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View Poll Results: Are you happy with Trump’s deal to reopen the Federal government for 3 weeks?
I’m happy with the deal 41 36.61%
It’s ok 50 44.64%
I’m unhappy with this deal 21 18.75%
Voters: 112. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-26-2019, 07:37 PM
 
Location: SE Arizona - FINALLY! :D
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I don’t care what he said, it’s all political posturing, both sides. I like to blame both sides equality. We the people elected them to serve us, not them.
So SHUTTING DOWN the government and delaying 800,000 fellow American's paychecks is "political posturing".

Nice.

Ken
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Old 01-26-2019, 07:44 PM
 
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Default The federal workers in limbo were resorting to pawn shops

That's Trump's America - desperate people were starting to pawn their belongings to stave off eviction and put food on the table.

Federal Employees Turn to Pawnshops Amid Shutdown’s Financial Pinch
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/u...-shutdown.html

US federal workers turn to pawn shops for cash as stalemate goes on
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8737296.html
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Old 01-26-2019, 07:45 PM
 
Location: Scottsdale az
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That's Trump's America - desperate people were starting to pawn their belongings to stave off eviction and put food on the table.

Federal Employees Turn to Pawnshops Amid Shutdown’s Financial Pinch
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/u...-shutdown.html

US federal workers turn to pawn shops for cash as stalemate goes on
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8737296.html
Well most federal workers will get back pay. The contractors however are screwed.
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Old 01-26-2019, 07:51 PM
 
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Nevermind the taxpayer who is forcibly made poorer through taxation to pay the salaries of busycrats.
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Old 01-26-2019, 07:54 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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Right wing media are destroying Trump's political buoyancy. Schumer and Pelosi should be sending thank you cards to Limbaugh and Coulter.
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Old 01-26-2019, 07:56 PM
 
Location: Lost in Montana *recalculating*...
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No they didn’t. Not ‘most’.

I have 8 commercial deals backlogged as a result of this epic boondoggle. That’s 8 businesses not hiring, buying goods, FF&E for naught.

Stupid move on Trumps part. Dumb, dumb, dumb..
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Old 01-26-2019, 08:02 PM
 
Location: SoCal/PHX/HHI
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“We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win at trade, we’re going to win at the border. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’ You’ve heard this one. You’ll say ‘Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win anymore. It’s too much”.
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Old 01-26-2019, 08:02 PM
 
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And it was a mistake for him to fold. I"m a believer in the scorched earth method in this showdown. If the liberal left isn't kept in check both in terms of border security and more generally, we won't have a country anymore. So whatever the damage done, even if the government is shutdown for a year (and its only a partial shutdown btw), I don't care because its still preferrable to a Democrat victory where we get open borders, amnesty for not just DACA for all illegals, unrestricted drug flow from Mexico, endless illegal immigration and refugees, and the left pushing the rest of it's socialist agenda including government run health care and more unfair trade agreements to send our wealth abroad and the war on domestic US energy production and the attack on the 2nd amendment.

So yes I would have preferred for the government shutdown to continue NO MATTER WHAT THE COST because the cost of a Democrat, liberal victory is FAR WORSE!!!!!! I would have preferred a Trump victory, and even if Schumer won't budge, then for Trump to go down fighting vs surrender. Even if Trump fought to the bitter end and went down fighting, that would also be more honorable than what happened.

If even Trump can't stop the left, then maybe its up to American patriots to take matters into our own hands and the left will regret that day when it comes. It will be worse than 1861. And this is why I will never give up my guns.
If this day of reckoning every came you would be hiding under your bed.
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Old 01-26-2019, 08:06 PM
 
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That's Trump's America - desperate people were starting to pawn their belongings to stave off eviction and put food on the table.

Federal Employees Turn to Pawnshops Amid Shutdown’s Financial Pinch
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/u...-shutdown.html

US federal workers turn to pawn shops for cash as stalemate goes on
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8737296.html
How is the inability of people to plan for a rainy day Trump’s fault? Why do people live from pay check to pay check?
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Old 01-26-2019, 08:09 PM
 
Location: In your head, rent free
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That's Trump's America - desperate people were starting to pawn their belongings to stave off eviction and put food on the table.

Federal Employees Turn to Pawnshops Amid Shutdown’s Financial Pinch
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/u...-shutdown.html

US federal workers turn to pawn shops for cash as stalemate goes on
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8737296.html
That's really too bad, I was hoping to pick up a cheap air compressor for my barn.
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