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Sunday, January 21, 2018

IS A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN SUCH A BAD THING?

jamesbaxley

The federal government is set to shut down at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, January 20, So what’s so wrong with the government shutting down? No IRS. No TSA. No DHS. Americans need a break from being spied on for a while. What’s so wrong about that?

Congress had failed to reach a compromise on a bill to fund the government. House Republicans did pass a bill on Thursday — known as a continuing resolution —to fund the government for four weeks but on a procedural vote late Friday night, which needed 60 votes to advance the House spending bill, 45 Senate Democrats — and four Senate Republicans — rejected it.



So why did the Democrats (and a handful of Republicans) reject it? Because the Democrats care more about illegal aliens than they do tax-paying Americans. They do not want to pass the short-term funding bill because it does not contain an extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program, which is set to expire in March.

Because the Republicans won't give in to the Left’s demands on immigration, the Democrats warn that Republicans are to be blamed in a government shutdown, and that’s okay. But the 2013 shutdown of the government when the tables were turned and the Democrats wouldn’t give into the Republicans demand of Obamacare changes in exchange for keeping the government open was a different story though.

According to the 2013 version of Sen, Chuck Schumer, “The basic line is: No matter how strongly one feels about an issue, you shouldn’t hold millions of people hostage. That’s what the other side is doing. That’s wrong and we can’t give in to that.”

This shutdown will affect nearly half of the 2 million civilian employees. The military will continue to destroy countries and conduct drone attacks which causes collateral damage of non-combatants and damage to non-combatant property but they won’t be paid until the government is restored. And incidentally, back pay isn’t guaranteed but the members of Congress will have no worries because they will still get paid no matter what . . . Surprise! Surprise!

This is the equivalence of a Mexican show-down, a political one at that. Neither side will budge until nearly 800,000 illegals are given full American citizenship after years of living off the welfare state. In 2012, even then-President Barack Obama said, “Congress needs to act” because DACA is just a “temporary stopgap measure” for this immigration issue.

“ . . . this is not amnesty, this is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It's not a permanent fix. This is a temporary stopgap measure . . . Congress needs to act."

So when somebody argues that the illegals are taking their jobs, just think about the 2018 government shutdown.