Government Shutdown? 36 Facts Which Prove That Almost
Everything Is
Still Running
By Michael Snyder (The Economic Collapse Blog | Original Link) October 3, 2013
http://www.thetradingreport.com/2013/10/03/government-shutdown-36-facts-which-prove-that-almost-everything-is-still-running/
All of this whining and crying about a “government shutdown” is a
total joke. You see, there really is very little reason why this
“government shutdown” cannot continue indefinitely because almost
everything is still running. 63 percent of all federal workers are
still working, and 85 percent of all government activities are still
being funded during this “shutdown”. Yes, the Obama administration
has been making a big show of taking down government websites and
blocking off the World War II Memorial, but overall business in
Washington D.C. is being conducted pretty much as usual. It turns out
that the definition of “essential personnel” has expanded so much over
the years that almost everyone is considered “essential” at this
point. In fact, this shutdown is such a non-event that even referring
to it as a “partial government shutdown” would really be overstating
what is actually happening.
The following are 36 facts which prove that almost everything is still
running during this government shutdown…
#1 According to U.S. Senator Rand Paul, 85 percent of all government
activities are actually being funded during this “government
shutdown”.
#2 Approximately 1,350,000 ”essential” federal employees will continue
to work during this “government shutdown”.
#3 Overall, 63 percent of the federal workforce will continue to work
during this “government shutdown”.
#4 The U.S. Postal Service will continue to deliver our mail.
#5 U.S. military personnel will remain on duty and will continue to get paid.
#6 Social Security recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#7 Medicare recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#8 Medicaid recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#9 Food stamp recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#10 Those on unemployment will continue to get their benefits.
#11 Federal retirees will continue to get their pensions.
#12 The federal school lunch program has enough money to go through at
least the end of this month.
#13 Public schools all over the country will continue to stay open.
#14 Almost all federal law enforcement officials will continue working.
#15 The Federal Reserve will remain “completely functional“.
#16 The Supreme Court will continue to operate normally and federal
courts have enough money to keep going for at least two weeks.
#17 TSA employees will continue to molest travelers at our airports.
#18 Air traffic controllers will continue to monitor traffic at our airports.
#19 Hopelessly outmanned border patrol agents will continue to try to
stem the tide of illegal immigration.
#20 Visas and passports will continue to be issued by the State Department.
#21 The Veterans Administration will continue to offer substandard
medical services, and it will be able to continue processing benefit
payments at least for now.
#22 The Obama administration apparently has plenty of money to spend
on closing open-air memorials that are usually open to the public 24
hours a day.
#23 The Department of Defense announced the awarding of 94 new
contracts worth a combined total of more than 5 billion dollars on
September 30th – the day right before the “government shutdown”.
#24 The “government shutdown” has not prevented the new two billion
dollar NSA spy center from opening up.
#25 Federal prisons will continue to operate normally.
#26 Amtrak trains will continue to run.
#27 The Patent and Trademark Office will be open.
#28 The Consumer Product Safety Commission will continue to issue
product recalls if the products “create an immediate threat to the
safety of human life“.
#29 The National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Centerwill
continue to track weather patterns.
#30 If the federal government needs to respond to a natural disaster,
this “shutdown” will not affect that.
#31 NASA will continue to support the Mars Rover and the two American
astronauts up on the International Space Station.
#32 All city employees of the D.C. government have been deemed
“essential” and will continue to go to work.
#33 Even though the Obamacare exchanges are not working properly,
people will still be able to access them.
#34 The IRS will continue to collect taxes, but it will be suspending
punitive audits of conservative organizations.
#35 Barack Obama will continue to get paid for the full duration of
this “shutdown”.
#36 The U.S. Congress will continue to get paid for the full duration
of this “shutdown”.
Of course not everything is operating normally during this government
shutdown. Government parks are closed. The EPA and the Department of
Energy have almost totally closed up shop. But overall, most
Americans are not going to notice much of a difference.
And perhaps now is a good time for the American people to evaluate
whether or not they actually need a gigantic federal government that
wastes enormous mountains of our money.
For example, our federal government recently spent $98,670 to
construct a single outhouse in Alaska.
That is more than a lot of Americans pay for their entire houses.
