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Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

A shutdown for the 99 Percent, Concierge Government for the 1 Percent

Author:     Eoin Higgins
Source:     The Intercept
Publication Date:     January 14 2019, 1:23 p.m.
 Link: A shutdown for the 99 Percent, Concierge Government for the 1 Percent
Stephan:   I am amazed that this shut down has not brought at least hundreds of thousands of Americans into the streets, filling the Mall in D.C., for instance, and creating enough citizen noise to force the Republican Senate to act. If the Congress was a functioning body the Democratically-controlled House would pass a bill to fund the government, send it to the Senate which would also pass it, send it to the president, who would veto it, and send it back, and 67 senators would vote to override the veto -- 49 Democrats and 18 Republicans. And bingo the government would reopen. That is the way the Founders designed our system of government to work. But the Republican cult has blocked that from happening because they don't give a rat's ass for ordinary Americans. You're going to lose your house, you say? You can't afford the medications for your child's illness? Well, boo hoo, Mitch McConnell answers. I don't know how this could be made any clearer.

Cheryl Monroe, right, a Food and Drug Administration employee, and Bertrice Sanders, a Social Security Administration employee, rally to call for an end to the partial government shutdown in Detroit on Jan. 10, 2019.
Credit: Paul Sancya/AP

The Government Shutdown is into its fourth week with no end in sight. President Donald Trump started the crisis on December 22 by refusing to sign a funding bill unless it contained money for his southern border wall.

A wide range of interests across the economic spectrum are jeopardized. But not all interests are suffering equally: Wealthier and more powerful interest groups have been granted preference by the government.

Over Christmas, the shutdown threatened to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, from issuing flood insurance certificates. According to federal law, FEMA must provide flood insurance certifications before banks may issue federally backed mortgages to prospective homeowners living in federally designated floodplains — even in areas that FEMA has determined should not be built on due to high risk of flooding. The National Flood Insurance Program […]

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1 Comment

  1. Pam on Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 4:25 pm

    Trump is either an idiot or a sly fox. What he has done is effectively opened the borders for anyone to freely enter the US. Is this Agent Trumps plan with Putin? Is the wall just a huge red herring? Time will tell what is really happening.But Trump is totally irrational or well played.