How to cut the budget
I’m with Tam. When they shut down ‘non-essential services’ and no one notices, cut all of those.
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April 7th, 2011 at 9:01 am
The problem here is that would still only amount to about 5% of the budget… They are making all this noise and pounding their fist on the table and its all just pennies. We will never get out of debt with this approach.
April 7th, 2011 at 9:02 am
You realize that “non-essential” services are largely what keeps everything from crashing down next year instead of next week right?
April 7th, 2011 at 9:04 am
Yeah, because if the Park Service goes away, there’ll be anarchy!
April 7th, 2011 at 9:22 am
Who decides what non essential services cutbacks or eliminations should cost Americans their jobs?
April 7th, 2011 at 9:24 am
I hate to explain it to either Obama or Boehner, but the word “jobs” appears exactly zero times in the Constitution.
April 7th, 2011 at 9:34 am
Well as long as the cutbacks affect someone else, then.
April 7th, 2011 at 9:46 am
Hey Hey Hey, now! “Non-essential services” includes the NFA branch of BATFU and I’ve got a can pending. I say cut off the SS checks first and let grandma stop living off my paycheck. It’s the old folks’ generation that got us into this mess, let them feel the burn of setting up a ponzi scheme and then screwing the next five generations.
North, an idiot like you has always believed that was an okay philosophy; you just thought that the .gov should be robbing some people to pay others (as long as it affects someone else, right?). Dick.
April 7th, 2011 at 10:16 am
You realize “non-essential services” includes things like the entire federal court system?
On a more personal note, I filed my income tax return on 3/2 and am still waiting for my refund, which would be delayed even further by a shutdown. The IRS apparently forgot it had to start accepting the repayments of the 2008 FTHBC this year and is up to two months late in processing the returns for the hundreds of thousands of tax payers who did so.
April 7th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Also included in non-essential services is the “e-Verify” employment check, which means that in some states, no one is allowed to get a new jobs as long as the shutdown continues.
April 7th, 2011 at 10:23 am
“North, an idiot like you has always believed that was an okay philosophy; you just thought that the .gov should be robbing some people to pay others (as long as it affects someone else, right?). Dick.”
Huh. I like when people tell me what I believe like they know. Or even remotely understand. Thanks for shining your brilliance on all of us. Try “reading comprehension” next time.
April 7th, 2011 at 10:30 am
Non-essential services also includes most military R&D and analysis. I’d wager it’s true federal wide so the EPA research into cleaning up toxic pollutants (which I rather like) stops too. Ditto federal procurement and logistical systems. Which means once stuff starts breaking during the shutdown it can’t be easily replaced or, in some cases, even fixed. It’s like you’ve cut the “essential” people’s supply lines. Sooner or later everything grinds to a halt.
Oh and if you are essential personnel, you still don’t get paid, you just have to keep coming to work with the promise that Uncle Sam will pay you in the future.
April 7th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Then lets add this corollary.
Anything that depends upon approval granted by any non-essential government employee(s) during a shut down are automatically granted.
(Or, cribbing from P.J. O’Rourke, if it is the government who broke your legs, you don’t have to wait for government issued crutches during a shut down.)
April 7th, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Well, we can think about it and do it intelligently now, or when the whole thing collapses not only will the nonessential services be cut, but everything will be. Wanna see what happens then? Just pretend everything’s peachy keen, and you’ll find out.
April 7th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
“do it intelligently now” Who will be doing that? The government?
April 7th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
I’m a defense contractor building training equipment to support troops. I’m non-essential.
April 7th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
People keep listing the various and sundry far-reaching ways in which a government shut-down will affect American people across the board, as if those reasons are bad things.
They are not.
The more people notice how deeply entwined the government is in their daily affairs, perhaps the more interested they will be in cutting off those tentacles, since the vast majority of those services would putter right along otherwise, government or not.