What has been the impact of the shut down on you personally?
Posted by preimert1 5 years, 3 months ago to Government
The government has been "shut down" for over a week now and I have not suffered any inconvenience. Do you suppose the "nonessential personnel" really are nonessential? Have any gulchers noticed any disruption in their personal lives?
In other news, I finally just figured out your moniker.
Turning off the heat . . . well, you must be a special kind of evil.
Cheers!
If you have ever seen the original Buford Pusser, Walking Tall movie you will see my. Idea in action. Buford Pusser was a sheriff in a rural Tennessee county that was run by moonshiners in the 60s and early 70s . He had a judge who was leaking information about his search warrants to Moonshiners, so old Buford checked with the law books and found out that he was in charge of deciding where the office space was for the judge. So he had the judges desk and Furnishings all moved to a basement men's room in the courthouse. Well the judge wasn't going for that and made a big fuss about it but it didn't do him any good I think he eventually retired. This is supposedly an actual true story.
Right now I'm far more concerned about a health issue I'm beating and wondering what I owe after my health insurance takes care of business. Glad I don't have that Obamanation Care.
The only thing that would upset me is the Tangerine Tornado backing down from building that wall, steel slat fence or whatever. Pretty sure that he will never do.
Last night I heard Hannity say that in about 90 days the public will be viewing efforts to Impeach Trump for looking like it's run by idiots.
Hope he is right.
Hope so. Me dino likes to laugh at all the pathetic donkey brains in the Jackass Party.
As I understand it, Charles Francis Adams basically gave the land up to the government. That was a mistake. A lot of other U.S. Presidential homes are under private maintenance, so the shutdown doesn't affect them. They include without limitation: Mount Vernon, Monticello, James K. Polk's residence in Columbia, Tenn., and Andrew Jackson's Hermitage.
This could be a bang-up opportunity to encourage voluntary educational charities to buy some of these shrines away from the National Park Service so that this sort of silly business never affects them again. That would be what they get out of it. What we get out of it, is additional privatization of that which the government should never have arrogated to itself.
Quincy, you might enjoy Sam Adams' Brewery in Boston. It's privately owned, ;)
https://www.citybrewtours.com/boston/...
All the folks affected by this phony shut down should be in DC carrying signs saying "NO WALL-NO WORK" and enjoying their paid vacation.
I hope the ultra-looting employees never get recalled and are forced to find productive work in the competitive private sector. (Flipping burgers)
The "WALL", "FENCE", "CONCRETE BARRIER" must be built. I support what POTUS is doing!!
But anyone hoping that an IRS shutdown means getting a breather on their taxes will be disappointed. The agency's website says taxpayers "should file and pay their taxes as normal."
As a CPA who was involved in creating new filing forms based on IRS instructions as laws changed, I can tell you that if the IRS hasen't updated their forms, it's LITERALLY impossible to file, either on paper or electronically. You simply cannot file 2018 taxes on a 2017 form or efile (especially with all the changes that have occurred in 2018). So I am in no hurry to get them back to work but I also have no interest in being penalized for filing "late" because they didn't get the forms updated. Depending on how late they are, I feel for my previous co-workers in the tax industry (not government employees). They are charged with getting it right and ON TIME, no matter the hours needed to catch up with government incompetence. They will be working long and hard.
I still remember the year I worked both Xmas and Thanksgiving days.
See
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/governme...
You tell me which of these you need. And, OK, I'll give you the Treasury, Defense, and Justice.
Federal Executive Departments
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Department of Commerce (DOC)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Department of Education (ED)
Department of Energy (DOE)
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Department of Justice (DOJ)
Department of Labor (DOL)
Department of State (DOS)
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Department of the Treasury
Department of Transportation (DOT)
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Federal Independent Agencies and Corporations
Administrative Conference of the United States
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
African Development Foundation
AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Commission on Civil Rights
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Corporation for National and Community Service
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Director of National Intelligence
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Farm Credit Administration
Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Federal Labor Relations Authority
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
Federal Reserve System
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
General Services Administration (GSA)
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Inter-American Foundation
Merit Systems Protection Board
Millennium Challenge Corporation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
National Capital Planning Commission
National Council on Disability
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
National Mediation Board
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Transportation Safety Board
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Office of Compliance
Office of Government Ethics
Office of Personnel Management
Office of Special Counsel
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Panama Canal Commission
Peace Corps
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Postal Regulatory Commission
Railroad Retirement Board
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Selective Service System
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Tennessee Valley Authority
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
United States Agency for International Development
United States International Trade Commission
United States Postal Service (USPS)
67 Federal Boards, Commissions, and Advisory Committees
(Mostly volunteers from the communities: Citizens Stamp Committee, for instance. They do entail some operational costs, even if the work of management is freely given.)
Additional Advisory Committees cost about $350 Million per year
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/249...
Quasi-Official Agencies
Legal Services Corporation
Smithsonian Institution
State Justice Institute
United States Institute of Peace
SEE
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/E...
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If you have a job or grant for one, you really need it. It's worthwhile to lobby to keep the tragedy of a sudden loss of it from happen. It's not worthwhile for everyone else to lobby for their penny back.
Two weeks ago I gave the Miraflores visitor's center $64 for my family to see the locks. But I didn't get to send less with the 1040-ES that was due Jan 15.
I'm one of those people who would actually be for sending them money if they were helping people in need and helping those people fleeing El Salvador-- not as alms, but because we pay one way or another; and I want everyone to be free.
It's worthwhile to lobby for a penny from every household in the country. It's not worthwhile for people to lobby for it back.
I don't for a moment believe any narrative with President Trump standing up to this. He supported increased spending and borrowing. And his deplorables didn't send in big quarterly estimates. They're paying nothing but Social Security payroll taxes and kvetching about the places that pay the bills, the irony apparently completely lost on them.