Hartsfield-Jackson security lines more than an hour long amid federal shutdown (student loans, schools)

[ronricks]

Originally Posted by JPD

We've already been over this. If you still don't get it, then you are willfully ignorant.

Ignorant in that virtually nothing has changed?

[ronricks]

Originally Posted by JMatl

TSA

Useless and needs to be abolished.

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by ronricks

Don't you think there is a reason she doesn't want him to speak? I mean it should be obvious. It will be disaster to have a guy like Trump speak to congress and the country over a shutdown that is over 1/10th of a cent on the budget dollar. It isn't in Pelosi's best interest to do such which is why she isn't.

They had a deal. He walked away from it at the last minute, due to nothing else but Ann Coulter and Rush having on air meltdowns.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by ronricks

It was a typo I thought it was 24 days not 26. Thanks for correcting me.



Pets heads aren't falling off and we have eclipsed that threshold at this point. Seems there are certain people who are vested in spreading scare tactics over this shutdown. This shutdown is different from no others. All because Democrats refuse to give Trump 1/10th of a cent on the budget dollar!

You don't seem to understand anything. The dispute is not over the dollar amount. It's over what he wants to use the money for. If he wanted to invest in a tech and manpower based approach to border security with no wall, they'd have a deal by now.

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by ronricks

Useless and needs to be abolished.

Let me guess, you would prefer that all passengers be armed while flying.

[ronricks]

Originally Posted by JMatl

Let me guess, you would prefer that all passengers be armed while flying.

No. I would prefer that I have the experience I had when I flew into and out of San Fransisco a week ago. They use a private company who are much more efficient and make the experience much easier. I don't own a gun and likely never will.

[ronricks]

Originally Posted by JPD

You don't seem to understand anything. The dispute is not over the dollar amount. It's over what he wants to use the money for. If he wanted to invest in a tech and manpower based approach to border security with no wall, they'd have a deal by now.

I think I understand this pretty well. Anyone who understands politics and isn't a partisan hack understands this. Chuck and Nancy can't give Trump his wall. I will let you figure out why. This is politics.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by JMatl

I wish the TSA and FAA would walk off the job for one day. Trump would be forced to end this within 24 hours.

Agreed.

[Forhall]

I've never understood the animosity toward government and government workers in this country. Do those who champion that everything should just be privatized not understand that we subsidize those salaries too? Perhaps moreso. Giant loopholes in our tax system for corporations, and the ability of large corporations to give their employees no benefits, means the taxpayer is subsidizing the private employee while someone still makes a profit off it. Those same corporate owners then turn around and try to turn the population against government workers so they can get more contracts/power and make even more money. I mean, if we are going to pay for the healthcare, food stamps, housing subsidy, and education of the average Walmart worker, while also paying a larger share of taxes so the Walton family can get a tax break, I'm not sure which is "mooching" off tax payers more - the government employee or the priviate employee?

[Forhall]

Originally Posted by ronricks

I think I understand this pretty well. Anyone who understands politics and isn't a partisan hack understands this. Chuck and Nancy can't give Trump his wall. I will let you figure out why. This is politics.

Speaker of the House Pelosi just won a historic election with a huge margin for Democrats precisely because Americans wanted someone who would stand up to Trump's dumb wall. Polls show Americans blame trump for the shutdown by 20+ points over Democrats. Pelosi is doing exactly what we elected her to do, keeping this would-be dictator from wasting billions of dollars on a vanity project simply so he can say he fulfilled a campaign promise and placate his lowest echelons of supporters who believe their financial woes and lack of ability to compete for jobs is thanks to brown people.