The downside is that the executive will make sure that my parents don’t get a social security check, veterans get no healthcare, and deployed soldiers get no pay and no way to get back home to their families.
This has happened before. As long as Obama can do whatever lawless crap he wants, he can punish the vulnerable. He’s literally got the nation taken hostage.
That's the price to be paid for anyone who puts their delusional faith in a Federal government that has no legal or moral right to exist as it does right now.
You'll note that this country was much more true to its founding principles when there were no Social Security checks, no "healthcare for veterans," and no major military campaigns in Third World sh!t-holes for decades at a time.