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As a Democrat libtard, I sincerely hope that this time it's for real - this time the government really DOES shut down. I can't think of a better holiday gift to the American people. I don't' know why they think WE are afraid of the government shutting down, when in fact it's something I hope and pray for every single day!! And yet they never seem to have to the balls to actually let it happen.
Because it's not a gift to about 4 million federal workers who would go without pay in a shutdown:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/government-shutdown-federal-workers-lose-pay-military-rcna116891
It would be horrible for federal workers and for enlisted people who might go without pay. I totally get that. Those people should be entitled to retain their daily earnings while the government goes into shutdown (if it happens).
LOL nice lie but you failed. This is precisely the sort of fiction that neocons salivate over.
also, why do you delight in millions of lives being overturned for cheap political victories? you have an empathy problem there
I know this is new or different from what you want to believe, but what I said it not a lie. I have been praying and hoping for a government shut down that ACTUALLY happens, for over a year or more now. It's something I would love to see and I hope I really get to see it ACTUALLY happen and soon.
Yeah, you love to artificially put millions of people out of work and their children into the street because that will totally fix all the problems, trust you. Class act.
I’m guessing you weren’t alive or old enough to remember when it happened in 1995-6?
While it will hurt the party in charge (R’s in congress), it can also fuck up a bunch of things; Social security, health department, education department, the EPA, FDA and USDA (I’m assuming you eat food here in the US).
It can’t be helpful for federal trials of insurrectionists either.