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Posted on 02/25/2015 2:37:01 PM PST by Nachum
(CNSNews.com)- House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said on the House floor on Tuesday that if Congress did not pass a Department of Homeland Security funding bill by the end of the week, it would shut down the department—but that 200,000 of the department’s 230,000 employees would still go to work.
The other 30,000 employees are not deemed “essential” workers.
“The Department of Homeland Security will not be funded,” said Hoyer. “There are 230,000 people who work at that Department, and 30,000 of them, mostly administrative personnel, will be laid off. The others, known as critically important important—essential employees who are on the front line—will work, but they won’t get paid.
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Why doesn’t Big Media point out that it is the DEMOCRATS threatening to shut down the Government??? Oh, wait........
They would ostentatious slow visible work, and everyone would get paid.
And the 30K NOT working WILL STILL GET PAID!
Even a shut down isn’t a real shut down. I was hoping it would all shut down.
Pay me the 200,000 employee’s worth of salaries for a year and I can fix the DHS.
Knowing there are more than 200,000 people working there is just depressing. I realize that a lot of these folks are from agencies like FEMA that go absorbed by DHS, but 200,000+ ??? Really?
(well, maybe..., but if they aren't needed, let 'em go.)
Department of Homeland Security did not exist until after 9/11
Now there are hundreds of thousands of people working there!!
I say we should have HP handle the firing.
50,000 are Coast Guard.
Figuring that every large bureaucracy is over staffed by at least 30 percent, DHS shouldn’t have a problem.
We just need to abolish the department!!!!!!!!!
Work?
Oh, you mean sitting at their desks surfing for porn.
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Is Obama trying to blackmail and create so much panic in the American people and Republicans in Congress that Congress will have no choice but to fund the Homeland Security bill stalled in Congress?
(Obama is such a two-faced hypocrite. On the one hand, he tries to reassure us that ISIS is a jayvee team, and so, according to Obama and his thugs, they really pose no true threat to the United States homeland, while, on the other hand, Obama----in order to try to get his version of the Homeland Security bill passed that grants all types of freebies instantly to 4 to 10 million illegals----warns us of terrible things that terrorists will do to us if Congress doesn't give Homeland Security everything it wants, such as broad powers to hand illegals all kinds of goodies like work permits and access to benefits like Social Security. )
Obama's blackmail attempt goes something like this:
1. Obama says: If you don't fund Homeland Security for the next year by giving it all the money it says it needs to fight terrorism---everyone knows that Obama is referring to Islamic terrorists, but he won't use the word "Islamic". What an idiot---terrorists will run wild over the United States, attacking such sites as malls and other buildings to the point that Americans will live in constant fear and terror for their lives.
2. On the other hand, according to Obama's blackmail attempt, if you give Homeland Security all the money it says it needs to fight terrorism, and, at the same time, also give it money and unlimited power to give 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to such things as work permits, housing, and benefits like Social Security, the United States will be a much safer and greater nation forever and ever. What a bunch of horse manure.
3. Hogwash: I say Hogwash. I say that it will slowly destroy the United States as we know it if we give Homeland Security broad powers to quickly process 4 to 10 million illegal aliens so that the illegals have instant access to such things as jobs, housing and benefits like Social Security.
Giving all those illegals all that they demand will do more irreversible and lasting damage to our towns and cities than any terrorists' attacks will ever do.
4. To Republican Congressmen: I say that we take our chances with terrorists. That is, I say that we take our chances for the next year that terrorist attacks will not be as terrible as Obama and his thugs paint them out to be, if, according to Obama, we don't give Homeland Security all the money it needs to fight terrorism and to legalize 4 to 10 + million illegals and those so-called "Dreamers".
(I believe it is safe to say that most illegals don't care about Islamic terrorists. In fact, I doubt if many illegals have any idea what Islam and ISIS are about. They are probably puzzled why Americans are so scared of this ISIS, a group far, far away on another continent nobody cares about. They only care about themselves. And the rest of America be damned.)
5. The following is more threatening to the United States way of life than terrorist attacks: Giving 4 to 10 million illegals easy and instant access to jobs and benefits like Social Security will destroy more of the United States as we know it than any ISIS terrorists attacks ever will.
6. To the Republicans in Congress: Don't fall for Obama's blackmail attempt as he tries to persuade you to pass the Homeland Security bill the way he wants you to pass it.
7. Handing Homeland Security almost unlimited broad powers this year to give 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to jobs and to such social benefits as Social Security benefits without a fight would be a horrible mistake, because such a surrender will do more severe damage to what we know as the American way of life than any ISIS terrorist attack that may hit the United States in the next year.
8. Again, I hope that Congress does not surrender to Obama's blackmail attempt when it comes to this horrible Homeland Security bill that gives Homeland Security almost unlimited powers to legalize 4 to 10+ million illegal aliens.
Knowing what we’ve learned about them in the last few weeks, there are NO essential DHS workers. Send them all hiome. Eliminate the department!!!
Why doesn’t Big Media point out that it is the DEMOCRATS threatening to shut down the Government??? Oh, wait.......
Not to worry Cruz just voted to keep it open.
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