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Military Pay Delay, but Congress gets Paid...in a Shutdown

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Our goal is to write a $5 check to the feds every year, and we usually get pretty close. (Last year's refund was for $17) The only reason I'm paying attention to the IRS in this is because we got to claim a fair amount of energy tax credit for the remodel, and the $200 we're going to get back counts as 'real money' to us.
 
BM- that makes sense. I was talking about ppl who count on it every year.
 
It's interesting that this is all the Democrats fault for not seizing the power they had and passing a budget, but rather waiting to work with the folks that wanted so desperately to gut it. It really was a lose lose situation for the Democrats, but I think people will remember that they extended an olive branch of working together.

I don't understand why military pay stops, my understanding was that congress continues getting their pay because they (try to hole in laughs) are essential government employees under the constitution. Did they forget about the defend and protect part?
 
SWGB said:
It's interesting that this is all the Democrats fault for not seizing the power they had and passing a budget, but rather waiting to work with the folks that wanted so desperately to gut it. It really was a lose lose situation for the Democrats, but I think people will remember that they extended an olive branch of working together.

I don't understand why military pay stops, my understanding was that congress continues getting their pay because they (try to hole in laughs) are essential government employees under the constitution. Did they forget about the defend and protect part?
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Politicians will always take care of politicians.

I hope people will remember who tried to cut spending and restore sanity to Washington and who played divisive partisan politics. And if the don't think the Democrats have done just that, listen to chuck Shummer and Nancy Pelosi.
 
idlewind said:
Obama threatens to veto GOP budget extension plan - Yahoo! News

Obama has decided it is all or nothing.
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Boehner's move appeared aimed at shifting political blame if a shutdown occurs, but the announcement of Thursday's vote angered Democrats who felt talks were progressing.

It's also about the last piece of leverage Boehner had, using the Pentagon budget to put political pressure on Democrats and to seek to blame them for a shutdown. But after a shutdown, Boehner's options appear to become more limited.

"I have yet to talk to anybody, member or staff, who's been able to explain to me how Boehner's leverage increases during a shutdown," said GOP lobbyist Jack Howard, who worked for House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., during the last shutdowns in 1995-96
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So has Boner.
 
House Passes One-Week Government Funding Stopgap

The House passed, 247-181, a one-week stopgap spending bill (HR 1363), that would fund government operations through April 15. The bill would make $12 billion in spending cuts and fund the Defense Department through Sept. 30, 2011. Current federal spending authority expires April 8. Senate Democrats say they will not take up the measure in its current form.
 
The GOP's decison to wage their divisive culture wars behind a facade of fiscal responsibility while wapped in an American flag and a Teabag hat, has failed, as we knew it would.

...Wake up Boner, Gov. Scott Walker, and Gov. Rick "What's-a-Train?" Scott...your days are now numbered.
 
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