Don't be such a short sighted, superficial, talking-point face-value fool. Don't let the terms "non-essential" make up your mind for you. The label applied to the services has nothing to do with whether they are essential or not. It's an empty word from the empty souls of politicians who are playing a political chess game, using American Citizens as pawns, and the only winners will be their own pocket books when their respective lobbies thank them for their service at the cost of hundreds of millions of Americans ways of life.800,000 non essential workers means we the tax payer dont need them.
I never said the gov't wasn't bloated. The Federal Government is QUITE bloated, but this is not how you trim the fat.If you dont think we have a bloated, arrogant, out of control government, then your head is in the sand right next to mine.
YEP!If they are f**king things up as you put it, its on purpose, and that my friend is an even bigger problem.
Those Republicans said Wednesday that the spending impasse that shut down the government early Tuesday is less about conservatives' desire to derail Obamacare than it is about strengthening their hand in the debt-ceiling talks. That borrowing limit must be raised by Oct. 17 to prevent the government from defaulting on its financial obligations and Republicans say any future agreement to reopen the government would link the spending bill and the debt ceiling.
*This is not just about Obamacare anymore,* centrist Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., said.
*We’re not going to be disrespected,* conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., added. *We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.*
*The [budget bill] is now part of the debt ceiling fight and we may see a shutdown that extends to mid-October,* said a veteran Republican operative with relationships on Capitol Hill. *Boehner could not pass a [budget bill] with mostly Democratic support now and then have any chance of holding Republicans on the debt ceiling.*
When asked if House Republicans would vote on a "clean" continuing resolution, he said, "Why in the world would you do that?* Cole said of the clean funding bill. *That’s basically, at this point, a surrender to the Democratic position.*
House Republicans tell me Speaker John Boehner wants to craft a *grand bargain* on fiscal issues as part of the debt-limit deliberations, and during a series of meetings on Wednesday, he urged colleagues to stick with him.
*It’s the return of the grand bargain,* says one House Republican, who requested anonymity to speak freely. *There weren’t a lot of specifics discussed, and the meetings were mostly about just checking in. But he’s looking hard at the debt limit as a place where we can do something big.*
Michael Steel, Boehner’s spokesman, wouldn’t comment on the closed-door meetings. *The speaker has always said we’ll need substantial spending cuts and reforms in order to raise the debt limit, like in the debt-limit bill we’ve been discussing,* he says. *But let’s drop the phrase ‘grand bargain.’ Right now, there’s nothing grand, and there’s no one to bargain with.*
It appears that substaintial ACA implementation might continue during a lapse in annual appropriations that resulted in a temporary government shutdown for two reasons. The first is that the federal government will be able to rely on sources of funding other than annual discretionary appropriations to support implementation activities, including multiple-year and no-year discretionary funds still available for obligation as well as mandatory funds. The second reason, which is covered in more detail in the answers to several of the other quesitons, is that agencies may continue to perform certain types of activities that fall under exceptions to the Antideficiency Act, which generally prohibits continued operations in the absence of appropriations.
HCERA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Care_and_Education_Reconciliation_Act_of_2010) created a Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund (HIRIF) to which it appropriated $1 billion. Both the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servicides (CMS, within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)) and the IRS have used these mandatory funds to cover the costs associated with ACA's implementation. The HIRIF apporpriation was one of numerous appropriations included in ACA that collectively provide billions of dollars of mandatory funding to support new and existing grant programs and other activities. The HHS shudown contingency plan that was prepared in anticipation of a possible government shutdown in FY2012 indicated that ACA implementation activities at CMS would continue because of mandatory funding provided in the law.
That's all very nice research, but I think it is refreshing that some of these used condoms are actually doing what they promised the saps that voted for them to do. Red herring or not.
If you want to spend millions to get a job that only pays thousands, and you look me in the eye while shaking my hand and tell me if I give you my vote, you will go up there and stick a pink dildo in your ass; then I will have no qualms when the opposition calls you a homo; after you stick the pink dildo in your ass!
If you get there, and you have to compromise (because that's what they have to do to get things done), then it's okay to use a black dildo! But it still better go in your ass!
That's accountability to your constituency!
I'm not even going to bother trying to wrap my mind around your dildo fascination to figure out what your point is. Maybe stating it differently will help. Or not. Whatever, I'm a user, not a cop.
But you DO know what the point is! Sometimes the symbolism of dildo usage is the only way to explain what they do up there!
I hate Republicans almost as much as Democrats.
Remember this, I will say it as many times as I have to:
"YOU WILL NEVER HATE ALL OF THEM AS MUCH AS I!"