How the Republican Government shutdown works

[easyt65]

Can you name the specific Obama programs that led to this massive debt?

I'd like to see them

President Obama added over $6 Trillion to the national debt in only 4 years, and that is after declaring Bush to be 'Un-Patriotic' for adding only $4 Trillion in 8 (EIGHT) years...during 2 wars, 9/11/01, and the economic shutdown caused by 9/11/01. (Liberals never like to talk about how the govt control the nation's purse strings and that DEMOCRATS controlled that budget and those purse strings with a super-majority control of the House and Senate for the last 2 years of the Bush administration through the 1st 2 years of the Obama administration...so any economic dip experienced that Obama inherited was OWNED by the Democratic party that controlled both houses of Congress....NOT BUSH!)

OBAMA (and his Democrats running Congress) set national records for 'Monthly', 'Annual', and 'Total' deficit Spending. Obama added more debt in his 1st 4 years than EVERY US President from Washington to Bush ... COMBINED!

Obama's FAILED Stimulus Bill, falsely 'sold' as a jobs creation bill, cost nearly $1 TRILLION Dollars ($875 BILLION) and contained an Obama-Promise-Breaking 7,000 pieces of DNC-ONLY PORK. It contained such FAILED programs as 'Cash for Clunkers' which caused used car prices to sky rocket (used cars turned in were destroyed - hurting poor families who could not afford new cars) .. and in the end the cost to taxpayers for EVERY JOB claimed to have been 'created / saved' was $742,000!

That's a good start.... NOW please start making excuses, whining, defending Obama, declaring 'uh-uh', and claiming how Obama was just another 'victim' who was handed a bad hand (by a DNC super-Majority-controlled Congress, not Bush), how he was forced at gunpoint to pass the Stimulus bill, how it was somehow Bush's fault that the US Credit Rating was down-graded for the 1st time in US history even though it was Obama who was warned that if he failed to accept more budget cuts to show he was serious about lowering the deficit (which he refused to do) that it would result in the down-grade!

Show us some more of that buck-passing, liberal lack of accountability, and 'disease' that is demonstrated by always blaming a man who hasn't been President for nearly a decade rather than addressing the guy who has been in office for the last 7 years and who is in office NOW! Tell us again how Obama has been an asterisk in the history books as US President because he has been completely over-shadowed as a victim of the Bush administration! LOL! (Carter may be dying, but at least he can die happy now knowing he won't go down in history as the worst President, that Obama has taken that title from him before he passes!)

 

[jknowgood]

Obama went out of his way to make the average american suffer, because he is an immature little brat. That's why.

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

What makes the WW2 memorial an essential function?

It's an open air memorial, it doesn't need a federal employee there all the time. Obama put a full time guard there to keep veterans out, but let a illegal immigration march proceed.

 

[Disir]

Reflects on how inept an institution Congress is.

And that is what is going to hand it to him. For all the noise and the stage, this is going to kick the GOP so far in the ass that they will have a hard time recovering from it-especially if Cruz has anything to do with it.

 

[rightwinger]

Obama went out of his way to make the average american suffer, because he is an immature little brat. That's why.

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

What makes the WW2 memorial an essential function?

What's an 'Essential' Government Service?

In the event of a shutdown, every government agency is responsible for determining which jobs under their umbrella fit the following criteria for what's absolutely necessary to keep America running:

• Providing for the national security, including the conduct of foreign relations essential to the national security or the safety of life and property.
• Benefit payments and the performance of certain contract obligations
• Medical care of inpatients and emergency outpatient care
• Conducting activities to ensure continued public health and safety, including safe use of food, drugs and hazardous materials
• Air traffic control and other transportation safety functions
• Border and coastal protection and surveillance
• Protection of federal lands, buildings, waterways, equipment and other property owned by the United States
• Care of prisoners and other persons in the custody of the United States
• Law enforcement and criminal investigations
• Emergency and disaster assistance
• Activities that ensure production of power and maintenance of the power distribution system
• Activities essential to the preservation of the essential elements of the money and banking system of the United States, including borrowing and
  tax collection activities of the Treasury
• Activities necessary to maintain protection of research property.

