Posted on 10/02/2025 12:02:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Democrats have shut down the government because they’re putting illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens.
Do not listen to Chuck Schumer or any of his allies in the corporate media when they spin about this critical point. As Vice President JD Vance correctly points out: “It’s not something that we made up. It’s not a talking point. It is in the text of the bill that they initially gave to us to reopen the government.”
The Dems nuked a near-term CR budget fix because they insisted on taxpayer-funded healthcare for foreign migrants who do not even belong in America, and no longer have legal status here, under President Trump’s leadership.
So, here we are. We didn’t ask for this fight. But in politics – and in life – sometimes the fight comes to you, and you have no choice but to engage. In this case, if the Trump administration pursues the correct, and totally legal, agenda, then we can make the Democrats regret ever going down this path. In other words, “Dems, don’t threaten us with a good time!”
It is time to counterpunch, and not mildly. Rather, it’s time for a Floyd “Money” Mayweather approach to politics and policy. The Democrats just flung the door open for the America First movement to make good on the promises of the 2024 campaign, to truly reshape, resize, and remake government in permanent ways that can benefit Americans for decades to come.
The main mechanism, of course, is mass firings. Not temporary furloughs of unnecessary federal bureaucrats, mind you, but rather a thorough, legal, lasting deck cleaning. Saying a permanent goodbye to legions of non-critical federal workers, that kind of action represents the “Mayweather” punch back at the radical Democrats. It is not some wild, purely reactionary defensive salvo, but rather a...
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There have been a couple of posts about how Trump can’t lay off people because of this or that. I’m thinking that even if there are some legal gotchas Trump’s entire life has been in finding and exploiting loopholes. I truly believe that the gargantuan federal workforce and all the additional money that forces us to spend is holding back the economy that the rest of us worker drones have to survive on. Get rid of this Trillian dollar sea anchor and the rest of us have a chance to buy homes and save for retirement.
Politicians from coast to coast used the funds to prop up their own businesses, buy themselves houses and cars and take lavish vacations.
The USSC has already ruled that the president may trim the federal workforce. The rest are just details.
It’s not a reduction in force (RIF) it’s removing incompetent feeders (RIF) from the government trough.
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