I just sent a message to Sen. Warner, reminding him that revenue from my agency enabled the Clinton administration to balance the budget. We’re too important to furlough or close.
Ah, the wonderful world of Libertaria where people magically spring up and do all what governments elsewhere do for a fraction of the cost. There are good reasons why no libertarian governments have ever existed.
As a former Libertarian raised by Libertarians and sent to a Libertarian college where I pledged a Libertarian Fraternity full of, you guessed it, Libertarians…
A Libertarian government would never work.
Seriously, the president of my college envisioned a utopia where someone breaks into your house and you have a choice of private sector police forces to call.
“I think I’ll call Citizen-Guard™, they have a special this week…and I have a coupon!”
“Thank you for calling Citizen-Guard™. Your phone call is very important to us. All of our operators are busy helping other customers” distorted hold music
“Hand over the hostage, scum!”
“No, you drop the gun, cop!”
“What’s it worth to you?”
I wonder if this will affect the subsidies for the free cell phone service that people on government assistance are able to get.
The Latest: Trump not ready to declare emergency over wall
Well, yeah, that would end the shutdown and stop hurting people. If he’s not hurting people, then how is he showing his base how big a man he is?
This page says the Lifeline program funding will continue.
The longer he waits to declare an emergency, the less it looks like an emergency.
Then again, he’s already waited 2 years…
Is the FCC standards enforcement arm still running (either funded or essential)?
The link you provided was from the shutdown in 2013.
Now the unpaid Secret Service can now sit in their Uber’s at 3 in the morning reading how the man they can die for, the man holding their paychecks, is being investigated by the FBI for being a Russian agent as President.
It does explain that the Lifeline service isn’t a federal agency so surely it would still apply.
This shutdown is part of the treason.
Yep.
You’re preaching to the choir.
It’s the oligarch party that’s keeping the government shuttered, and there’s no incentive for them to listen to you - sorry.
I’m telling you all.
There is no incentive for him to deal. He wants to inflict pain, because his base likes watching people writhe.
Stop with this “let’s come together crap.”
Fuck that. Get out in the street.
LEGALLY OF COURSE!!!
The leopards’re going to eat face so much, they’re going to be so sick and tired of eating face.