govt shutdown looms

[jms62]

Nice to see that furloughed workers will get back pay for the time off. If they didnt maybe they would be pissed off enough to vote them all out. Guess we didnt save much money at all.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

Nice to see that furloughed workers will get back pay for the time off. If they didnt maybe they would be pissed off enough to vote them all out. Guess we didnt save much money at all.

yeah, essentially a paid vacation. if we're going to pay them, they should have worked.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

yeah, essentially a paid vacation. if we're going to pay them, they should have worked.

Saw on ABC news tonite that some repuke congressman sent a check to the Treasury dept for 5K, returning his pay for the shutdown period...few others have pledged to do the same...friggin joke...they shouldn't have been paid to start with but they claim they were 'working'.

[Danzig]

the people responsible for this mess should have been the first on the 'do not pay' list.
term limits
has to be a budget
just two of the rules that should be instituted, immediately, for congress.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

the people responsible for this mess should have been the first on the 'do not pay' list.
term limits
has to be a budget
just two of the rules that should be instituted, immediately, for congress.

Jonathan Karl interview with that whacko Cruz on tonites ABC eve news...wasn't his shutdown

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ted...0/17/id/531704

[Danzig]

yeah, it was the dems fault because they wouldn't 'compromise'.

love the 'mule' advice!!

[bigrun]

Sounds like a plan..

Psychology 101 -


If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.


As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water.


After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.


Now, put the cold water away.Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.


Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one.


The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment...... with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the "team".

Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.

Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.


Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.

Why, you ask? Because in their minds...that is the way it has always been!

This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and this is why, from time to time:



ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.