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Posted on 01/03/2019 1:16:39 PM PST by Jim Robinson
1) Hold the line for as long as it takes until the pledged wall is funded while also upholding pledge not to sign another bloated spending bill, ie, my counter offer is this: Nothing. Plus you will pay for the wall and you will cut government and you will cut spending.
2) Do not allow the congress to raise the debt limit. Make them live within the funds available, reallocate from 'nonessential' areas to essential only. Return functions that cannot be paid for that are not delegated to the federal government by the constitution to the states and the people per the 10th amendment.
When will there ever be a better opportunity? As long as the president abides by his two pledges mentioned above and Madam Pelosi holds to her threats, the nonessential departments stay closed and spending stays down accordingly.
Hold the line!
The Repubs loose this and they really are not worth voting for.
Ever.
It really is not complicated. Since there is no need to compromise there should be no compromise.
“1) Hold the line for as long as it takes until the pledged wall is funded while also upholding pledge not to sign another bloated spending bill, ie, my counter offer is this: Nothing.”
Give them “Nothing” Bump!
Only Trump is capable of this, all other republicans would have withered and given in long ago.
I can’t imagine what it’s like to be him right now.
DITTO!
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But of course she will, or come up with new ones.
She's more full of Pelosi than any other motivation.
It's not like she has anything else going for her.
The supposed adopted PayGo plan for entitlement programs the dems have touted-— step number two would require them to defund useless “entitlement” programs to be able to support the programs they want to emphasize.
The list of continuing useless wastes of permanent entitlement programs is quite long. Published in the GAO somewhere— buried probably.
Step two could reduce the “kickback” funds dems have been getting for their party for decades. Sounds good. Will watch with interest as they abandon PayGo, as a response to true fiscal discipline. Pay down the debt with any “loose” funds (in the billions).
Absolutely. When times get hard the rest of us have to regroup, set new priorities, and reallocate what limited funds are available. They should have to do the same for a change. No more blank checks.
Would be nice but Trump didn't mean 'Build the Wall' anymore than he did 'Lock Her Up'.
In the next 30 days a 'crisis' will make it 'necessary' to fund the government without Wall funding and Trump will sign it.
A question: My understanding is that essential employees still have to report to work, I thought they were also paid but recently heard they are not (though they will receive back pay when the budget passes). How long do we expect that essential employees can go without pay before they have to find other jobs? I’m not talking about the people we could do without but the first responders, military, etc. - people that actually make the government work and are worthwhile.
I suggest the Senate take up the House Bill, add 5.6 Billion for the wall, and send it back to the House. Takes away talking points from the RATs
My 2nd favorite Toto song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htgr3pvBr-I
1st? 99
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhw-XlTMB5I
I think if the congress refuses to fund the ‘nonessential’ parts of the government, it would probably be possible for the chief executive to follow their lead by shuttering those departments and permanently laying off the employees.
President Trump must do it Bump!
I still think that face needs to be photoshopped onto Sgt. Schultz.
What I heard on Fox (I believe) was that the essentials were not being paid and that bothers me. The non-essentials I really don’t care about, leave it closed until the wall is funded, then evaluate their usefulness and get rid the whole bunch.
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