LETTER TO THE EDITOR / THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
Roger C. Kostmayer
Pressure builds from the bottom up. Citizens, voters, constituents and donors, many of whom are being hurt by the shutdown, are increasing their demands that politicians do their job, open the government and pay federal employees. When Senators feel this pressure (and they’re beginning to) they, in turn, pressure Senate Leader McConnell to allow them to vote on a solution. At some point, McConnell will realize that the Republicans could lose Senate seats in 2020 because of the Trump shutdown, and that could mean McConnell would no longer be Leader. Then, and only then, will he allow the Senate to vote on a bipartisan compromise and tell the President the shutdown is over – with or without his vanity wall.
For their part, the Democrats must stay united and protect principle while producing pragmatic results. The principle is that there can be no bipartisan negotiations & compromise while the government is closed and hundreds of thousands of American families have not been paid for their work. In addition to the obvious human reasons for holding the line, is the real danger that by failing to do so they would create a disastrous precedent encouraging future leaders of both parties to get what they want by shutting down the U.S. government.
The legislative compromise that would begin immediately following the reopening, should include additional funds for: border and port security, immigration judges, reinstitution of permanent “Dreamer” solutions (DACA) , and even some (high tech or physical) border protections that could be referred to as – “the wall”.
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“Pressure builds from the bottom up. Citizens, voters, constituents and donors, many of whom are being hurt by the shutdown, are increasing their demands that politicians do their job, open the government and pay federal employees.”
Only if you live in la la land. Take another toke or refill the glass.
I haven’t missed one thing these furloughed federal employees do in my daily life.
The question begs to be asked “why have these federal employees at all”.
While we are at it, why not put out to pasture some of the dead wood SES’ (Senior Executive Staff, the Government behind the government) civil service workers too.
Furloughed employees inspect your food, keepbaircraft from falling out of the sky, provide coastline security and water safety, keep our parks clean, and a thousand other valuable things. John needs to get his nose out of Steve Bannon’s a$$.
Would you liberals make up your mind?
• Only a couple months ago, those same federal employees were ‘ripping children from their mother’s arms;
• keeping children in cages;
• arresting and deporting good illegals from the interior of the US;
• tear gassing border invaders.
Now you want those same people to keep their jobs? Liberals must have split personalities.
George, are you and Roger dating?
Nice deflection, John
So now you support ICE, border security and deportations; as before you were against ICE, for open borders and sanctuary cities.
After all they are enforced by federal employees! Thank you for coming around!
If Liberals are so God like and PC, then why don’t they all offer to house the illegals in their homes, feed them, let them breed in bedrooms number two, three and four, then give them all the free stuff they want without hampering them in any way? Yeah right!
Build the Wall
Another good idea, if we shy from posting military border guards along the border, is to deputize the ranchers along the border. That alone would go a long way toward sealing the porous border. They would enforce the stand your ground rule at the federal level better than rent-a-cops who accomplish little more than to play the ‘catch and release’ game.
Turtles are slow and methodical, but he got us there (for now)!
The medieval wall was a lame political stunt to stir up the simple-minded. How about more funds for new technology and added personnel at ports of entry where major problems exist?
While passive/technological measures are needed, along with more border guards (ICE), a physical obstruction is the first and sine qua non delineation of our sovereign space. First things first. First a barrier, then palliative measures to supplement it.
Those, however, are not the chief issue at hand. It is a ad-nauseam blame game to conceal the lack of political will to seal the border and to erect credible and convincing measures that keep uninvited guests out. It that was not the case, the issue would have long ago been resolved.
Those who are opposed to the concept of the nation state and aim to erase borders and stand up a world headquarters will not relent till their cherished John Lennon’s song is actualized – Imagine all the people…Unfortunately, the world isn’t a utopian universe. Make no mistake about it, lest intruders sought what we have, they would not press forward and would work at making their country/ies more viable.
We have a Consulate in each and every country from which migrants are emanating. Why would they not apply there from the outset and spare themselves and us a debacle at the border? Ask yourself that not so irrelevant question first and foremost. Then inquire as to who is behind the orchestration and material support to the migrant caravans. Answers might surprise you if you truly wanted to get to the bottom of that rabbit hole.
http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2019/01/24/pope-heads-to-caravan-country-to-push-central-american-migration/
I recall Jesuit priests who were preaching liberation theology to poor campesinos in Nicaragua and other Latin American countries. They were actively encourating an insurrection against the northern oligarchs. The same Jesuit order, mind you, were simulataneously preching a vehemantly right wing theology in Eeaster Europe (Poland, Chech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia).
When you play both sides against the middle, you can’t lose. Is this where some of our politicians have learned how to play the Ying-Yang game?
The wall is a distraction. Follow the money (not the bouncing ball). President & his backers are pushing back against the “liberal banking financier, wall street parasitic order” [my term –
“Judeo-Christian/Western banking cabal]. Is Bretton Woods system dead & shifting to a Pacific Rim gold and precious metal backed financial system ? That’s what we should be discussing. Daniel Estulin [conceptual intelligence] has some interesting perspectives on this.
Yes Ron. It’s all about carving out a constituency. How else can they sell their wares to an otherwise wise clientele.