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Government services affected by shutdown -
National Parks, Tax Returns, Tax Audits, WIC Program, E-Verify, Health, Gun Permits, Military Pay, Passports, Work Safety.
Government services not affected by shutdown (this should be the "important stuff" list) -
Homeland Security, Mail, Social Security, Air Travel, Prisons, VA Mortgages, Presidents Salary(really?), Congressional Salary(lmfao.), Food Stamps ( ), Food Inspection.
Should switch Military pay, Work Saftey and Health for President Salary, Congressional Salary and Food stamps.
Those poor prospective new gun huggers will have to wait, the NRA will be mad for sure.
Do you have any idea of the misery the federal govenrment has brought upon millions of families?
You didn't care.
You still don't.
All you care is if you think your "free stuff" ( things you want and think others can be made to pay for) is threatened.
No government shutdown has been a real government shutdown. As long as the old geezers get their SS checks, their Medicare, their scooters and other assorted free stuff IT ISN't a REAL government shutdown
Active duty troops get paid cause God forbid we can't bomb bother countries, but disabled vets won't get their disability pensions. Nothing like maimed war vets on the street to make a few Congressmen feel manly.
And it's all for naught cause Obamacare is on along with Medicare, and Medicaid.
something people dont realize is that the government has shut down 17 times since 1976, the first time the government shut down. and guess what, the missiles stayed in their silos, the elderly got their social security payments, and for the most part NO ONE knew the government was shut down, until the last time it was shut down during the clinton administration, and even then the only reason people knew it was shut down is because of the big stink the democrats made about it shutting down, and even though the democrats blamed the republicans, the republicans actually benefited from the shut down.
Please provide sources/links/attribution to substantiate those 17 government shut downs.
As long as the old geezers get their SS checks, their Medicare, their scooters and other assorted free stuff IT ISN't a REAL government shutdown
I don't mind being called a geezer, but I do mind the suggestion that Social Security and Medicare is given free. I have worked since I was 15 and have paid into both programs (involuntarily) all of my working life. Paid. It is not free. Not free.
That's like the alcoholic blaming other people for his drinking binges. OR the cheating husband who sleeps around because his wife made him do it. Absurd.
The Democrats DO NOT control the House of Representatives which is the branch of govt that controls the purse strings. The Republicans do. They're using the shutdown as leverage.
Republicans are officially radicals....taking the uninsured hostage and shutting down the government.
Then again, Cons are always on the wrong side of history.
Really? Slavery wasn't abolished. Who knew?
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), Food Inspection.
