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check out boutons with sand in his drawers about something
Call me Ishmael
Not sure what's sadder, having so little integrity as to write a headline like that, or being the kind of re who shares it.
i don't understand why any of congress gets even 1 day off per yr. we're paying their salaries so their free time!
So you feel the same way about Trump?
The armed forces?
as far as i am seeing atm trump isn't vacationing in hawaii rn like your hopeful SoTH. as well, how much of trump's salary have we paid thus far? did you forget a little something something pavThe ?
last time i checked our armed forces didn't end up becoming millionaires on $100+k salary like most of congress. congress!
ps: i am entertaining you rn but i want nothing to do with you. why keep quoting and replying? out of here you ing stalking ass got!
We pay his salary. He works for us and has taken many vacation days in the past two years.
But we pay their salaries. That's the on criterion you stated. If you want to want to excuse Trump and the armed forces, you're allowed to -- but you'll need to be specific about it to avoid hypocrisy.last time i checked our armed forces didn't end up becoming millionaires on $100+k salary like most of congress. congress!
Also, the border patrol is currently working and most definitely NOT being paid by us.
What about them?
Mitch the turtle goes dormant.
The sneakiest reptile on the earth.
Mitch is MIA. What a great leader.
Trash freezes Federal pay for 2019
Trump screws farm country again with shutdown
Remember Individual 1's pre-election bribe to farmers,
the $12 billion in emergency aid that was supposed to save them after his trade war with China?
It was already doing little to help, but
now it appears to be yet another casualty of Trump's shutdown.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is in charge of making those direct payments, and after this week,
those payments will be suspended.
Any farmers who haven't already certified production are just going to have to wait until the agency is back to work.
It's not just these payments, either.
Farm loans and disaster assistance processed by the USDA will be halted, too.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
Amid shutdown, government helps fund Trump's private New Year's party
government spending data shows that the Secret Service paid Grimes Events & Party Tents Inc. of Delray Beach, Florida, $54,020 on December 19th for “TENT RENTAL FOR MAL.”
An employee of the company confirmed to Quartz that it is providing tents for the annual for-profit bash at Trump’s “Winter White House” in Palm Beach.
The Secret Service spent just over $26,000 on an array of accessories for Mar-a-Lago’s New Year’s Eve party in 2017, which was attended by both Trump and Melania.
Though
it’s never not going to be a conflict of interest when the president has taxpayers subsidize a for-profit party at his private club,
$54,000 for tents feels especially egregious given that
the government is currently running under a partial shutdown that has deprived approximately 800,000 federal workers of their paychecks.
Trump selling access to the White House through his private club is an outrage every day of the week,
but when
he’s leveraging government funds for private profit
at a time when hundreds of thousands of middle-class federal employees are worried about paying their mortgages and feeding their children
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...paign=trending
If Obama had used govt funds to fill his personal bank account with $Ms ...
are you assuming "good faith" towards govt by the Repugs?
The oligarchy/Repug strategy is to up govt so Americans will hate govt, won't interfere, but even support Repugs, as Repugs defund govt (pay for oligarchy's tax cuts) into dysfunctionality, eg, HUD, EPA, State, IRS, FDA, FCC, FEMA, etc
So Repugs are quite unperturbed by the shutdown.
What if voters blame Repugs?
Repugs know that the ed up Cons ution, gerrymandering, voter suppression, counting fraud will always give Repugs a reliable base and enough Congress people to scorched-earth OBSTRUCT the Dems.
If the Repugs actually fail to block something progressive by the Dems, the Repugs will simply undo it all when they get back in power, as they've been doing to Obama's stuff.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-30-2018 at 04:02 PM.
to show his spite for government, Trump just froze federal pay, denying Federal employees a scheduled 2% raise.
the reason he cited was that the deficit his tax cut caused made the raises "fiscally unsustainable."
when Trump refers to the swamp one immediately thinks of the corporate lobbyists he has made into department heads, but what he means is people who go to work everyday and do their jobs.
Firstare you assuming "good faith" towards govt by the Repugs?
The oligarchy/Repug strategy is to up govt so Americans will hate govt, won't interfere, but even support Repugs, as Repugs defund govt (pay for oligarchy's tax cuts) into dysfunctionality, eg, HUD, EPA, State, IRS, FDA, FCC, FEMA, etc
So Repugs are quite unperturbed by the shutdown.
What if voters blame Repugs?
Repugs know that the ed up Cons ution, gerrymandering, voter suppression, counting fraud will always give Repugs a reliable base and enough Congress people to scorched-earth OBSTRUCT the Dems.
If the Repugs actually fail to block something progressive by the Dems, the Repugs will simply undo it all when they get back in power, as they've been doing to Obama's stuff.
No Mitch is not acting in good faith, he wants nothing to do with something he might get blamed for.
So The dealmaker goes dormant.
And then second
GFY
Sound familiar?
