That’s fitting. It’s almost Halloween. Unleash the ghosts.
Seems like the good news just keeps on coming...
Helps me take my mind off the fact I ain't gettin' paid...
My guess is that the throngs or so Beltway contractors who live off the government are also furloughed if they are not working on contracts that are not already funded. Maybe some of the funded ones, too.
A lot of these are support to government employees/agencies, but with the furloughs affecting the government employees, my experience in the past has been that the government employees shed contract employees first so they don’t get furloughed...
“I will add, as a fifth circumstance in the situation of the House of Representatives, restraining them from oppressive measures,
that they can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.
This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together.
It creates between them that communion of interests and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples;
but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.
If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves
and a particular class of the society?
I answer: the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant
and manly spirit which actuates the people of America — a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.
“If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people,
the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.”
[James Madison, THE FEDERALIST, No. 57]
Interesting quote from the article:
“It’s a self-sustaining, village-type ecosystem that supports the work of the legislative branch”
Which tells me that the author of the article hasn’t a clue. The Cancer that is our “Gubmint” is a Parasite, not an “Ecosystem”. Morons!
The top four US counties for income are Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Howard.
It may take a while to straighten all this out.
Box lunches instead of the usual buffet for the ‘RATS at their caucus meeting. Why any taxpayer-funded food at all? The Founders went to taverns and paid for their fare. Keep the scum hungry; shortens their plotting sessions.
Government Golf Courses still open.
MSM is still invested int pushing this as a bad thing
The likelihood though is that the Boehner supporters in the House will soon cave. If they would sit tight, people might (they probably are too dense, however) see that the shutdown affects very little. Not too many visit national parks in October. I feel sure though that Republican congressmen from Obama states will be the first to cave.
Interpretation: For once in a Blue Moon, there is room to walk/drive/breathe in the area.
good. “forced to shut off their blackberries”—such drama!
Finally, they found a way to slash costs and begin fiscal responsibility...close ‘em all down.
I wonder how long it will take to starve the beast?
Well since it is a ghost town.....lock the rest of them out and turn it into a museum. Make them all stay in their home state offices and telecommute. It all can be done from there.....in between the constituents banging on their doors daily.