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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs This Really About the Wall? Or Is This an Attack on Fed Workers?
Democrats will never fund the wall. Ever. So what does Trump, the man who would have used the crucifixation as a way to make money (Get your Jesus tears here!) stand to gain from a protracted federal shutdown that he can not possibly win?
Who loses when the government is shutdown? Federal workers. Unionized federal workers. Especially federal workers whose jobs are essential meaning have to go to work each day without getting paid. They do not have the option of getting temp work. They are stuck. If the shut down goes on long enough some will be forced to quit...
And when enough federal jobs are vacant Trump donors can then step in and offer to privatize. We could see the airlines take over air traffic control. Coal fired Plants could get paid to monitor their own pollution. Construction sites would be able to decide for themselves what is safe for their workers. And each time a federal safety agency gets co-opted by the federal industry it is supposed to regulate, we will have a situation very like the fox guarding the hen houseand getting paid by the chickens to do it.
Democrats need to mobilize their own wealthy donors. We need to come up with cash to help our union brothers and sisters weather this Trump manufactured storm.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)this is getting to be. People are far too tolerant of this ass.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)let the bastard melt down to a orange glob of shit! He is on the verge of a break down.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Wanna be autocrats derive their hold over their base by dominance signaling.
Appearing weak is an autocrats kryptonite. Thats why DJT is fighting and its why Dems should force him to say uncle.
This shutdown comes with the added benefit for the GOP that it harms the govt.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)workers should be just fired as non-essential, and that small gov. was good. Now, I surely hope that was a joke. It's hard to tell with this guy, he's so damn demented.
shockey80
(4,379 posts)Their beliefs, their policies have all been proven wrong, they are twisted, delusional and self destructive and they don't care. I used to be a federal worker. It was like working in an insane asylum.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)one party, the GOP.
Iggo
(47,553 posts)"Look what they made me do."
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)center piece for his 2020 Campaign. He ran on Hate in 2016 and it will be the same for 2020.
How soon people forget.