For many more examples like this, please see my previous article
entitled “The Waste List: 66 Crazy Ways That The U.S. Government Is
Wasting Your Hard-Earned Money“.
It is about time that Washington D.C. started experiencing some of the
“belt-tightening” that the rest of the country has been going through.
For far too long, the fatcats in D.C. have been living in an
alternate reality where they have been able to live the high life at
our expense. A recent blog post by Daniel Greenfield discussed how
this shutdown is going to affect the alternate reality that the Obamas
have been living in…
The government shutdown has forced Obama to make do with only a
quarter of his 1,701 person staff. That would leave 436 “vital”
employees. The 90 people who look after his living quarters would be
slashed to 15 to “provide minimum maintenance and support”.
Buckingham Palace, which is twelve times the size of the White House
and has its own clockmaker, only has an 800 person staff. King Harald
V of Norway and his court make do with 152 staffers. King Carl XVI
Gustaf of Sweden gets by with 203.
On Twitter, Michelle Obama announced that she is unable to Tweet on
her own without the aid of all of her sixteen assistants; many of whom
take home six figure salaries. There are more directors, associate
directors and deputy associate directors on Michelle Obama’s staff
than there were in George Washington’s entire administration.
Presidents have fought wars and made peace, explored and annexed vast
territories and built a nation out of a handful of colonies with fewer
senior staffers than are needed to handle Michelle Obama’s Twitter
account.
Oh the humanity! Will Michelle Obama ever tweet again? And how will
the White House continue to function without at least one
projectionist on duty at the White House 24 hours a day?
No wonder Barack Obama is so upset about this shutdown.
In the end, this shutdown could turn out to be very good for America.
We have a government that is wildly out of control and that
desperately needs to be reigned in.
During the Obama administration, federal debt held by the public has
risen by 90 percent, and overall federal government spending has risen
by a whopping 317 percent since 1990.
So is it really a bad thing that the federal government has been
forced to cut back for a little while?
Our politicians can whine and cry all they want. They won’t be
getting any sympathy from me.
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Still Running
By Michael Snyder (The Economic Collapse Blog | Original Link) October 3, 2013
http://www.thetradingreport.com/2013/10/03/government-shutdown-36-facts-which-prove-that-almost-everything-is-still-running/
All of this whining and crying about a “government shutdown” is a
total joke. You see, there really is very little reason why this
“government shutdown” cannot continue indefinitely because almost
everything is still running. 63 percent of all federal workers are
still working, and 85 percent of all government activities are still
being funded during this “shutdown”. Yes, the Obama administration
has been making a big show of taking down government websites and
blocking off the World War II Memorial, but overall business in
Washington D.C. is being conducted pretty much as usual. It turns out
that the definition of “essential personnel” has expanded so much over
the years that almost everyone is considered “essential” at this
point. In fact, this shutdown is such a non-event that even referring
to it as a “partial government shutdown” would really be overstating
what is actually happening.
The following are 36 facts which prove that almost everything is still
running during this government shutdown…
#1 According to U.S. Senator Rand Paul, 85 percent of all government
activities are actually being funded during this “government
shutdown”.
#2 Approximately 1,350,000 ”essential” federal employees will continue
to work during this “government shutdown”.
#3 Overall, 63 percent of the federal workforce will continue to work
during this “government shutdown”.
#4 The U.S. Postal Service will continue to deliver our mail.
#5 U.S. military personnel will remain on duty and will continue to get paid.
#6 Social Security recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#7 Medicare recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#8 Medicaid recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#9 Food stamp recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#10 Those on unemployment will continue to get their benefits.
#11 Federal retirees will continue to get their pensions.
#12 The federal school lunch program has enough money to go through at
least the end of this month.
#13 Public schools all over the country will continue to stay open.
#14 Almost all federal law enforcement officials will continue working.
#15 The Federal Reserve will remain “completely functional“.
#16 The Supreme Court will continue to operate normally and federal
courts have enough money to keep going for at least two weeks.
#17 TSA employees will continue to molest travelers at our airports.
#18 Air traffic controllers will continue to monitor traffic at our airports.
#19 Hopelessly outmanned border patrol agents will continue to try to
stem the tide of illegal immigration.
#20 Visas and passports will continue to be issued by the State Department.
#21 The Veterans Administration will continue to offer substandard
medical services, and it will be able to continue processing benefit
payments at least for now.
