30+ days so trump can impliment RIF and essentially lay off large amounts of unnecessary federal employees...
Do you think that is the Actual Agenda, the reason for what looks like madness ?
I guess that would be called, Method to the Madness ?
I think a RIF in many departments would benefit the USA general public. How about a 95% reduction at the DEA ? And maybe a 90% reduction at the ATF.
Do you think that is the Actual Agenda, the reason for what looks like madness ?
I guess that would be called, Method to the Madness ?
I think a RIF in many departments would benefit the USA general public. How about a 95% reduction at the DEA ? And maybe a 90% reduction at the ATF.
Aren't most federal government workers Democrats?
And by extension, they may not have to give anybody money, and I’m sure I’m not the only one here on Social Security. It remains to be seen whether payments go through. If they don’t, we’ll learn what 50,000,000 super-mad old people are like.While its shut down - you won't have to give them any money -
And by extension, they may not have to give anybody money, and I’m sure I’m not the only one here on Social Security. It remains to be seen whether payments go through. If they don’t, we’ll learn what 50,000,000 super-mad old people are like.
Social Security is a slippery slope to be on. The current system is unsustainable. One of the biggest political financial disasters of all time. Unfortunately many past working generations were roped into a fraud and now it’s rob Peter to pay Paul knowing full well Peter is getting bent the fuck over with ZERO possibilities of ever being paid back. Going to have to overhaul the system as a whole. But Trump did make sure finances were set aside for food stamps (or whatever cute term is used today).
“What if I told you...” that all that crap about what’s wrong with Social Security is a deliberate lie, intended to increase public distrust in government? Just like the lie that we can give trillions to our already-well-compensated ruling class and then demand the rest of the nation tighten belts to pay for it?
Agreed.
I like to let Karl Denninger rant about Social Security & Health Care for me.
I think he does a better job.
He has some good articles about the un-sustainability of Social Security.
Looks like Pelosi can play games with the State of the Union ?!
https://apnews.com/d90578a1687049e9a67db01582ce4278
"Pelosi left unclear what would happen if Trump insisted on coming despite the welcome mat being pulled away. It takes a joint resolution of the House and Congress to extend the official invitation and set the stage.
“We’ll have to have a security evaluation, but that would mean diverting resources,” she told reporters when asked how she would respond if Trump still intended to come. “I don’t know how that could happen.”
Pressure on Trump intensified on the 26th day of the shutdown, as lawmakers from both parties scrambled for solutions. At the White House, Trump met a bipartisan group of lawmakers, as well as a group of Republican senators, but progress appeared elusive.
While his own advisers said the shutdown was proving a greater drag on the economy than expected, Trump showed no signs of backing off a fight that he views as vital for his core supporters.
On Wednesday, Trump signed legislation into law affirming that the roughly 800,000 federal workers who have been going without pay will ultimately be compensated for their lost wages. That was the practice in the past.
As he weighs a response to Pelosi, Trump could not go forward with a State of the Union address in Congress without her blessing. Donald Ritchie, former historian of the Senate, said that anytime a president comes to speak, it must be at the request of Congress. Trump could opt to deliver a speech somewhere else, like the Oval Office, but it would not have the same ritualistic heft."
Interesting article. Not really sure in the grand scheme of things ‘ritualistic heft’ matters. Meh maybe he should just give it in the Oval Office.... once again saving money on SS detail doesn’t exactly sound like a BAD thing
I think Trump's base would have no problem with him doing the SOTU from the Oval Office.
It would re-affirm his "Maverick" identity.
The problem isn't the SOTU location. Heck let him rent a football stadium.
Together Trump, Pelosi, & whoever else are trying to prolong the shutdown for political reasons = Thelma & Louise, driving the country off a Cliff.
But Thelma & Louise were prettier ... and it was just a movie.
I think the desire for a wall is valid. I would make it one side of an aqueduct and make the $5 Billion part of a larger national aqueduct system for dealing with floods & droughts.
If only Trump & Pelosi could suffer directly from the ramifications of their game of chicken. Place a cattle-prod into their privates and give them a 1000+ Volts when someone gets hurt because of their delay.
When a family loses loved ones in a 2019 fire because of a lack of Federal firefighters, let Trump & Pelosi be on the receiving end of that family's grief.
American leaders are WAAAY too insulated from the effects of their actions.
How many would remember a previous such
I'm all in with Feb. 23rd @ 5:22pm as lynch mobs are pounding on the White House doors calling for the head of the boy king, he owns this bitch lock stock n' barrel.......
by then trump is gonna wish he had a 30 barrier wall around the friggin' WH
“What if I told you...” that all that crap about what’s wrong with Social Security is a deliberate lie, intended to increase public distrust in government? Just like the lie that we can give trillions to our already-well-compensated ruling class and then demand the rest of the nation tighten belts to pay for it?