The morning after, now what?

[Ratickle]

This way they won't have to pay extra people to keep people out???? What idiots we elect.


The Obama administration said Thursday it will allow states to use their own money to reopen some national parks that have been closed because of the government shutdown

[Ratickle]

President Barack Obama signed into law on Thursday legislation that was rushed through Congress to provide aid for the families of soldiers killed in the line of duty, assistance that was frozen due to the U.S. government shutdown.


He does this after he said no and public donors started covering the cost. Idiot should be impeached!!


The Department of Defense (DOD), with a half-trillion-dollar budget, has turned to a nonprofit with $48.5 million in revenue to help it pay $100,000 in death benefits to families of military employees who have died since the federal government shutdown.

But the Fisher House Foundation was not alone in its concern for helping the Pentagon. Once the deal was announced on Wednesday, 1,200 people called the Rockville, Md.-based nonprofit and pledged a total of $160,000 on Wednesday to help the organization support those military families.

Thanks to true patriots!

[fund razor]

I had to call Social Security yesterday to request a verification letter.
The gal said I needed to call my local office, she couldn't send out docs.
I asked a few questions about the account - which she answered, and then gave me the number for my local office.
I called my local, and the guy tells me he can't do anything because of the Govt shutdown.
I told him I already have the info, just need a doc. He tells me the gal that gave me the info never should have told me anything...

That's right. They have been instructed to take full advantage of the situation to make things as inconvenient as possible for taxpayers to get the maximum reaction.

NOAA didn't shut down marine forecasts, but they still put a big banner on their website explaining what a HUGE favor they were doing for us by continuing to provide them.

[fund razor]

In Monroe Michigan, across the street from Clamdiggers, there is a recently-made-national-park status minor battlefield site.

It is a field.
It also has a parking lot and a little visitor center the size of a house. (Because I think that it WAS a house.)
They put a rope across the parking lot.

[Buoy]

That's right. They have been instructed to take full advantage of the situation to make things as inconvenient as possible for taxpayers to get the maximum reaction.

When I was talking to the second guy, at one point he used the "word" irregardless - I almost called him on it, and was ready to explain to him that it wasn't a word, but I refrained...

When I was hanging up, I politely said "Thanks. You have been absolutely no help at all".

On a side note, Jody found the document we need here at the house - it was in the cabinet under a handle of Morgan's

[fund razor]

Whew.
Thank God I got that bottle of Maker's Mark out of the way for you.

[Buoy]

Yep, right next to where the Makers was

[Ratickle]

Despite claims that the United States has never defaulted, America has stiffed creditors on at least occasions, most recently in 1979.


WASHINGTON — You hear the same proud claim every time Washington wrestles with the debt limit: The United States has never defaulted. But the record's not that clean. America has stiffed creditors on at least two occasions. Most recently....in 1979. The Treasury Department blamed it on a crush of paperwork partly caused by lawmakers who — this will sound familiar — bickered too long before raising the nation's debt limit.

These lapses, little noted outside financial circles in their day, are nearly forgotten now.

Indeed, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew frequently declares that the United States has always met all of its obligations; a Treasury spokeswoman declined to discuss any possible exceptions. President Barack Obama, reminding Congress of the urgency of raising the debt limit before a Thursday deadline, warned of "the chaos that could result if, for the first time in our history, we don't pay our bills on time."

Historian Don Hickey isn't surprised....... "He doesn't know his history," Hickey said of the president. "It's that simple."

http://news.msn.com/us/the-us-has-ne...bt-not-so-fast

[Bobcat]

[Ratickle]

Even if the Whitehouse did play the game and lose, they'd say Alabama cheated first, then spin-lie about the real score, bribe the referees to say they blew the touchdown calls, have the news say the Tide used ineligible players, appoint the best lying referee to the Supreme Court (then have the Court hear the case they brought against the Tide), and re-write history to where they actually won except for a bad call or two......

[Bobcat]

[Bobcat]

[Ratickle]

The Fool's Gold Rule......

[fund razor]

Rule number 2: Entitlement.

Give him a fish and you will owe him fish for the rest of his life.

[Bobcat]

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Supposed to be a big riot on November 1st.....Food stamps are being cut by $36 ....Sounds like an excuse to loot and riot to me.

[poncho]

http://moneymorning.com/ob-article/s...hp?code=117833

[Buoy]

Supposed to be a big riot on November 1st.....Food stamps are being cut by $36 ....Sounds like an excuse to loot and riot to me.

I've seen reports that EBT cards are being sold on Craigslist for cash.
What a great system...

[poncho]

I've seen reports that EBT cards are being sold on Craigslist for cash.
What a great system...

I saw article about that as well. While at the cottage in the states a Women approached me and offered me $150 in groceries for $50 cash. Didn't take her up on her offer. Told the cashier and that's how I learned about EBT cards. Here we just give them checks. Single person gets $640 per month. Min wage is $10.25 per hour. To get welfare you have to prove you've looked for work for 5weeks before they'll give the first check. While you welfare you must look for work and prove it. Its pretty much temporary here.