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Post by OttselHero on Jan 7, 2019 12:36:20 GMT -5
So...how are you enjoying the US government shutdown? Too soon? Thankfully it doesn't affect me too much, though it saddens me to hear of all of the government employees who aren't getting paid and unsure when they'll see their next paycheck. I don't think I could ever be tempted to work in government for that reason alone. Shutdowns seem to happen more often than they should nowadays. |
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Post by Tross on Jan 7, 2019 20:30:48 GMT -5
So...how are you enjoying the US government shutdown? Too soon? Thankfully it doesn't affect me too much, though it saddens me to hear of all of the government employees who aren't getting paid and unsure when they'll see their next paycheck. I don't think I could ever be tempted to work in government for that reason alone. Shutdowns seem to happen more often than they should nowadays. Hmmm...I wonder why that is. *Looks at orange elephant in the room.* Nope, I’ve got nothing. That it has been over 40 years since the US government has been shut down three times in a year must just be a coincidence. Does the US Government lack failsafes that other government systems have had for a long time? A certain someone would have stumbled across a vote of non-confidence at least a few times over if he was a Canadian Prime Minister. We don’t often shut down the government here. I do feel bad for the US government workers affected by this. A wall sounds like a great idea, provided humans don’t invent air travel...oh wait. Yeah, I fail to see how that’s worth holding the livelihoods of 800,000 people hostage. |
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Post by OttselHero on Jan 15, 2019 10:50:56 GMT -5
Thankfully it doesn't affect me too much, though it saddens me to hear of all of the government employees who aren't getting paid and unsure when they'll see their next paycheck. I don't think I could ever be tempted to work in government for that reason alone. Shutdowns seem to happen more often than they should nowadays. Hmmm...I wonder why that is. *Looks at orange elephant in the room.* Nope, I’ve got nothing. That it has been over 40 years since the US government has been shut down three times in a year must just be a coincidence. Does the US Government lack failsafes that other government systems have had for a long time? A certain someone would have stumbled across a vote of non-confidence at least a few times over if he was a Canadian Prime Minister. We don’t often shut down the government here. I do feel bad for the US government workers affected by this. A wall sounds like a great idea, provided humans don’t invent air travel...oh wait. Yeah, I fail to see how that’s worth holding the livelihoods of 800,000 people hostage. And what makes it more shocking is that only 55% of those polled blame the president. And this is despite the existing video where Trump says, "I will happily shut down the government" before it happened. The wall is so completely pointless; a sample of it has already been made, and someone managed to cut through it with a hand saw. -facepalm- Studies also show that illegal immigration occurs far more commonly through other means, such as overstayed work visas. Heck, they just found a drug-smuggling tunnel underneath the southern Arizona border! I feel like the most effective means of curbing illegal immigration would be to increase border patrol, especially since the president even acknowledged their effectiveness in a tweet after the migrant caravan arrived. |
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Post by Tross on Jan 17, 2019 3:20:57 GMT -5
Hmmm...I wonder why that is. *Looks at orange elephant in the room.* Nope, I’ve got nothing. That it has been over 40 years since the US government has been shut down three times in a year must just be a coincidence. Does the US Government lack failsafes that other government systems have had for a long time? A certain someone would have stumbled across a vote of non-confidence at least a few times over if he was a Canadian Prime Minister. We don’t often shut down the government here. I do feel bad for the US government workers affected by this. A wall sounds like a great idea, provided humans don’t invent air travel...oh wait. Yeah, I fail to see how that’s worth holding the livelihoods of 800,000 people hostage. And what makes it more shocking is that only 55% of those polled blame the president. And this is despite the existing video where Trump says, "I will happily shut down the government" before it happened. The wall is so completely pointless; a sample of it has already been made, and someone managed to cut through it with a hand saw. -facepalm- Studies also show that illegal immigration occurs far more commonly through other means, such as overstayed work visas. Heck, they just found a drug-smuggling tunnel underneath the southern Arizona border! I feel like the most effective means of curbing illegal immigration would be to increase border patrol, especially since the president even acknowledged their effectiveness in a tweet after the migrant caravan arrived. Not to mention that as I mentioned previously, the vast majority of entry into the US wouldn't come from people crossing the border, but via air travel. Some may come by boat too. In any case, the US-Mexico border deals with immigration to/from Mexico while airports deal with immigration to and from anywhere in the world. For the record, Mexico has airports too. I think increasing border patrol would be a great idea, and so would augmenting security at airports. Yeah, allowing legal visas to expire would render a wall moot. Critics are calling the wall medieval, and not to be pedantic but...that's an insult to medieval walls, unless there's a plan to have ramparts, crenelations, corbelling and machicolations as well as 24/7 patrols across it. In that scenario that would be overkill and a waste of US taxpayer dollars. As it stands it will likely just be a waste of US taxpayer dollars, plus what's being wasted on this stupid shutdown. |
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