In every previous "gov't shutdown" all govt employees received full pay. They ultimately simply received a paid vacation. Now does that mean those non-essential who are working through get paid double?
Anyway, see the Park Rangers standing guard to keep people out of an open space because, due to the shutdown, there are no guards for the open space. Except extra guards needed to put up fences because there are no guards... even though we are paying them anyway... could we possibly be more ridiculous?
The media trots out stories about babies and cancer and the notorious liar Clapper says we we are going to have more terror attacks and the CDC says flu will get out of control, all because of the mass paid vacations. Well, if those on "furlough" are non-essential, why would essential things be at risk, even if this was not pure theatre. The fact is no one is going without, there is exactly zero difference under "shutdown" than otherwise. Yet, we'll be treated to untold stories of problems "due to the shutdown."
This gets back to an important point. It is not the hand you are dealt, it is how you play the cards. And no one should judge a man by how he plays his cards. But those Park Rangers, who are taking part in a ridiculous charade, should not ask us to believe they are anything more than street clowns. And the intelligence services, the CDC, all theatre. That's fine if they want to play their hand that way (who am I to judge?), but asking us to play along and take them seriously, that is going too far.
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Anyway, see the Park Rangers standing guard to keep people out of an open space because, due to the shutdown, there are no guards for the open space. Except extra guards needed to put up fences because there are no guards... even though we are paying them anyway... could we possibly be more ridiculous?
The media trots out stories about babies and cancer and the notorious liar Clapper says we we are going to have more terror attacks and the CDC says flu will get out of control, all because of the mass paid vacations. Well, if those on "furlough" are non-essential, why would essential things be at risk, even if this was not pure theatre. The fact is no one is going without, there is exactly zero difference under "shutdown" than otherwise. Yet, we'll be treated to untold stories of problems "due to the shutdown."
This gets back to an important point. It is not the hand you are dealt, it is how you play the cards. And no one should judge a man by how he plays his cards. But those Park Rangers, who are taking part in a ridiculous charade, should not ask us to believe they are anything more than street clowns. And the intelligence services, the CDC, all theatre. That's fine if they want to play their hand that way (who am I to judge?), but asking us to play along and take them seriously, that is going too far.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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Closing an open site with more armed guards and putting up fencing with big signs which costs money, when to leave the site open and barely tended as before which essentially costs much less is idiotic. I'm sure it probably costs them more now to keep the site closed than open. Big government even costs us even when it's supposed to be closed.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/obama_vs_the_veterans.html
O come on! Directly abusing veterans is a fast-track way to the top:
At 4:45 p.m., commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, supported by six battle tanks commanded by Maj. George S. Patton, formed in Pennsylvania Avenue while thousands of civil service employees left work to line the street and watch. The Bonus Marchers, believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the troops until Patton ordered[citation needed] the cavalry to charge them—an action which prompted the spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"
During the military operation, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, later the 34th President of the United States, served as one of MacArthur's junior aides.[16] Believing it wrong for the Army's highest-ranking officer to lead an action against fellow American war veterans, he strongly advised MacArthur against taking any public role: "I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there," he said later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/national_park_service_wolves_in_service_dog_harness.html
I thought this article was interesting in showing how a seemingly harmless or benevolent and well-intended government agency could be turned against the people in unexpected ways. Apply this to any other government institution, law or even fiat money management.
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