Employees who get rated "essential" are still allowed to report to work, whereas everyone else is barred from performing their duties, even if they offer to do so for free.

 

[rightwinger]

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

What makes the WW2 memorial an essential function?

It's an open air memorial, it doesn't need a federal employee there all the time. Obama put a full time guard there to keep veterans out, but let a illegal immigration march proceed.

You don't understand

Obama is only allowed to have essential employees report for work during a shutdown. There is nothing essential about visiting parks. Protecting parks is considered essential

The WW2 memorial is open air. So is the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial. They are all closed in a shutdown and guards are posted to protect the property

 

[TheOldSchool]

That was a good one....Gingrich shut down government because he had to ride in the back of Airforce One

Why, out of all government functions, are Republicans only concerned about parks?

Obama went out of his way to make the average american suffer, because he is an immature little brat. That's why.

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

That's ridiculous. There is security at the memorial right now. Take away maintenance and security from it for a couple weeks while leaving it open and it will be covered in litter and grafiti.

 

[bodecea]

That was a good one....Gingrich shut down government because he had to ride in the back of Airforce One

Why, out of all government functions, are Republicans only concerned about parks?

Obama went out of his way to make the average american suffer, because he is an immature little brat. That's why.

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

So...you have no problem with allowing monuments to be unsupervised and let vandalism go. There is always a big issue with vandalism in Washington DC unless there's security around. You didn't know that?

 

[nuhuh]

Can you name the specific Obama programs that led to this massive debt?

I'd like to see them

President Obama added over $6 Trillion to the national debt in only 4 years, and that is after declaring Bush to be 'Un-Patriotic' for adding only $4 Trillion in 8 (EIGHT) years...during 2 wars, 9/11/01, and the economic shutdown caused by 9/11/01. (Liberals never like to talk about how the govt control the nation's purse strings and that DEMOCRATS controlled that budget and those purse strings with a super-majority control of the House and Senate for the last 2 years of the Bush administration through the 1st 2 years of the Obama administration...so any economic dip experienced that Obama inherited was OWNED by the Democratic party that controlled both houses of Congress....NOT BUSH!)

OBAMA (and his Democrats running Congress) set national records for 'Monthly', 'Annual', and 'Total' deficit Spending. Obama added more debt in his 1st 4 years than EVERY US President from Washington to Bush ... COMBINED!

Obama's FAILED Stimulus Bill, falsely 'sold' as a jobs creation bill, cost nearly $1 TRILLION Dollars ($875 BILLION) and contained an Obama-Promise-Breaking 7,000 pieces of DNC-ONLY PORK. It contained such FAILED programs as 'Cash for Clunkers' which caused used car prices to sky rocket (used cars turned in were destroyed - hurting poor families who could not afford new cars) .. and in the end the cost to taxpayers for EVERY JOB claimed to have been 'created / saved' was $742,000!

That's a good start.... NOW please start making excuses, whining, defending Obama, declaring 'uh-uh', and claiming how Obama was just another 'victim' who was handed a bad hand (by a DNC super-Majority-controlled Congress, not Bush), how he was forced at gunpoint to pass the Stimulus bill, how it was somehow Bush's fault that the US Credit Rating was down-graded for the 1st time in US history even though it was Obama who was warned that if he failed to accept more budget cuts to show he was serious about lowering the deficit (which he refused to do) that it would result in the down-grade!

Show us some more of that buck-passing, liberal lack of accountability, and 'disease' that is demonstrated by always blaming a man who hasn't been President for nearly a decade rather than addressing the guy who has been in office for the last 7 years and who is in office NOW! Tell us again how Obama has been an asterisk in the history books as US President because he has been completely over-shadowed as a victim of the Bush administration! LOL! (Carter may be dying, but at least he can die happy now knowing he won't go down in history as the worst President, that Obama has taken that title from him before he passes!)

