Posted on 12/24/2020 5:16:55 AM PST by Kaslin
In late September, Congress passed a bill to keep the government funded at current levels through this Friday. Trump has refused to sign the comprehensive funding bill tied to providing new $600 stimulus checks to qualifying Americans. It’s clear that they don’t have much time to resolve their disagreements and pass a law President Trump will support.
Most likely, they will pass another extension, but Trump has already signaled he would rather use a pocket veto and let the next president handle the issue than sign a bill he can’t support. Such a standoff risks a government shutdown if a solution cannot be passed and signed.
President Trump has had three shutdowns in his term as president, the longest being 35 days between December 2018 and January 2019 over the issue of funding for the border wall. That shutdown forced about 800,000 federal government workers to go on furlough without pay. If an extension is not passed to avoid a shutdown, thousands of government workers considered nonessential would again be furloughed or forced to work without pay until the shutdown ends.
Government leaders love to say how they experience our pain for the lockdowns generated in many Democrat controlled states and cities during the COVID Pandemic restrictions. Many Americans have lost jobs; some have lost their businesses. Government workers can talk as though they understand, but they’ve had no cuts in salary or their retirement plans. They have been insulated from the consequences of their own actions.
Our republic was formed to protect individual citizens from government overreach and control, but now, we see a bloated government with protected bureaucrats calling on extending restrictions on citizens. While citizens suffer, the federal government just increases the federal deficit and prints more money. Government workers lose nothing; they continue to be paid at current levels. The incoming administration has the audacity to talk about increasing taxes on the citizens who have been already paying the price for their restrictive controls they’ve had in place since the Spring.
State and local governments do not have the ability to sustain deficit spending; they need the consent of the governed to raise taxes to support more spending. That is why municipal, county and state governments are in a big hurt; they have depleted revenue due to the economic restrictions they have put in place. They are looking to Washington to bail out their largesse, and President Biden and the Democrats promise to do just that.
What does that mean? Democrats will try to make citizens from the responsible states pay for the overspending of the irresponsible states like New York and California. Biden has promised to unify our country when and if he takes office, but such actions will only further divide America. It will infuriate citizens who have fled Democrat-controlled states for such irresponsible spending.
A government shutdown may just be the blessing America needs to let government workers know what losing a job and a paycheck means. If they experienced a shutdown for 8 months, they just might finally “feel our pain” up close and personal.
Currently, government workers have no skin in the game. There is no shared sacrifice. When any shutdown furlough ends, they’re usually paid retroactively for what income they lost. What do our citizens get for having their businesses closed and their jobs lost—$600 or maybe $1,200. Citizens will get crumbs and the promise of higher taxes.
President Trump came to Washington to take on the swamp. It put up more of a fight than expected. In fact, if the results of this election stand, the swamp will have won. The Biden administration has no plan to cut back the size of government. No, his plan is to feed the beast and free it to take control of more of your life.
Could we shut down government for two years until the mid-term elections? Unfortunately, probably not.
Good idea. Methinks “elites”/totalitarians don’t care either way. Heads they win, tails we lose.
If the Federal Government shuts down, they will still get a paycheck anyhow. Not like the American people who pay for their paycheck.
Legislators live in a much different world than the average citizen. They get paid regardless of what they do.
They are all multi millionaires and will get back pay. Not a 650 dollar check. They got a much bigger one. Not sure if it was right or not but someone said they were getting over 100k out of the stimulus. If that’s true they need to be thrown out of office.
23 Dec: Breitbart: Eric Clapton Sings Anti-Lockdown Song; Trolls Mock His Dead Kid
by James Delingpole
What exactly is wrong with writing and singing a protest song calling for more freedom?
Plenty, apparently, if your names are Van Morrison and Eric Clapton. Their anti-lockdown song “Stand and Deliver” — which Morrison wrote and Clapton performs — has attracted so much bile and outrage from the radical left you’d think they’d just performed a benefit gig for the Ku Klux Klan...
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/12/23/delingpole-eric-clapton-sings-anti-lockdown-song-trolls-mock-his-dead-kid/
24 Dec: Summit News: CORONAVIRUSAirline Officially Launches COVID Passport Ahead Of “Global Deployment”
“The experience gained helps prepare for the eventual global deployment of the Travel Pass”
by Steve Watson
Singapore Airlines has become the first carrier to officially launch a COVID passport, which will display the vaccination status and COVID test results of passengers.
The airline announced that its ‘digital health verification process’ is the first in the world to be modelled on the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Travel Pass framework...
https://summit.news/2020/12/24/airline-officially-launches-covid-passport-ahead-of-global-deployment/
23 Dec: Summit News: WHO Changes Definition of “Herd Immunity” to Eliminate Pre-COVID Consensus
Asserts that herd immunity can only occur via vaccination.
by Paul Joseph Watson
https://summit.news/2020/12/23/who-changes-definition-of-herd-immunity-to-eliminate-pre-covid-consensus/
19 Dec: American Institute for Economic Research: Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus: The Evidence
by AIER Staff
The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a science experiment in real time, with most of the human population used as lab rats. The costs are legion...
Much of the following list has been put together by data engineer Ivor Cummins, who has waged a year-long educational effort to upend intellectual support for lockdowns. AIER has added its own and the summaries. The upshot is that the virus is going to do as viruses do, same as always in the history of infectious disease. We have extremely limited control over them, and that which we do have is bound up with time and place. Fear, panic, and coercion are not ideal strategies for managing viruses. Intelligence and medical therapeutics fare much better...
https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/
The best part of pocket veto is a CR to keep Gov’t open, would keep the FY 2020 budget at 2019 CR levels. This would be a massive defeat for Pelosi - which must be on Trump’s mind.
Nice post. Saw a video the other day of a politician or someone getting there vaccination and there was nothing in the syringe.
They get an impromptu paid vacation. Citizens get serviced even less than usual.
Now, a shutdown without pay I could support. But that won't happen since the government class owns one political party outright and large parts of the other.
Since the lockdowns, etc., are instigated by state and local governments, exactly what will a federal government shutdown accomplish? Wrong target. Now, how are you going to get democrat governors and mayors to shutdown their governments?
The probelm with the government shutdown is that, no matter how long it lasts, the politicians and DeepStaters get their backpay when the shutdown ends.
Well, unlike the feds, state and local governments cannot print more money to pay the bills. When state and local revenues are down, they can't pay to keep people employed.
Yes, a shutdown that also means no inauguration of a fraudulently elected president until a FULL review of every state’s voting process is completed so it will set a precedent for dealing with this fraud in the future!
NO changes of any kind, other than the resignation of worthless cabinet members who have not done their jobs according to what the Constitution demands.
Time for the President to shut off the water to the Congressional building over the holidays to fix that ‘water leak’ and scan for Chinese ‘bugs’ in Democrat offices. Might have to turn the heat off for the bug scan on Dec. 28 ...
ALL those ‘furloughed’ Federal workers got all that pay when they came back to work.
NONE lost a dime...
How about an airtight lockdown for good measure.
Stop their G.D..paychecks.
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