#22 The Obama administration apparently has plenty of money to spend
on closing open-air memorials that are usually open to the public 24
hours a day.
#23 The Department of Defense announced the awarding of 94 new
contracts worth a combined total of more than 5 billion dollars on
September 30th – the day right before the “government shutdown”.
#24 The “government shutdown” has not prevented the new two billion
dollar NSA spy center from opening up.
#25 Federal prisons will continue to operate normally.
#26 Amtrak trains will continue to run.
#27 The Patent and Trademark Office will be open.
#28 The Consumer Product Safety Commission will continue to issue
product recalls if the products “create an immediate threat to the
safety of human life“.
#29 The National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Centerwill
continue to track weather patterns.
#30 If the federal government needs to respond to a natural disaster,
this “shutdown” will not affect that.
#31 NASA will continue to support the Mars Rover and the two American
astronauts up on the International Space Station.
#32 All city employees of the D.C. government have been deemed
“essential” and will continue to go to work.
#33 Even though the Obamacare exchanges are not working properly,
people will still be able to access them.
#34 The IRS will continue to collect taxes, but it will be suspending
punitive audits of conservative organizations.
#35 Barack Obama will continue to get paid for the full duration of
this “shutdown”.
#36 The U.S. Congress will continue to get paid for the full duration
of this “shutdown”.
Of course not everything is operating normally during this government
shutdown. Government parks are closed. The EPA and the Department of
Energy have almost totally closed up shop. But overall, most
Americans are not going to notice much of a difference.
And perhaps now is a good time for the American people to evaluate
whether or not they actually need a gigantic federal government that
wastes enormous mountains of our money.
For example, our federal government recently spent $98,670 to
construct a single outhouse in Alaska.
That is more than a lot of Americans pay for their entire houses.
For many more examples like this, please see my previous article
entitled “The Waste List: 66 Crazy Ways That The U.S. Government Is
Wasting Your Hard-Earned Money“.
It is about time that Washington D.C. started experiencing some of the
“belt-tightening” that the rest of the country has been going through.
For far too long, the fatcats in D.C. have been living in an
alternate reality where they have been able to live the high life at
our expense. A recent blog post by Daniel Greenfield discussed how
this shutdown is going to affect the alternate reality that the Obamas
have been living in…
The government shutdown has forced Obama to make do with only a
quarter of his 1,701 person staff. That would leave 436 “vital”
employees. The 90 people who look after his living quarters would be
slashed to 15 to “provide minimum maintenance and support”.
Buckingham Palace, which is twelve times the size of the White House
and has its own clockmaker, only has an 800 person staff. King Harald
V of Norway and his court make do with 152 staffers. King Carl XVI
Gustaf of Sweden gets by with 203.
On Twitter, Michelle Obama announced that she is unable to Tweet on
her own without the aid of all of her sixteen assistants; many of whom
take home six figure salaries. There are more directors, associate
directors and deputy associate directors on Michelle Obama’s staff
than there were in George Washington’s entire administration.
Presidents have fought wars and made peace, explored and annexed vast
territories and built a nation out of a handful of colonies with fewer
senior staffers than are needed to handle Michelle Obama’s Twitter
account.
Oh the humanity! Will Michelle Obama ever tweet again? And how will
the White House continue to function without at least one
projectionist on duty at the White House 24 hours a day?
No wonder Barack Obama is so upset about this shutdown.
In the end, this shutdown could turn out to be very good for America.
We have a government that is wildly out of control and that
desperately needs to be reigned in.
During the Obama administration, federal debt held by the public has
risen by 90 percent, and overall federal government spending has risen
by a whopping 317 percent since 1990.
So is it really a bad thing that the federal government has been
forced to cut back for a little while?
Our politicians can whine and cry all they want. They won’t be
getting any sympathy from me.
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2 comments:
So the shutdown was ONLY due to NO Budget by October 1st, and NOT due to going past the Deficit Limit?
So the Government can continue to SPEND money and then go past the LIMIT IRREGARDLESS of what laws are in place?
Apparently there is still plenty to keep the chem-trail planes in the air. However, border patrol is being asked to stand down (while they are making backdoor deals to approve amnesty just in time to usher in more democrats for 2014 elections.)
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