When Bush left office the national debt was $10.6 Trillion he was responsible for all of that. Why didn't he balance the national books like all custodians of debt are supposed to?

 

[jknowgood]

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

What makes the WW2 memorial an essential function?

It's an open air memorial, it doesn't need a federal employee there all the time. Obama put a full time guard there to keep veterans out, but let a illegal immigration march proceed.

You don't understand

Obama is only allowed to have essential employees report for work during a shutdown. There is nothing essential about visiting parks. Protecting parks is considered essential

The WW2 memorial is open air. So is the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial. They are all closed in a shutdown and guards are posted to protect the property

Clinton didn't shut down open air memorials or monuments.

 

[jknowgood]

Obama went out of his way to make the average american suffer, because he is an immature little brat. That's why.

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

So...you have no problem with allowing monuments to be unsupervised and let vandalism go. There is always a big issue with vandalism in Washington DC unless there's security around. You didn't know that?

Clinton didn't seem to worry about it.

 

[bendog]

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

So...you have no problem with allowing monuments to be unsupervised and let vandalism go. There is always a big issue with vandalism in Washington DC unless there's security around. You didn't know that?

Clinton didn't seem to worry about it.

Of course not, because he beat out Newt's brains with it. There's a hint there.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Every time that someone in Washington tries to do the responsible thing and rein in Federal spending even SLIGHTLY you folks on the left who love big government start hyperventilating about how cutting government programs will be the end of world as we know it!

Barack Obama's put this country further in debt than most of the Presidents who preceded him combined! Spending money on a budget you can't afford is easy...you're just kicking the can down the road for someone else to deal with...a specialty of this President!

Can you name the specific Obama programs that led to this massive debt?

I'd like to see them

4 trillion of his 8 trillion went to wall street.

Interesting point

Do you have a link that the debt is due to quantiatative easing?

80 billion a month for 5 years qe 1,2,3. Was that just freebies printed by the fed to wall street?

 

[jknowgood]

Obama went out of his way to make the average american suffer, because he is an immature little brat. That's why.

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

That's ridiculous. There is security at the memorial right now. Take away maintenance and security from it for a couple weeks while leaving it open and it will be covered in litter and grafiti.

There was a guy that cut grass at the ww2 memorial. So there is a security guard 24/7 at all the memorials and monuments right now?

 

[rightwinger]

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

What makes the WW2 memorial an essential function?

It's an open air memorial, it doesn't need a federal employee there all the time. Obama put a full time guard there to keep veterans out, but let a illegal immigration march proceed.

You don't understand

Obama is only allowed to have essential employees report for work during a shutdown. There is nothing essential about visiting parks. Protecting parks is considered essential

The WW2 memorial is open air. So is the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial. They are all closed in a shutdown and guards are posted to protect the property

Clinton didn't shut down open air memorials or monuments.

Link

I don't see how Clinton justified parks as essential services

 

[rightwinger]

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

That's ridiculous. There is security at the memorial right now. Take away maintenance and security from it for a couple weeks while leaving it open and it will be covered in litter and grafiti.

There was a guy that cut grass at the ww2 memorial. So there is a security guard 24/7 at all the memorials and monuments right now?

The guys who cut grass are not federal employees, they are contractors not affected by a shutdown

Yes, there are guards at memorials and monuments 24/7. Try visiting them after dark. There is always a guard to keep an eye on you

 

[jknowgood]

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

What makes the WW2 memorial an essential function?

It's an open air memorial, it doesn't need a federal employee there all the time. Obama put a full time guard there to keep veterans out, but let a illegal immigration march proceed.

You don't understand

Obama is only allowed to have essential employees report for work during a shutdown. There is nothing essential about visiting parks. Protecting parks is considered essential

The WW2 memorial is open air. So is the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial. They are all closed in a shutdown and guards are posted to protect the property

Clinton didn't shut down open air memorials or monuments.

Link

I don't see how Clinton justified parks as essential services

I said open air memorials or monuments. I don't know about parks. They do take employees to run those. I would have to look that up, but Obama made sure that veteran's wouldn't get to see the ww2 memorial. Some for the first and last time. Shame on Obama and the people that support him.

