant Democrats want a CR and an omnibus that continues the programs and spending of Biden and Pelosi. These pussies don’t even attempt to make an argument.
Has anyone in Congress been talking about the Defense appropriations bill beyond wasting money on a corrupt Ukraine? How about a discussion on a corrupt and woke Pentagon that loses endless wars while killing and maiming our sons?
We have 47 four star generals and admirals for approximately 1.5 service members. At the height of WWII we had 11+ million troops and only seven four star generals/admirals. We won that war.
There are hundreds of woke generals and admirals under the 47 four stars. Each has his own budget for his pet projects and all of that waste is uncoordinated. We have a military full of faggots, gender deniers and drag queen freaks. Recruiting and retention is at an all time low.
We have over 300 bases around the world, but do we ever talk about actually defending our homeland? We train and fight for the wrong things. We pay to protect the world but don’t protect ourselves. Why aren’t there spending priorities in the defense budget for actual American defense?
We have operated on a lie ever since WWII. That lie is we need to fight “them” there so we don’t fight “them” here. How did that turn out with Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and dozens of other places? Christ, the Biden Administration was just over in Vietnam begging the commies for trade. Eventually we’ll be begging every nation that has defeated us.
Maybe, just maybe if we focused on America first, defended America first, and left the rest of the world take care of their own, then we would actually have a strong military at half the price and have true security at home. That would also mean saving trillions.
Back to regular order for appropriations bills … actually having a discussion on national defense and that leading to changes in the defense bill requires changes to other appropriations bills. Likewise, changes in other appropriations bills will necessitate changes in defense appropriations. Defense policy does not live in its own self-contained black box. Changes in foreign policy, homeland security policy and even domestic policies all affect one another. They do not independently exist in their own vacuums. But McCarthy doesn’t want a discussion on any of these. He wants to continue Biden and Pelosi’s incoherent policies that are destroying America and making us weak. Just pass the CR and just pass the omnibus in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve. Yes, that’s real leadership./s
Shut it down!
It is their fault. They have had months to at least get spending bills out of the house. They would be DOA in the senate but at least they passed them from the house.
McCarthy promised no more CRs and no more Omnibus bills.
What happened to that?
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Shut it down.
Your post increased the knowledge base of this forum. Thanks.
Voters who care aren't stupid. They will reward intestional fortitude.
STOP BEING P*SSIES!!!”
BTTT
Needs to be repeated again and again.
THe spendoing bill is owned by the Uniparty who won the RINOs who are trying to push this forward. It is not the MAGA spending bill, which would cut funding to a long list of things ...
Great post...thanks!
“The unpredictability is sad for the country,” said Representative Rosa DeLauro, top Democrat on the House appropriations panel.
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Lady, the “predictability” of Continuing Resolutions that make it possible for crooked politicians to HIDE money going to their favorite bribery person (who then passes the dollars on to the politician) has DESTROYED the country by enabling accumulation of a plus 30 Trillion dollar debt.
Millions of Americans believe 2/3 of 535 people in our Congress are crooks and on the take.
Rosa is the ugliest female in Congress.
All great posts by all the posters !You all have it right !
No CRs,no raising the debt limit,no money or arms to the
Ukraine.
We’ll get by.
Let it burn
1 Timothy 5:8
King James Version
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
They should be. This is an epic screw up by the MAGA house idiots. Yes I said it.
We finally got all the various house spending bills broken up, starting with defense separate, after all the years of the bloated consolidated Omnibuses bills being signed into law, including by Trump every single time.
Yet for some idiotic reason, now they are going to fall right on their sword and block the first separate bill, so say hello to the bloated consolidated Omnibus bills all over once again.
Looks to me like it's probably all scripted after this, as if there was ever much doubt.
Shut the bitch down.
No back pay to government workers
If they don’t like it tell them to find a real job
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