Did Anybody Notice The Government Shutdown?
Jan 26, 2019 16:42:24 #
Crayons
Loc: St Jo, Texas
Liberty Tree wrote:
I personally was not affected but I know some members of the Coast Guard who were hurt by not getting paid.
Yeah, I know that crowd...I've told some of em they should try n' save their money...it's not what ya make, it's what ya keep....On the other hand I don't feel sorry for any non-essential gooberworker...most never could make it in the real world
Jan 26, 2019 16:45:08 #
Crayons wrote:
On the other hand I don't feel sorry for any non-essential gooberworker...most never could make it in the real world
Name any other employer in the world who has 'non-essential' employees.
Jan 26, 2019 16:45:11 #
Crayons wrote:
Yeah, I know that crowd...I've told some of em they should try n' save their money...it's not what ya make, it's what ya keep....On the other hand I don't feel sorry for any non-essential gooberworker...most never could make it in the real world
It is hard on the lower rank ones just starting out.
Jan 26, 2019 17:22:59 #
Larry the Legend wrote:
Serious question: The Federal government was part... (show quote)
nope...understatement intentional
Jan 26, 2019 17:25:00 #
Tried to tell the lefties...gave them every heads-up and they wouldn't believe me.
Jan 26, 2019 17:26:18 #
EL
Loc: Massachusetts
Larry the Legend wrote:
Name any other employer in the world who has 'non-essential' employees.
Or who pays their employees when they're sorta laid off.
Jan 26, 2019 17:26:20 #
Jan 26, 2019 17:27:48 #
EL wrote:
Or who pays their employees when they're sorta laid off.
This will come back later. Never fear. This was a fact-finding expedition as much as anything.
Only good can come.
Jan 26, 2019 17:31:54 #
Liberty Tree wrote:
It is hard on the lower rank ones just starting out.
If Americans worked low paying jobs like I did in Dutch Harbor everyone's wages would go up along with prices, unemployment would go down, the cost of illegal criminals would go down and the market would be less distorted.
There's no bad in what I just said in a single sentence.
Let the long winded fkrs try to debunk me.
Jan 26, 2019 17:32:31 #
padremike
Loc: Phenix City, Al
woodguru wrote:
My wife has two veterinary clinics, she gets a pretty good read on how things like gas prices and shutdowns affect people's money. This will increase the number of people that ask her to take post dated checks.
She talks to the animals to get updates on gas prices? Do the 800,000 furloughed for only 35 days government employees give more post dated checks than the 25 million criminal i*****l a***ns who invaded our sovereign nation? Just curious?
Jan 26, 2019 17:58:46 #
Larry the Legend wrote:
Serious question: The Federal government was part... (show quote)
For me, part of being a patriotic citizen is to care about what happens to everyone in our country (whether I agree with their politics or not).
So even though I was not personally impacted for these reasons:
- I am not a government employee
- I do not work for a government contractor
- I did not travel during the shutdown
I was still deeply disturbed by the shutdown and the impact it had on other individuals and the economy as a whole. Not to mention the dictatorial way so many people were held hostage (unsuccessfully) to the whims of the president and, by extension, his political base. A pretty low point in our democracy, in my opinion.
Jan 26, 2019 18:02:32 #
PaulPisces wrote:
For me, part of being a patriotic citizen is to ca... (show quote)
NO!!!!!!!!!!
YOUR PARTY IS JUST AS GUILTY!!
Jan 26, 2019 18:04:26 #
B
Spot on observations, all told. If anything, it should serve as an indicator that the government could do with some amount of downsizing, especially since there are so many new private sector jobs that need filling.
Larry the Legend wrote:
Serious question: The Federal government was part... (show quote)
Spot on observations, all told. If anything, it should serve as an indicator that the government could do with some amount of downsizing, especially since there are so many new private sector jobs that need filling.
Jan 26, 2019 18:20:08 #
PaulPisces wrote:
I was still deeply disturbed by the shutdown and the impact it had on other individuals and the economy as a whole.
What impact on the economy? Was there a crash or something that I missed? Do you really believe that government going out of business for a few weeks is enough to bring the greatest economic engine in the history of the world to a grinding halt?
PaulPisces wrote:
Not to mention the dictatorial way so many people were held hostage (unsuccessfully) to the whims of the president and, by extension, his political base.
One: There was nothing 'dictatorial' about it. The President is the head of the executive branch. He has a sworn responsibility to secure the borders whether they be north, south, east or west. He asked Congress to support him in that endeavor and was rebuffed. This was not a 'whim', it was a responsible leader bringing attention to a problem that needed more attention than it was getting due to some rather childish people who have no business being on positions of power. Nobody was 'held hostage' or even threatened with such a fate.
PaulPisces wrote:
A pretty low point in our democracy, in my opinion.
Agreed. If we had a democracy. It's actually a representative republic, but the sentiment is a valid one. If only there were better educated and more responsible people in congress, this would never have happened.
Jan 26, 2019 18:21:14 #
PaulPisces wrote:
For me, part of being a patriotic citizen is to ca... (show quote)
Ah, a "progressive." San Francisco, no less.
Your very own Nancy Pelosi and her faithful hound, Chuck Schumer, were as, if not more, responsible for the shutdown.
As pointed out elsewhere I will point it out one more time: in the course of things, Republicans tried to pass bills TWICE that would have paid federal employees during the shutdown. Pelosi and her Dems rejected these bills because they needed some people to suffer. They needed hostages. And then the Dems wanted to go home or take vacations rather than negotiate, because to you people those you don't personally know are nothing but meat to be moved around and manipulated for political gain.
So twist events all you wish, anyone with an IQ of 8 knows that "progressives" embrace lies as a means to an end: if you people told the t***h about what you want this country to become, the American people would have absolutely no use for any of it.
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