One small point that everyone seems to have overlooked - and I wish the conservative pundits would discuss this - is an observation about the death benefits for our fallen vets.
My first reaction was outrage. Then I found out that Fisher House (one of my favorite charitable organizations) stepped in to take care of the situation. I am still outraged by 0vomit’s schemes, by his smarmy reaction to getting caught, and by how he dealt with it, but my second reaction was that this proves how little we need the government.
What we need to hammer home is that America works just fine without the federal government. Real Americans step up and take care of what needs to be taken care of. We need the federal government for very little.
Despite 0vomit doing his best to hurt us during the shutdown, all he accomplished was to irritate, annoy, and enrage people. He was like a small boy poking at a hornet’s nest.
Not only can we take care of ourselves, we can do it much more effectively, efficiently, and cheaply than the government can. The government, especially the federal government, needs to get out of the education business and the charity (welfare) business. Along with getting out of the direct welfare business, they need to get out of the indirect welfare business which consists of creating overpaid do-nothing jobs for the politically connected and for the low info dem voters.
We had no one making the point often enough to sell it, but we Republicans offered to fund every jot and tittle of government and its programs but for Obamacare.
In return, we got a refusal from the Arrogant in Chief to fund government at all, without Obamacare.
Plus, the media in a grand act of total tranference blamed the whole Obama shutdown on Republicans, as he sat cherry picking the most heinous defunding targets, of which the veterans was one of the worst.
This, in the face of an immediate Republican bill to exempt all military defunding damages.
RINOS reject what America used to value, as your comment suggests.
Fighting comes before anything is restored, and the temperature has been reached to do that, as the thread title expresses. Thx.