EXCELLENT!!
Posted on 10/15/2025 4:44:36 AM PDT by deport
The United States government shutdown drags on, marking a pivotal moment in America’s fiscal and constitutional history. President Donald Trump, the negotiator-in-chief, isn’t blinking. He’s swinging the axe at bloated, Democrat-run bureaucracies that have taken trillions from hardworking Americans for decades.
While Nancy Pelosi and her party claim "chaos" and Trump is turning crisis into clarity — freezing $26 billion in blue-state pork, halting green-energy pet projects and directing departments to prepare reduction-in-force plans as part of a broader review of spending and accountability. Those plans are now in motion: the Office of Management and Budget confirmed that federal layoffs have begun, with cuts underway in Health, Homeland Security and Commerce.
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the greatest fear the politicians have is that we will notice, if the government shits down for an extended period, that everything goes on like usual, and they are not needed. The world is better off without them and their useless hollywood-like sh&@.
“if the government shits down”
We’ll see as long as it isn’t up
wow. spellchecker didn’t see that. ha. That’s what I’m going to call it- the government Sh&@-down why not
It will be interesting to see who caves on this and when. Right now I think the dims are sweating a bit as their programs get the axe. Probably some thought Trump was all bluff on this but who knows what exactly was their thinking and calculus going into this shutdown. Chucky was aware back in March and avoided a shutdown then exactly for this reason but either things look different now or he faced too much pressure this time.
I have hopes. Trump’s presidency may give thinking people at least a glimmer of what the United States would be capable of with honest government.
His success will highlight how cheated Americans have been by what has come before.
Taking a week to start swinging is following the advice of Abraham Lincoln who was said to say “If I had four hours to chop down a tree, I’d take the first two hours sharpening the axe.”
(NOTE: This quote is attributed to Lincoln, but as he also said, you can never trust everything you read on the internet.”)
1. Get rid of Dept of Education
2. Privatize post office
3. Privatize airport security
4. Get rid of Dept of Energy
5. Get rid of OSHA transfer to states
6. Get rid of Tramsportation
7. Get rid of the Fed
Keep a very low over head group of employees to over see these dept
Freudian
Yeah it’s like Y2K. Everybody got all scared and... nothing. Not a damn thing. The dems are playing a weak hand and they know it. But they’ve painted themselves into a corner with all the TDS crap and their fragile egos and juvenile minds can’t bear the thought of handing Trump a win. That reminds me, I’m out of popcorn.🍿🍿🤗
CC
It will be interesting to see who caves on this and when.
He’s doing exactly what he promised: draining the swamp. Did anyone really think that could happen without some pain? The federal government has grown far beyond what is sustainable, and reducing that size and power was never going to be painless.
The parasitic class (many/most of the Fed so-called and ill-named “workers”) deserve to be fired. Their grift is being a fed employee and doing little (if anything) to help US taxpayers/Citizens.
Most are over-paid, over-compensated and have too-generous benefit programs.
Their overinflated sense of self-worth, their arrogance and their insatiable appetite to waste taxpayers’ money on themselves and on bizarre projects around the world are what makes them pathetic parasites.
DoEnergy deals with nuclear stuff (along with a lot of BS)
But that doesn’t require a full department.
A mere Commission would be about right.
To deal with Atomic Energy.
We could call it the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ...
the greatest fear the politicians have is that we will notice, if the government shits down for an extended period, that everything goes on like usual, and they are not needed
They’ve been doing THAT for decades!
Not a damn thing ... except for a whole lot of engineers working for several years before 1999-12-31_235959 to make DAMN SURE nothing would happen.
You're welcome.
My thought as well.
Thanks indeed are called for. But the guy who figured out to just let the old computers think it was 1973 deserved a bonus.
CC
My proposal would also require adult supervision, so there is risk associated with it. But generally, the PO does well. Better to spend time and effort to get the VA and Tricare to operate as well as the PO.
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