Budget negotiations and the possibility of a government shutdown
The situation as it currently stands.
I must admit I have no particular interest in writing much about this at the moment, so I’m glad to post a link instead. I have found over the years that budget negotiations are mostly theater, full of sound and fury and temporary solutions that only kick the can down the road.
Kurt Schlichter, who is my go-to guy in the mornings on townhall, sums it all up much better than I can, and with his usual sense of humor:
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/01/18/please-dont-shut-down-the-government-democrats-because-that-would-be-awful-not-n2435670
Shut it down; shut it ALL down. The only way to cut ANY spending is to cut ALL of the spending.
Full disclosure; half of my total income comes from Social Security and my military retirement. This may hurt. I guess I’m a masochist; HURT ME! HURT ME!
Ah, the government shut down charade. Only employees deemed nonessential are sent home, and once the manufactured crisis is over they receive full back pay. Question: If they are nonessential why are they on the payroll in the first place?
If nothing else this will be fun to watch how the media spins and bends over backwards to paint this as all the Republicans fault.
Wouldn’t it be ironic that the WW2 memorial, forests, etc could STILL be visited by hikers and WW2 vets this time.
And can’t we identify who gave the orders to employ people to put up fences around the WW2 memorial and have them prosecuted? It was then that I knew a deep state existed.
Baklava,
What took you so long?
the only good thing about this one is a GOP POTUS is smacking the DEMS about the shutdown and making it clear that the DEMS place 800,000 illegal dreamers above the government. POTUS – the destroyer of political correctness. Yeah Boy!!!
Parker,
Nobody mentioned deep state until 2017. 🙂 I was ahead of the curve.
These people are entrenched.
Baklava Says:
January 18th, 2018 at 6:29 pm
Wouldn’t it be ironic that the WW2 memorial, forests, etc could STILL be visited by hikers and WW2 vets this time.
And can’t we identify who gave the orders to employ people to put up fences around the WW2 memorial and have them prosecuted? It was then that I knew a deep state existed.
* * *
I had never heard the term Deep State (as you say later, it wasn’t being used then), but the alacrity with which the National Park Service obeyed obviously tyrannical and possibly illegal orders did give me pause.
Especially as they, like the EPA, BLM (the government one), DOE, and other agencies have their own SWAT teams at hand.
For the Deep State or just normally corrupt BLM see this:
https://www.steynonline.com/8384/bundy-morning-quarterbacking
Baklava,
“These people are entrenched.” long before 2017. Try going back to when formal governments were a part of organized human societies. Bureaucracy exists to protect, preserve, enrich, and expand bureaucracy. Same as it ever was. That is exactly why government needs to be restricted to very limited responsibilities, and closely watched by an armed populous.
The founders understood this, but as history shows a republic can not withstand a democracy. A republic dies where a democracy rules. This is the goal of the hard left and ignorant fools who vote for them. ‘Free stuff’ is the opiate of the masses until they die in the gulag, the cultural revolution, killing fields, etc. Current example: Venezuela.
AesopFan,
Read Unintended Consequences by John Ross.
Me too Neo. Lots of preening and peacocking, not much else. Certainly no serious discussion and decision making about spending.
I’m a President Trump supporter who will be affected by a government “shutdown”.
I get Social Security. If the Federal Government shuts down I might get a late payment. Or, perhaps, Miss an entire payment.
Meh!
I’ll gladly make that sacrifice to rein in Federal Government spending at this – or any – time.
MAGA!
The Alt Right leadership cadre started using Deep State around 2015.
It was called the Powers That Be before then, or the Cabal or the Novus ordo seclorum on your US 1 dollar bill.
I guess people never noticed that before…
I had never heard the term Deep State (as you say later, it wasn’t being used then), but the alacrity with which the National Park Service obeyed obviously tyrannical and possibly illegal orders did give me pause.
When the Leftist alliance and subordinates of the Novus Order, brings their war asset out of the reserve, they can no longer pretend that the national friendly park rangers are neutral or in the reserves. They are active chess pieces attacking now.
People who were defending the Thin Blue Line, the concept of Obeying the Police, also had little to nothing to say about the police unions ordering units to stand down and let Antifa and Leftist rape and kill squads to go wild in cities. This not due to fear, as police will gladly round up right wing militias, harass Bundy’s crowd and faction, and arrest KKK peeps. This is because the police unions and cities are allied with BLM, Soros, and Antifa.
Allies help each other out. And the national park rangers were Ordered to help out the Leftist alliance, their true allegiances.
Most people thought their government served them or at least were subordinate to them. They obey the law, and the government obeys the authority of the Constitutions. Both turned out to be closer to fabrications like with Satan Clause. A nice tale to deceive kids that doesn’t know any better.