Shut Down

[Gman]

I have a wild idea. Why doesn't Congress come up with a NEW budget, rather than just agreeing on a continuing resolution and appropriations based on the last real budget that's 16 years old?

It is, after all, one of the few things they have a Constitutional duty to perform. Why there are no consequences and the governed just put up with it, is beyond me.

[merl]

I fully understand how much you guys hate all of us but 3 combat vets were let go today in my shop. 2 of them are board members. Just a thought since it seems that many of you seem to think we all should just put a gun in our mouth and pull the trigger because of things we have no control over. Have a nice day.

Folks getting paid by the government should be providing a benefit to the majority of people paying them. If we're paying you we should be doing it for our benefit. I don't consider tying red tape in neat bows or determining who to send tax money to a benefit. Thats the view I and many others have of gov employes, perhaps because we have little interaction and therefore see little benefit.

[roberth]

I fully understand how much you guys hate all of us but 3 combat vets were let go today in my shop. 2 of them are board members. Just a thought since it seems that many of you seem to think we all should just put a gun in our mouth and pull the trigger because of things we have no control over. Have a nice day.

I don't control where they choose to spend money.

The clowns in charge chose to spend my tax dollars on welfare recipients, not on your guys. I'd rather see your guys working than some illegal alien getting another free meal. You can't blame us for that one.

There are 2 enormous problems with the federal government, one is the onerous tax burden carried by 50 percent of eligible taxpayers and the second is the distribution of those funds to groups and people that did nothing to earn them.

[jerrymrc]

Folks getting paid by the government should be providing a benefit to the majority of people paying them. If we're paying you we should be doing it for our benefit. I don't consider tying red tape in neat bows or determining who to send tax money to a benefit. Thats the view I and many others have of gov employes, perhaps because we have little interaction and therefore see little benefit.

Don't interact with the public. All I do is take care of the troops. I also try and save your tax $$$ from contractors and salesmen that think the .gov is nothing but something to try and take advantage of for their own gain.

Just like many subjects people seem to have a view that one = all. This has come up before and it always reminds me of some KKK lynch mob. In my little world all this has done is to take away support and services for the soldiers and there families. Those of us remaining will do the best we can. I will just leave it at that.

I have issues with some .gov agency's as well. I just got my tax return yesterday that was filed on time. Should I go on a rant about all govt workers should be fired? So one person has an issue with a car repair should we all go out and find the first dealership and kill all the mechanics?

Just a thought as I will abstain from further posting on the topic.

[Gman]

I must have missed the posts that said that government employees should be killed.

[tmleadr03]

Oops, shut down.

[cstone]

If interest rates on government borrowing goes up, the amount of money left for the federal government to operate goes down. When the FedRes stops buying debt, that interest rate will go up. Depending on how much the rate goes up, there may not be enough money to pay any federal employees.

At that point, there won't be any money left to pay for anything but the debt that We the People have accrued.

The funding of the ACA and the debt ceiling are small beans compared to the future we face.

Be safe.

[cstone]

Oops, shut down.

There is a trick to opening that door from the Rose Garden into the Oval Office.

[buffalobo]

There is a trick to opening that door from the Rose Garden into the Oval Office.

He can call Bill for the trick.

[cstone]

He can call Bill for the trick.

There is a little Butler's pantry between the Oval Office and the President's private office. It is very small, but apparently just big enough for two people and a cigar.