 

[rightwinger]

What makes the WW2 memorial an essential function?

It's an open air memorial, it doesn't need a federal employee there all the time. Obama put a full time guard there to keep veterans out, but let a illegal immigration march proceed.

You don't understand

Obama is only allowed to have essential employees report for work during a shutdown. There is nothing essential about visiting parks. Protecting parks is considered essential

The WW2 memorial is open air. So is the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial. They are all closed in a shutdown and guards are posted to protect the property

Clinton didn't shut down open air memorials or monuments.

Link

I don't see how Clinton justified parks as essential services

I said open air memorials or monuments. I don't know about parks. They do take employees to run those. I would have to look that up, but Obama made sure that veteran's wouldn't get to see the ww2 memorial. Some for the first and last time. Shame on Obama and the people that support him.

They are still under the parks system and non-essential. The government shutdown was in all the papers. Anyone visiting Washington should have checked whats open. People missed out on the Capital, museums, Washington Monument...everything in the mall. Not just the WW2 memorial was affected by the Republican shutdown

You still haven't explained why you think monuments are essential

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

It's an open air memorial, it doesn't need a federal employee there all the time. Obama put a full time guard there to keep veterans out, but let a illegal immigration march proceed.

You don't understand

Obama is only allowed to have essential employees report for work during a shutdown. There is nothing essential about visiting parks. Protecting parks is considered essential

The WW2 memorial is open air. So is the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial. They are all closed in a shutdown and guards are posted to protect the property

Clinton didn't shut down open air memorials or monuments.

Link

I don't see how Clinton justified parks as essential services

I said open air memorials or monuments. I don't know about parks. They do take employees to run those. I would have to look that up, but Obama made sure that veteran's wouldn't get to see the ww2 memorial. Some for the first and last time. Shame on Obama and the people that support him.

They are still under the parks system and non-essential. The government shutdown was in all the papers. Anyone visiting Washington should have checked whats open. People missed out on the Capital, museums, Washington Monument...everything in the mall. Not just the WW2 memorial was affected by the Republican shutdown

You still haven't explained why you think monuments are essential

Who cares? In the end all it was was an extended vacation for government bloodsuckers.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Closing parks is suffering?
How about delaying medical claims, retiree benefits or closing counselling centers?

All unnecessary government jobs are cut. Guess who picks what's unnecessary? Obama thought it was necessary to put guards up at the ww2 war memorial to keep veterans away from it.

Security is identified as an essential function. Opening the parks is not

There is no need for security at the ww2 monument. Obama hates our veterans and this proved how much.

That's ridiculous. There is security at the memorial right now. Take away maintenance and security from it for a couple weeks while leaving it open and it will be covered in litter and grafiti.

There was a guy that cut grass at the ww2 memorial. So there is a security guard 24/7 at all the memorials and monuments right now?

Yes there is security 24/7. Imagine what conservatives would have done to the Lincoln memorial by now if there was no security.

 

[TheOldSchool]

You don't understand

Obama is only allowed to have essential employees report for work during a shutdown. There is nothing essential about visiting parks. Protecting parks is considered essential

The WW2 memorial is open air. So is the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial. They are all closed in a shutdown and guards are posted to protect the property

Clinton didn't shut down open air memorials or monuments.

Link

I don't see how Clinton justified parks as essential services

I said open air memorials or monuments. I don't know about parks. They do take employees to run those. I would have to look that up, but Obama made sure that veteran's wouldn't get to see the ww2 memorial. Some for the first and last time. Shame on Obama and the people that support him.

They are still under the parks system and non-essential. The government shutdown was in all the papers. Anyone visiting Washington should have checked whats open. People missed out on the Capital, museums, Washington Monument...everything in the mall. Not just the WW2 memorial was affected by the Republican shutdown

You still haven't explained why you think monuments are essential

Who cares? In the end all it was was an extended vacation for government bloodsuckers.

Yup. Bravo Raffy Cruz.