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Here’s Veritas Omnia Vincit and his thoughts on the current partial government shut-down.<\/p>\n
The Wall and the Shutdown…
\n…aka a pissing contest over pennies.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe shutdown looms ever larger each and every day in our national news and I suspect it has an effect on the lives of some of you here at TAH. With Coast Guard and government paychecks being withheld some folks have to be hurting at this point. Not everyone is well prepared for a couple of months of no pay.<\/p>\n
For that I am truly sorry, there\u2019s never a fair reason to hurt the people least able to defend themselves especially due to the inaction of others in the performance of their sworn duty.<\/p>\n
In the past I\u2019ve often offered alternate viewpoints to the popular opinions on this site as to why I think an issue has played out the way it has, often to relatively poor reviews and I own that. On this issue however, I can find nothing from the Democrats but hypocrisy regarding the sudden lack of support for the wall. I once again find this issue to be an extension of the current Democrat party platform that appears to have only one single, solitary, sad little plank that simply states: \u201cBut we\u2019re not Trump\u201d well maybe there is a second plank in that platform that says, \u201cTrump is bad, bad, bad\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been reviewing some recent history (the last couple of decades or so) to read what has been said by respected Democrats regarding immigration. One of my favorites is this little gem, \u201cWe simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants\u2026\u201d when I first head freshman Senator Obama speak those words, I thought to myself here\u2019s a Democrat who gets \u201cit\u201d. Who understands the distinction between legal immigration and illegal immigration, and doesn\u2019t call them \u201ctemporary guest workers\u201d like the jelly-spined Bush had called them during his speeches.<\/p>\n
Even the \u201cno sack\u201d Senator from New York, Schumer, said this in 2009, \u201cPeople who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.\u201d Pelosi said, \u201cI agree with my colleagues that we must curb illegal immigration responsibly and effectively. Senator Feinstein said, \u201cthe rich tapestry of this country must continue to be woven by people who come to this country legally\u201d and Babs Boxer added, \u201cstates like California which bear most of the burden of illegal immigration should not be left alone to deal with this national problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
So clearly Democrats were for some form of border security before they were against it, which again leads me to believe this is simply another expression of blatant hypocrisy to score political points against the man who defeated their queen.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve all heard the same nonsense recently about the wall not working and that the other less secure points of entry are more of an issue which seems like an endorsement of the wall to me, if you build a wall which requires less personnel to patrol you\u2019d free those resources to be utilized at those other more vulnerable points.<\/p>\n
And the money, oh my all that money 5.7 billion is a lot of money right?<\/p>\n
Indeed it\u2019s about 17 bucks per citizen of the US\u2026since our debt load per citizen is currently 66,855 it would seem 17 dollars is a rather paltry sum in comparison. In fact the sum total of the budget is 4.407 trillion which means that 5.7 billion for the wall is about a tenth of a one percent of the budget.<\/p>\n
The wall and its lack of funding have nothing to do with Democrats concern of fiscal responsibility, it has nothing to do with Democrats in favor of illegal immigration, and more importantly it has nothing to do with a lack of concern over national security. It is nothing more than another attempt to score political points at the expense of the people they claim to represent.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m always fascinated over the things people choose to go to war over, parking spaces, lunch room refrigerators, co-workers use of perfume or cologne, or pennies in a budget.<\/p>\n
Who will be the winners and who will be the losers in this latest shit show remain to be seen, but stay tuned because I doubt things will calm down even after the government re-opens for business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Dems sudden conversion to fiscal hawks is pretty amusing, and as VoV points out, the $5.7B USD is a rounding error in the US budget.<\/p>\n
Thanks, VoV, and keep ’em coming, buddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"