Hey, with all the hoopla about Libya, I totally lost sight of the fact that the federal government is going to shut down on April 8. This is because Pazza Pelosi and her lackeys failed to even submit a 2011 budget last year -- even shopaholics get fed up, I guess -- so there's no funding for the feds this year.
Then the Republicans won the House back in November, with a very strong public mandate to cut federal spending. So the Republicans submit budgets to cover the feds through the end of October this year, all of them chock full of budget cuts. But all they've managed to the dems to agree to so far are "CR," continuing resolution budgets that keep the lights on for a couple weeks each.
The latest 2011 budget the Republicans in the House have submitted includes something like $61 BILLION in cuts. The bill got through the House and has support of Republicans in the Senate. However, the dems in the Senate are divided. After all, the dems witnessed the slaughter of the November election, so many of them are trying to restrain from going hog wild and busting the country. However, their leadership -- irresponsible assholes like New York's Chickenshit Schumer and Dickhead Durbin from Illinois, as well as clueless Nero Reid -- want to encourage spending the USA into total bankruptcy. So there's a stalemate.
The dems, I think, want to see the federal government shut down. They believe the whole nation will go, "Oh my God, what will we do without them?" They think it just might help their pathetic standing in the polls. They think the nation will applaud, seeing them rush in with trillion-dollar spending bills to "save the day." (More like "spend the day," really.)
When actually, after the first two and half years of the Comrade's term we're really all going, "Thank God the government will shut down before they stop us on the highway and steal our lunch and gas money, too!"
And you realize, of course, that all this shucking and jiving is just about a budget for this year -- from now to the end of October. My sweetheart, Paul Ryan, is right now working to put together a budget for 2012, and the 2012 budget will have the big policy changes (hopefully) and the major restructuring of the US's tamagotchi-like entitlement programs, etc. The big policy changes necessary to address Social Insecurity and Medicare just can't be included in the 2011 -- just not possible. In those cases, policy and not just a budget have to be considered.
'Course, the Republicans could push something through the way the dems jammed socialized medicine through. But possibly the Republicans just don't have quite the same stomach for destroying legislative processes in the way the dems did.
So anyway, the fed's latest two-week allowance runs out on April 8. If the dems fail to get anything through the Senate by that time, the federal government will shut down. However, the military will continue to be funded, Social Insecurity and Medicare will continue to be paid. But bye-bye National Endowment for the Arts and the $32 BILLION high-speed rail boondoggle. Aw, gee....
So I'm hoping the IRS is on the list of "non-essential" services. Imagine, a week before the bloodred-letter day of April 15, and the IRS will be on vacation!
And while the fed is closed for business, maybe the oil companies should just go ahead and drill, since their babysitters in the overfed. bloated, gouty executive branch won't be available to do much on the permit paperwork. Maybe all those billions the Comrade wants us to hand over to Brazil to develop its oil production resources, so that we can hand over even more cash to them to buy our own damn Gulf oil back from them, also will fail -- no government ankle-biters to implement this useless, crazy-ass giveaway scheme.
Don't you just love it!
As I said before, Shut 'er down!
Save the Republic.
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