Posted on 04/24/2017 7:52:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
That is absolutely correct, of course. I wasn’t as clear as I meant to be.
It’s like you were reading my FReeperBrain while I posted!
:)
It won’t be the Democrats, it’ll be the GOPe, never Trumpers, who turn up their noses at the American people.
The same jackwagons that gave Barry Everything he wanted , and more.
That would be great... the government (as it is) is TOOOOOO wasteful.
There is a tremendous amount of mismanagement, duplication of effort, lack of accountability.... etc.
Time for a hair cut
If this happens. I hope he turns the management of all federal managed lands over to the states. That is-the USFS. Park Service, BLM and National Monuments.
The only area he can NOT turn back to the states is in DC.
He should turn it over to the states.
Most low information voters probably didn’t even know there WAS a shutdown...*LOL*
Good point - that should have been the first question in the survey, and if the answer was "didn't know" then the answer to "how much effect" would have been a given.
Shut down the damn government and clean house once and for all. This country would get by very nicely with 1/2 of the current work force.
What would be ideal is to somehow rid ourselves of the public employee union under this. Until we can get that destroyed the american people are at a huge disadvantage.
One can dream.
FR’s LS has another way of looking at a government shutdown. Thanks LS..
Trump Wins YUGE in a Government Shutdown
American Spectator ^ | April 24, 2017, 12:04 am | LARRY SCHWEIKART
Posted on 4/23/2017, 11:51:36 PM by Behind Liberal Lines
We’re looking at a possible government shutdown next Saturday, and that’s got some conservatives nervous. They shouldn’t be. Admittedly, past government shutdowns — or threats of shutdowns — have worked against conservatives. With Trump, however, it would likely be a different story....
even a partial shutdown plays precisely into the Trump agenda and his campaign promises of draining the swamp. Trump’s base, as well as “swing voters” who are fed up with out of control spending, would, of course, be cheered by such a move. Moreover, such a shutdown plays into Trump’s hands by giving him every excuse to slash funding to “sanctuary cities,” to bloated university programs, to global warming science grants, and on and on. Social Security checks will continue, the military will be funded, and necessary services will hum along while grants to study the sex life of the fruit bat will not. Deep State bureaucrats who so depend on the federal government for their very existence would be the ones most hurt. In short, Trump can not only make even a partial shutdown look like the Democrats’ fault but shield many of the (normally) loudest voices from the pain.
More important, every minute the bloated government is shut down reinforces the perception of Trump as a businessman who cuts the fat, extracts more efficiency, and makes the U.S. government more like a business. Unlike the Clinton/Gingrich shutdown battle, the control over what sectors of the government get their money is in the hands of a Republican president, not a Democrat who held up funds on the most visible and sympathetic programs. Trump would relish starving all the non-essential offices like PBS and NPR or global-warming science grants.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3546739/posts
This is the lunacy we have faced, breathing the same air with `rats:
http://www.climatedepot.com/2017/01/17/days-before-trump-takes-office-obama-gives-500-million-to-un-green-climate-fund/
“Days before Trump takes office, Obama gives another $500 million to UN Green Climate Fund”
Maximum Leader Barry writes a couple checks on the US Treasury giving the UN a cool billion to fight a non-existent problem somewhere else: global warming in 3rd world countries. (All the while spending money hand-over-fist importing 3rd worlders into America as fast as he could.)
President Trump has to fight like a tiger for the same amount in order to do his job and secure the states from foreign invasion, while his party sits by with their thumbs up their butts.
Absolutely as painless as possible. Make the govt seem absolutely unnecessary.
government does not own the national parks... the people do... so if the government cannot man the booths to collect money from visitors, then it is free... the government cannot keep people out, just because they are not there.
Keep the filibuster
BUT
No more of this gentlemanly "I announce a filibuster" BS. McConnell ought to make them actually filibuster like James Stewart did in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington".
...and shut off the water
...and lock the bathroom doors.
Thats what I said.
But, he cant turn anything within the bounds of the District of Columbia over because that is within the ten mile square area mentioned in the constitution.
Yeah, you did, and I agreed with you sts.
The Republicans are always blamed for the government shutdown. When in fact it is the demonrats who shut the government down. This is factual
Arrgh, I can’t stand that stupid word “YUGE” it should be banned
Seem rather like the Stamp Act, when people couldn’t get married or anything else because they couldn’t get an official stamp.
Worked out real well for them that time, of course, but we are more timid these days, what with the NDAA and all. Your solution is the rational and arguably most precedented one.
“the mayor would have led the gang, but Boston weren’t a city”
(great song, btw)
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