Government Shut Down
By snowy
@snowy22315 (169935)
United States
December 23, 2018 8:46am CST
What a ridiculous thing, once again we have our crazed president bowing to the radical right, and costing everybody money. My son works for a government contractor and he is forced to take unpaid leave when the govt. shuts down. It is bad, bad, bad. What are your feelings on this?
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7 responses
@snowy22315 (169935)
• United States
23 Dec 18
Well the good thing is essential services continue.
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@moffittjc (118435)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Dec 18
I know it sucks that they are out of work right before Christmas. I'm not a Trump supporter, but he is not fully to blame for the shutdown. Congress is the body that is responsible for passing a budget, and they could not come to an agreement on a temporary budget to avoid the shutdown. So Congress needs to shoulder a good portion of the blame. But regardless of who is to blame, it is not a good situation right now for federal workers and contractors.
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@snowy22315 (169935)
• United States
23 Dec 18
Actually, I think they had approved or were about to approve a stop gap measure..without Trump deciding to put a monkeywrench into everything we wouldn't be in this situation. I do not blame Congress one bit on this one honestly.
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@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
23 Dec 18
He IS fully to blame for this shutdown and he said on national TV he would be proud to own it. Everyone heard it. The shutdown is his, ALL his. He's a liar, so changing his stance on Twitter doesn't mean diddly-squat.
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@moffittjc (118435)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Dec 18
@snowy22315 I blame everybody at the federal level. Whether republican or democrat, nobody can get along anymore, and nobody is trying to find compromise or work in the best interest of the country. And of course Trump isn't helping the situation either.
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@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
23 Dec 18
The celebrity president is listening to his advisors at Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter again. They shamed him and it worked. He is doing all he can to cling to his 'best BASE buddies' hoping he gets re-elected, because a sitting president supposedly cannot be indicted, and they are falling all around him.
Hope he is enjoying his holiday in chilly, cloudy DC, since he won't be able to take his 2 weeks in sunny Mar-a-Lago. 
@snowy22315 (169935)
• United States
23 Dec 18
Yes, that is exactly who is behind this. No one seems to care about the enormous burden we are placing on future generations with this reckless conduct.
@snowy22315 (169935)
• United States
23 Dec 18
@amadeo it couldn't realistically happen until the Democrats controlled the house..besides Trump's lawyers are stalling everything.
@amadeo (111948)
• United States
23 Dec 18
@snowy22315 I know why is this taking so long.
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@snowy22315 (169935)
• United States
23 Dec 18
I hear you..you could always puts lots of asterisks in it..lol
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Dec 18
This is pretty terrible. Some of these guys have no idea how the real world works.
