Posted on 10/03/2013 12:03:58 PM PDT by djf
Government Shutdown? 36 Facts Which Prove That Almost Everything Is Still Running
By Michael Snyder, on October 2nd, 2013
All of this whining and crying about a "government shutdown" is a total joke. You see, there really is very little reason why this "government shutdown" cannot continue indefinitely because almost everything is still running. 63 percent of all federal workers are still working, and 85 percent of all government activities are still being funded during this "shutdown". Yes, the Obama administration has been making a big show of taking down government websites and blocking off the World War II Memorial, but overall business in Washington D.C. is being conducted pretty much as usual. It turns out that the definition of "essential personnel" has expanded so much over the years that almost everyone is considered "essential" at this point. In fact, this shutdown is such a non-event that even referring to it as a "partial government shutdown" would really be overstating what is actually happening. The following are 36 facts which prove that almost everything is still running during this government shutdown...
#1 According to U.S. Senator Rand Paul, 85 percent of all government activities are actually being funded during this "government shutdown".
#2 Approximately 1,350,000 "essential" federal employees will continue to work during this "government shutdown".
#3 Overall, 63 percent of the federal workforce will continue to work during this "government shutdown".
#4 The U.S. Postal Service will continue to deliver our mail.
#5 U.S. military personnel will remain on duty and will continue to get paid.
#6 Social Security recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#7 Medicare recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#8 Medicaid recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#9 Food stamp recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#10 Those on unemployment will continue to get their benefits.
#11 Federal retirees will continue to get their pensions.
#12 The federal school lunch program has enough money to go through at least the end of this month.
#13 Public schools all over the country will continue to stay open.
#14 Almost all federal law enforcement officials will continue working.
#15 The Federal Reserve will remain "completely functional".
#16 The Supreme Court will continue to operate normally and federal courts have enough money to keep going for at least two weeks.
#17 TSA employees will continue to molest travelers at our airports.
#18 Air traffic controllers will continue to monitor traffic at our airports.
#19 Hopelessly outmanned border patrol agents will continue to try to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
Thanks to the mods!
I wasn’t sure if the whole title would fit, so I shortened it...
I was thinking about it last night because the news reported 800,000 people out of work.
But anybody who follows things will tell you FedGov employment is in the neighborhood of 2 1/2 to 3 Million.
So the only conclusion you can come to is basically, it’s what’s referred to as “Non-essential” personnel.
Hacks me off because the news and all the uproar about closing down the WWII Memorial, and the Jefferson Memorial, that kind of things.
Those things BELONG TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT THE BELTWAY BUREAUCRATS!!
You must feel the pain (even if it is manufactured)so that you can see how evil Conservatives are....
Note that if the unconstitutionally big federal government was actually constitutionally compliant, then nearly every fact listed by the referenced article should be justifiable under a numbered constitutional statute, particularly those listed under Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
But the sad truth of the unconstitutionally big federal government is that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for little else beyond military, post office services and federal employee benefits. Federal government services based on anything beyond the scope of those three categories, such as social security and medicaid, are likely based on 10th Amendment protected states powers and associated state revenues which corrupt Congress has wrongly stolen from the states.
I wonder if Helicopter Ben is still getting paid...
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#15 The Federal Reserve will remain “completely functional”.
But they shut down commissaries. And they cut staff at the Army hospital in Hawaii. So healthcare for the military and their families WHICH THEY PAY FOR is unimportant to Obama.
Of course.
Silly me, what was I thinking?
The FedRes is a private NGO.
Jobs report, normally issued tomorrow, is not coming out due to shutdown.
NSA Snoops will continue reading you e-mail.
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