Posted on 04/24/2017 3:23:49 PM PDT by mdittmar
AFGE president calls for Congress to pass budget to keep government open past April 28
WASHINGTON – J. David Cox Sr., national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the nation’s largest federal employee union, today called on Congress to pass a federal budget and keep the government open for business.
“Congress shouldn’t be playing chicken with funding federal programs and services that veterans, seniors, and other hardworking people rely on,” Cox said. “In a government shutdown, it’s the American people who pay the price.”
Unless Congress passes legislation to fund the government past April 28, when the current continuing resolution expires, federal agencies will be forced to shut down most operations.
“The casualties during a government shutdown are endless,” Cox said. “There will be no more federal loans issued to small businesses or new home buyers. Federal research into cures for cancer or other deadly diseases will abruptly end. No more applications will be accepted for new Social Security cards, veterans’ benefits, and housing assistance. Our national parks, monuments, and museums will be forced to close.”
Cox also called on Congress to reject a White House proposal to cut $18 billion from federal agency budgets this fiscal year.
“The administration wants to slash funding for programs that help Americans find affordable housing, protect our environment, educate our children, and deliver mental and public health services to millions,” Cox said. “Those who need our help the most would be hit the hardest by these cuts.”
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It’s the public that benefits from seeing how little value most of the US govt is to m8st Americans.
The biggest fear of government bureaucrats during a shut down is that they won’t be missed.
And if a shutdown is all the GOP gets done this year then that’s fine by me.
Last shutdown, they closed down the Mount Vernon parking lot, until they were told that the gubmint does not own George Washington’s home.
Not if its done responsibly. If Trump funds necessities and shuts down back office administration, then no one will even notice that the government is shut down. In the spirit of “never let a good crisis go to waste,” maybe he can use a shutdown to fire a bunch of redundant government workers.
If one were looking for a moocher or a looter or a rent-seeker this clown would be the epitome of such. Is there anything more useless than a govt union official?
These parasites see government as nothing more than an employer.
Hope it shut’s down (farce). I want Trump to tweet pointing out what is still being paid while “shut down” showing there really is NEVER a shutdown.
To hell with “the american people.” Government shutdowns save the U.S. taxpayers a lot of big bucks.
I don’t understand why we have to go through this crap all the time. I worked for NY State, and under Mario Cuomo, we never had a budget on time. The State still ran, and people were still paid. No services were interrupted during that time. They’d pay us in what they called “script”, but they were just like all the other checks we got, and the banks honored them.
Trump should have the Obama holdovers designate the non-essential workers who should stay home. Then, because even Obama’s people designate them non-essential, they should never be called back.
Just announce that there will be no back pay for the days that the government workers are out due to a shut down. The see how fast the dems move.
Let’s shut it down for a few years and find out. My guess is we save a lot of money.
Military issues aside, if patriots had been viligent with respect to preventing the unconstitutionally big federal government from overstepping its constitutionally limited powers, then all that citizens might notice during a federal government shutdown is a disruption in mail services (1.8.7).
In other words, most federal government domestic services are based on stolen state powers and state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes imo.
This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
“Is there anything more useless than a govt union official?”
Maybe, but I can’t think of anything.
Humanist clergy are even more useless and damaging.
Nations rise and fall into dust.
A human soul is eternal.
THERE WOULD NEVER BE A SHUTDOWN IF THE DEM FEDERAL EMPLOYEES KNEW TRUMP WON’T PAY THEM FOR NOT SHOWING UP TO WORK.
DEMS LIKE PAID VACATIONS FOR NOT WORKING. EVERY ONE OF THESE SHUTDOWNS DIDN’T COST THE UNIONS EMPLOYEES PAY.
GOP WILL BE BLAMED BUT THAT WILL BE THE LAST SHUTDOWN IF DEMOCRATES WORKING FOR US KNOW THE SCAM IS OVER.
SHUT IT DOWN! Leave it Shut Down. In a couple of months we might see just how little we actually need.
I will not miss any of it
GFY, union jerkoff.
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