That might be true up in the republican side of Congress, but for the 3 million people working for the federal government that help make the country function? Absolutely bullshit. This guy is bad and he should feel bad.
When Trump shut down the government during one of his tantrums Federal employees were left furloughed or working with no pay for a month.
And while that was truly awful, federal employees got back pay once the government reopened. The federal contractors who arguably do way more practical day-to-day work on behalf of the American people, went fully without pay, and were not able to recoup any of it.
These political ploys impact real peoples’ lives.
Not all Federal Employees got back pay. I don’t think DOD employees did, could be wrong, but I have heard some stories.
That’s not the quiet part. Their platform has been for decades “government doesn’t work, elect us and we’ll show you”
Step 1: complain about government spending, claim that it creates untenable debt/deficit (they don’t care which, their base doesn’t understand the difference.)
Step 2: insist Dems just make cuts to social programs to curb debt/deficit. Dems at least partially cave to keep government functional.
Step 3: immediately push to cut taxes for the wealthy and big businesses, creating a massive deficit in the budget.
Step 4: see step 1.
The GOP’s core platform and greatest strength is lying and misinforming voters. Democrats consistently have lower deficits and lower taxes for almost everyone and still people think the GOP is the fiscally conservative party. I’m a young guy and have so many friends that always said Biden/democrats would raise their taxes - they’d never done their own taxes and had literally no idea.
The most fucked part of this is the only spending they consider superfluous is the spending that helps regular people. The republicans want to just funnel money to the rich donor class and fuck everyone else.
So little of what the government does is actually effective in helping common people. The amount that goes to their millionaire/billionaire buddies is absurd. As someone who often works in government contracting, the shit I’ve seen is ridiculous even when I’m the beneficiary of it.
At this point, we could just omit “United” from the United States of America. /s
I kinda feel like we should just evict Texas. Maybe Florida.
Watch as they regress into a total shit show and demand being let back in.
Yes. I may be feeling kind of petty.
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the North only won militarily while the South won the real war.
Me, a Texan: At least I don’t live in Florida
FuglyDuck: Boot Texas! Florida ain’t too bad…
Me, a sad Texan: Get Sally Struthers down here for my disadvantaged ass!
For the record… of all the states that might become a viable, independent nation, Texas is top two or three on that list. It’s probably the only red state that really has a chance. assuming it’s not horribly mismanaged.
and that’s kind of the point on picking on texas. the reason it’d fail as an independent nation is it’s horribly mismanaged and relies on federal aid for pretty much all of it’s infrastructure. Also, Texas is leading the way in ruining it for the rest of us- even more so than Florida. (For example the cherry-picked judge pushing anti-abortian policies through is in texas.)
Well this is horrifying.
It really is and for reasons we may not be considering here in this thread.
In many authoritarian and fascist regimes, you want the public to become disenfranchised and depoliticized. You don’t want them to have any interest in politics other repeating than the party line. It’s easy if you can just go around saying well, they’re all corrupt so don’t worry about it.