Little McC leaves the scene of the crime and scurries back to KY
Trump just got hit with a major lawsuit from his own federal workers
one of the largest unions representing government employees has taken a very litigious American approach to the situation and filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration asserting the illegality of requiring people to work without pay.
The American Federation of Government Employees union (AFGE) released a statement today announcing its lawsuit as the shutdown has extended well into its second week.
The law firm representing the union, Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch, is claiming that this practice is not within the legal authority of the government to continue.
https://washingtonpress.com/2018/12/...deral-workers/
“Approximately 420,000 federal employees are continuing to work, but don’t know when they will get their next paychecks.
This is not an acceptable way for any employer, let alone the U.S. government, to treat its employees.
These employees still need to pay childcare expenses, buy gas, and incur other expenses to go to work every day and
yet, they are not getting paid.
It is a blatant violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act,” a partner at the firm, Heidi Burakiewicz, said in the release.
Trump Rejects Democratic Funding Plan That Seeks to Reopen Government Without Wall Money
Democrats have settled on a plan.
Shortly after the party takes control of the House of Representatives
Thursday they will vote on a package of measures to reopen the federal government.
The plan essentially involves two bills that split funding for the Department of Homeland Security and border security with the goal of ensuring that those that enjoy bipartisan support can make it through.
The New York Times explains:
The first includes six bipartisan spending measures that would fully fund agencies like the Interior Department and the Internal Revenue Service through the end of the fiscal year in September.
The second would extend homeland security funding at current levels through Feb. 8, including $1.3 billion for fencing but no funding for Mr. Trump’s border wall — a provision that renders it dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled Senate.The move is in large part
designed to put Trump in a corner and
pressure him to cave or
take responsibility for keeping a large part of the federal government shut
over the president’s demand for wall money. For now, it seems the president isn’t willing to budge.
In the middle of tweetstorm that included lots of New Year vitriol, Trump also used the first day of the year to make clear that he would not support the Democratic plan to reopen the government without money for a wall along the border with Mexico.
“The Democrats, much as I suspected, have allocated no money for a new Wall. So imaginative!” Trump tweeted.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...all-money.html
National Parks Getting Trashed During Government Shutdown
Filth spreads as overused restrooms and trash bins are locked, causing public health concerns.
Some National Parks are being
overwhelmed by trash, vandalism, human feces and destructive off-roading
while most personnel are gone during the government shutdown, according to reports from remaining workers and visitors.
“It’s so heartbreaking.
There is more trash and human waste and disregard for the rules than I’ve seen in my four years living here,” Dakota Snider, 24, who works in California’s Yosemite National Park, told The Associated Press.
“It’s a free-for-all.”
Some visitors were seen dumping bags of garbage from their cars at Yosemite.
Two campgrounds and a redwood grove were
closed because of “human waste issues and lack of staffing,”
a park statement said.
People were using the spots as open-air bathrooms
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-parks-trashed-in-government-shutdown_us_5c2aeee2e4b08aaf7a931f9c?utm_medium=em ail&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__010219&utm_con tent=__TheMorningEmail__010219+CID_10c4064a014c021 3eb0fcb2c79fc43cd&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20s oftware&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__T heMorningEmail__010219
Same as unregulated Wall St!
America the Beautiful is really America Lord of the Flies
in history
"when they talk about the government shutdown,
they’re going to be talking about the president of the United States,
who the president was at that time.
They’re not going to be talking about who was the head of the House, the head the Senate,
who’s running things in Washington.
So I really think the pressure is on the president."
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"You have to get everybody in a room.
You have to be a leader.
The president has to lead.
He has to get (the Speaker of the House) and everybody else in a room,
and they have to make a deal.
You have to be nice and be angry and be wild and cajole and
do all sorts of things, but you have to get a deal.
"And, unfortunately, he has never been a dealmaker.
That wasn't his expertise before he went into politics and it's obviously not his expertise now.
But you have to get the people in a room and you have to get a deal."
https://www.politifact.com/facebook-...-government-s/
GOVERNMENT TELLS FURLOUGHED WORKERS TO UNCLOG TOILETS FOR RENT AS TRUMP RANTS AND RAVES OVER BORDER
The fate of hundreds of thousands of federal employees rests with a president who still doesn’t understand basic facts.
with furloughed employees sharing their fears on Twitter using the hashtag #ShutdownStories.
Office of Personnel Management has tried to help, sharing a series of sample letters it suggests using as “a guide when working with your creditors during this furlough.”
Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
I am a Federal employee who has recently been furloughed due to a lack of funding of my agency.
Because of this, my income has been severely cut and I am unable to pay the entire cost of my rent, along with my other expenses...
I will keep in touch with you to keep you informed about my income status and I would like to discuss with you
the possibility of trading my services to perform maintenance (e.g. painting, carpentry work) in exchange for partial rent payments.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018...U2MDA3NjUyNAS2
Trash's AmeriKKKa
Illegal aliens commit 37% of America's homicides despite only accounting for 3.5% of the population
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