THESE PEOPLE ARE OUT OF THEIR MINDS!

THESE PEOPLE ARE OUT OF THEIR MINDS!

(Ed O’Keefe, Jared Conrad Nagel, Justin Murray)

(Michael Shear, Grant Campbell, Mike Tate)

(Walter Dellinger, Frazer Chronicle)

 

 I’ve gotten dozens of phone calls and hundreds of emails from people that I’ve never heard of…..at first I thought that I was popular, not the case, I now know that my feelings of popularity were wrong, most everybody got the same things that I did. If it weren’t so funny, I’d be crushed, I mean these new found friendships, what can I say…..I like and need new friends.

 

Are we really aware of what is going on in our country…..sadly I don’t think so, both political parties are like a bunch of babies; (I’m going home if I can’t have my way). And it’s the worst kind of act because it involves all of us.

 

The most absurd allegations are being thrown around, like “I personally believe that Senator Reid and the president, for political purposes, want to shut down the government.” Are you serious, what must be going through the mind of the man behind this statement, Republican Congressman, Tim Griffin. Why would anybody want to shut down our government, for what reason, what a smoke screen…..it’s simply not true.

 

And what about Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer, “Until they send us a clean bill, we’re going to table whatever else they send us.” Whatever happened to reaching across the aisle, coming to a decision THAT WAS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY?  

 

Its political posturing pure and simple, with little exception, in today’s political world, our elected officials look for photo-ops, sound bites, and schmoozing up to not only constituents, but their financial backers as well. Very few elected officials today work, it’s a dirty four letter word. Anyways they have staffers to do the lion’s share of whatever comes across their desks.

 

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN(S)

Let’s understand what is about to happen…..in U.S. politics, a government shutdown is a situation in which the government stops providing all but essential services. Except for police, fire fighting, the National Weather Service and it’s parent agencies, medical services at federal facilities, the post office, armed forces, air traffic management and the country’s prisons.

 

The causes can happen when the President, the Senate and the House cannot perform their jobs as a legislative body. The main culprit is of course a failure to agree on a budget financing its government programs for a pending fiscal year.

 

The effects can be catastrophic, beginning with the furloughing of civilian federal employees, military personnel won’t be furloughed, but will not be paid. The exact details of which government functions would stop during a shutdown would be determined by the office of Management and Budget.

 

In Washington D.C. governmental shutdowns affect our nation’s capital differently than any other city in the U.S. Schools are usually closed, and utilities such as garbage collection stop and police and fire-fighting forces can be cut back.

 

 

 

The list of U.S. government shutdowns is surprisingly long, but always for the same stupid reasons…..politics, and (I can’t get my way.) Here’s the list;

 

September 30, to October 11, 1976

September 30, to October 13, 1977

October 31, to November 9, 1977

November 30, to December 9, 1977

September 30, to October 18, 1978

September 30 to October 12, 1979

November 20, to November 23, 1981

September 30, to October 2, 1982

December 17, to December 21, 1982

November 10, to November 14, 1983

September 30, October 3, 1984

October 3, to October 5, 1984

October 16, to October 18, 1986

December 18, to December 20, 1987

October 5, to October 9, 1990

November 13, to November 19, 1995

December 16, 1995, to January 6, 1996

 

In total 109 days were lost to government operations do to government shutdowns…..did we every get residuals with regards to wages paid to these jokers when they weren’t working? And why is that, they didn’t work, the doors and windows were shuttered, nobody was manning the switches of our nation.

 

WHAT CAN BE DONE

That’s an easy question to answer…..fired every swinging d---, clean house, they aren’t doing their jobs, they hold membership to political party above what is good for the country. Somewhere in the realm of Camelot those people who are responsible for stoking the engines of a democratic government got lazy, got politicized, and joined the grid-lock league.

 

There isn’t one right party or wrong, they’re both wrong and need to be replaced, probably with a brand new concept.

 

Now if this impending shutdown does in fact happen…..it won’t impact my cable service will it, I can get along without a whole bunch of things, but not without my cable T.V.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!