As of the time of this blithering…I mean blogging, the federal government is on the verge of another government shutdown. Before, the Leftists complained the Republicans weren’t willing to negotiate to prevent the shutdown, but this time…it’s Leftists complaining the Republicans aren’t willing to negotiate to prevent the shutdown.
If only that were an echo, it wouldn’t sound so stupid and hypocritical.
Regardless, the Left has gone all doom and gloom on the prospect of a government shutdown. People will die! Health care will be lost for millions! There might yet another Medea movie! Holy shit on a shingle, Batman! It must be a super-cereal problem for the Left to go all Red Alert like this!
Nope. It’s literally just Tuesday. (Please check local listings for the day of the week in your area.)
Much like a case of the clap, this seems to come around every so often, only a lot more irritating and a lot less fun to get. The federal government runs out of money more than Hunter Biden at an all-you-can-do crack den, so it becomes this ordeal to right the fiscal ship. Only, we never do.
I’ve mentioned this before, but it bears repeating. Our government keeps funding itself through Continuing Resolutions, which are promises we’ll pay our bills this time and never let this happen again. And then it keeps happening. The federal government hasn’t passed an actual budget since 2017, so we’re getting close to a decade of these budgetary tricks that would get the rest of us thrown in jail.
Which is why Arthur Andersen should have gone into politics instead of dealing with Enron.
The thing about government shutdowns is essential functions are still being paid out, so it’s not like we’re not going to fund the military for a few days because our elected officials can’t decide whether to spend a few billion on studies about transexual llama mating habits during a full moon occurring on Tuesdays. It’s only the shit that we decide to spend that gets impacted.
Which brings us to the latest sticking point for the Left. Democrats want to extend tax credits for health insurance and reverse Medicare cuts President Trump supported. And those mean ole Republicans don’t want that.
Funny thing. Leftists tend to hate tax credits and the Right love them.
Regardless, there is some question as to the veracity of the Left’s demands, namely that these nozzleheads think we should pay for health care for illegal immigrants because Murka. (Which I think they believe to be a foreign country that keeps sending us immigrants, but that’s neither here nor there.) And contrary to Leftist squawking points to the contrary, that shit is happening. So, maybe a little scrutiny is in order to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Or, yanno, don’t send in a Continuing Resolution with that shit in there. Just saying.
Apparently that’s a bridge too far for Leftists, so here we are. And I am so good with it.
What the Left fails to understand is people really don’t pay that much attention to government most of the time. Sure, there are times when we do, but the rest of the time we want them to get out of our ways. There are so many laws on the books, people break at least 3 of them every day, and that’s at least 4 too many in my book.
Maybe it’s my small government brain working overtime again, but it’s my belief that the federal government needs a DOGE-style enema. We need to know not only how our money is spent, but get an explanation of why. Given the USAID and NGO scandals from earlier this year, the government needs that enema, like, 10 years ago.
And I don’t mean just looking into Democrat-approved expenditures, either. Let’s go whole hog on eliminating pork! If there’s a line item that is unusual, unnecessary, or at the very least questionable, call it out and make the assholes responsible for it explain themselves. If they can’t, off goes the funding, along with their jobs.
Which brings me to a point I’ve made before, but it bears repeating. Why in the wide world of fuck are we paying non-essential employees? If they’re not needed for the day-to-day operations, they shouldn’t be on the books. Unless you can make one hell of an argument in favor of having a Regional Sub-Assistant Manager in Charge of Fetching Some Bureaucrat Starbucks Every Morning, have that bureaucrat pick it up himself or herself. If they make the big (or even the medium) bucks, they can afford to get their own ‘Bucks.
Of course, there are several thousand federal workers resigning October 1 due to budget cuts. Those are rookie numbers! You know what would really piss off the Orange Man? If more workers up and quit! Really stick it to him! Have a mass walkout that would make the Million Man March look like a Kindergarten class lining up for recess!
Of course, with the caveat being you decline getting your final paychecks and pension. After all, you don’t want to get any money Donald Trump has access to, right?
But I’m afraid that’s not going to happen any time soon, so we’re stuck with watching Democrats and Republicans fight over how to spend more of our money on shit we didn’t ask for and really don’t need. I guess the only thing left to do is pop some popcorn, get a cold drink or 50, and watch.
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