In my three decades I have never seen a liberal party force a shutdown.
Every single time it’s these greedy skeletor fuckbags called Republicans.
File this under “the somewhat hidden costs of brinkmanship” along with the debt ceiling b.s. from a few months back.
OMB and a basically every agency they cover will spend tons of time (and thus money) doing prep work for an event that should never even be a real threat, were Congress able to govern even somewhat effectively. All that prep work happens instead of real mission work, not in addition. Just another waste that we can thank the GOP for.
Best time for the UAW to ramp up the strike, and for anyone else contemplating striking to do so. Push the remaining operating services to the edge and I guarantee the shutdown ends or you get more concessions.
I’d love to see the labor movement parlay this into a general strike.
There needs to be something done to stop this stupid game we keeping get into every year or other year. It should just run on auto-pilot if they can’t come to an agreement, this shouldn’t even be a valid political tactic to not do the fucking job they’re in Washington to do. In a sane world, the people initiating this would lose their seats after trying this once, but here we are…
Or incentivize it. When it goes to auto pilot, budgets increase with CPI automatically.
Or, when on auto pilot, the “entitlements” budget triples or something.
