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It’s pretty significant. Especially in the military world. There are some who are away at training or at schools who are about to be sent homenif a deal is not reached. There are some in other countries on a deployment who will not Be reimbursed for their food and any other things until this is over.
I am about to wake my kids up early so I can avoid the crazy at the commissary because if no deal is reached they will be shutting it down.
Right. My son in law is deployed in the middle east at the moment. He, and his wife (my daughter) and their four children (my grandkids) will not be paid during this shutdown, while our elected officials continue to be paid while they wreak havoc.
I am sick to death of all this. If you're as sick as I am, start here:
I think it is absolutely SHAMELESS that our senators and congressmen continue to be paid, while our military personnel and their families go without paychecks. If you're as sick as I am of these career politicians wreaking havoc with our society while our military try their best to protect it, start here:
By the way, I'm always OK with a temporary government shutdown, as long as the military continue to get paid. And get this - THIS IS AN OPTION but our representatives in office have to vote to continue military pay. They have that option - but they didn't do it, did they? I didn't even hear a mention of it. Meanwhile, they keep getting paid via our tax dollars.
Ted Cruz’s 2013 shutdown over the ACA was rightly called stupid by the same people who are now shamefully shutting down the government over DACA.
The real issue here is that this president cannot be trusted to keep his word. He asked for a bipartisan bill that would pass in the Senate and he got exactly what he asked for. And then he changed his mind.
How do you govern with a president who doesn't follow through on his promises? What is the point of the two parties even trying to work together when the president will tank any agreements, even those he asked for, on a whim?
It's Trump who is the problem here. And the GOP has to know this, too, because he has put them in this untenable position where even they don't know what the hell he wants.
By the way, I'm always OK with a temporary government shutdown, as long as the military continue to get paid. And get this - THIS IS AN OPTION but our representatives in office have to vote to continue military pay. They have that option - but they didn't do it, did they? I didn't even hear a mention of it. Meanwhile, they keep getting paid via our tax dollars.
Disgusting.
They'll do it. I work with many military, talking to them today. They aren't even as concerned as the C-D posters. They just got paid on the 15th. Next paycheck on the 1st. It will happen.
The real issue here is that this president cannot be trusted to keep his word. He asked for a bipartisan bill that would pass in the Senate and he got exactly what he asked for. And then he changed his mind.
How do you govern with a president who doesn't follow through on his promises? What is the point of the two parties even trying to work together when the president will tank any agreements on a whim?
It's Trump who is the problem here. And the GOP has to know this, too, because he has put them in this untenable position where even they don't know what the hell he wants.
That had nothing what he wanted.....
Would you do that? Of course not....
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