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It's a good thing. Government stops intruding so much in peoples lives, the market usually goes up, workers get a paid holiday...i've never met a government shutdown that I didn't like.
How about myself who will still have to work, as I am considered essential, and yet not know when I will get paid. I'm so glad you care about others .. smh
Not sure who you are replying to because I never mentioned Texas OR E verify - but he will likely tie it to the wall so . . . no, it won't be approved.
You replied to another poster that mentioned Texas and e-verify. Short memory?
Agreed! No pay for trump, no pay for House heels or Senate screwballs (including their over-staffs), close President's Park (also known as The White House) and evict everybody who works there except for a very small maintenance crew. No Press Briefings, tell all those hangers-on to go home. Yep, shut'er down!
Or, just send the Seabees, the Army Combat Engineers, and the Air Force Red Horse Squadrons to the border and let them go to work. The wall would be built on time and under budget! The military units could be allowed to hire civilian workers to flesh out their work force.
I'd like to see the federal government spend maybe $1,000,000,000 on beefing up border security. That would include thousands of more border patrol agents, thousands of new vehicles and 4x4s. State of the art technology like drones, infrared goggles, new rugged laptop computers, walkie talkies, etc. Give the Border Patrol thousands of more people, and give them the best and the latest to combat illegals entering our country. Totally fine with that.
But spending $15B-$20B on literally building a giant wall along most of the border, that is an unfathomable waste of money that Trump is asking for.
The US spends over $150 billion / year on overseas military bases. How about closing ALL of them and posting American troops on the US border? I'm sure they would be far happier actually defending our country than any other country.
It means Trump can't con his way into Americans paying for a border wall when he told Americans that Mexico would pay for it. The Trump supporters are so immune to Trump's cons they can't tell the difference between reality vs the Trump con.
It was actually nice to see someone call him out on his lies during his televised special today - made to play to his base.
Instead of sitting there like a stump in a stupor (Pence) - Pelosi and Schumer actually called him out on his outright LIES today - in front of the press - something NO republican has had the balls to do since Trump was elected.
Trump obviously needs to process the fact that he can't negotiate for crap and the new Congress ain't gonna be rubber stamping all of his stupid ideas.
I predict the next two years will be most interesting.
government workers love these shut downs, they don't have to come to work, and get paid without using their leave
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