President Reagan presided over eight short, partial shutdowns in order to gain needed reductions in spending. Do you agree that the threat of a partial government shutdown by House conservative Republicans will facilitate achieving reductions in the current runaway spending?
Dear members of Congress:
Over two-thirds of the federal government should be shut down permanently. It is not surprising that in the measly 140 days/year that members of the House of Representatives work, that you can’t come up with a budget! What do you expect with most of you being lawyers instead of actual business people. Each year you default to a CR—not Continuing Resolution, but “Cowardly Retreat.”
Hello! We are is over $3 trillion in debt!!! Stop the reckless spending! Stop supporting corrupt nations! Close the border! It’s our tax dollars that you are using inappropriately to ruin this nation. Do your job for us, not for your own personal gains.
Sincerely,
We the People
The Federal government is a bloated, largely self-serving body of out-of-touch opportunists who care little about the Country but only about their own self-interests. They have largely ceded power to an unelected body of administrators who have no connection to the Republic as originally laid out. We need term limits on elected officials and limits on staff, Alphabet Soup titled departments and their authority.
Shut it down, we’ll (citizens) will tell you when we’re ready for it to re-open (after we fire 50% of the government employees). Oh, and no government employees will get paid during this time. The children in Washington D.C. need an extended time out.
I am so sick of the runaway spending. There is not going to be much of a world left for our children and grandchildren. Congress is totally irresponsible on both sides. We need to balance our budget. If I spent money like our government, I’d be in jail for all my debt. Quit paying Congress and make them earn their salaries. If they don’t balance, the budget, they don’t get paid. And don’t spend all of our money sending it to foreign countries. Take care of our country first, we are not responsible for the behavior of other countries, but we are certainly responsible for our country and no one seems to realize that anymore.
I work for the Fed Govt – shut it down! and don’t negotiate with the terrorist Democrats.
They’re going to blame Republicans no matter what…
Every politician in Washington, needs to be fired, clean house, start over … with a shutdown many folks will be w/o a paycheck …. but no not the politicians, they still get paid! Cut off their lively hood, might improve things in Washington. Bureaucratic BS!
I hope they do shutdown. None of them care about destroying the private sector (Especially the Hippocrats)
” Yes, to make a strong point that a constitutional fiscal responsibility amendment to create a “constitutional spending box” is needed to stop runaway spending and reduce the national debt.”
This is needed but neither side is willing. A few republicans are standing up which is great to see, Unfortunately they have as much of a chance at being successful as an ant pushing a boulder uphill.
Government shutdown is nothing more than a scare tactic employed by the left. If 17% of federal employees are nonessential, then why do they have government jobs to begin with? I think we should terminate 17% of government employees every time we have a “shutdown.”
Need to have border security in agreement.
Our problem stems from Demos being willing to force an issue and Repubs not having the intestinal fortitude to do so. Politics isn’t about wanting to be nice. It’s about being responsible for the constitutional and genuine good of the ones being served. We are under a debt load that threatens the very fabric of our society. We must get on a road to financial responsibility and recovery. We’ve saddled our children and grandchildren with a burden too heavy to carry.
33 Trillion in debt with that figure rising exponentially! God help us!
No, both party’s are out of control. It’s beyond time to clean house & senate and have term limits. Both are probably a pipe dream so at least a new administration is needed.
Shut it down! We need reductions, not more spending. Quit giving money to Ukraine…
Here us my plan:
Cut actual budgets for all federal agencies by 50%, except military and border patrol.
I didn’t work and pay taxes my whole life to support corrupt foreign nations so, all foreign aid must stop
our border must be 100% closed, everyone who entered the country illegally for any reason must be deported, no money spent on illegals except for deportation costs.
Eliminate 50% of federal agencies immediately and force Congress to reauthorize those remaining by an 80% vote every 5 years.
No congressional pensions, they can do 401(k)s like the rest of us and limit them to 2 terms in office, same as the president and that needs to include all members of their staff.
No legal immigration for 10 years and no more H1B or other workers who are imported to take our jobs.
Welfare, 5 years max and unemployment back to what it was before the COVID hoax.
The government needs to be shut down and each and every agency reassessed. There has NOT been a real budget presented to the people, debated on the floor and appropriations determined since Obama
Nancy Pelosi created the “art” of driving everything to a fiscal cliff, screaming “shut down” oh, those poor unemployed government workers” etc., to push her omnibus bills that were written by lobbyists where she and others (including Republicans) received major money from the people who wrote the bills. That is why the bills had to be passed before Congress could know what was in them. Remember that?
A return to regular order, a single subject budget item, debated and publicly aired and then determined whether it is worthy to have money appropriated for it is the only sane way to regain control of the government. This is how I run my household. Isn’t it how you run yours? Examine the item and determine whether you have the money to spend, or the need is great enough that something else can be put on hold?
You all the wrong answers.
1) If there is overspending, then the first cuts should be the PAY OF THOSE THAT ENDORSE the overspending. Until that starts happening our “representatives” really don’t give a rat’s ass.
2) I thought that the Constitution already had rules in place to limit overspending, that are just ignored, but I have not studied this aspect.
3) Term limits would help because there would be much less financial reasons to listen and cater to lobbyists.
4) A constitutional amendment that lists the results of what should happen if there is a deficit including exactly whose pay is cut, start witht he representatives, then fire the bureaucrats who make way to many rules (not laws).that hamper the country.
I will likely never see a balanced federal budget in my lifetime, and perhaps the best thing to happen would be for the government to declare bankruptcy and NEVER help states who go bankrupt due to bad policies and laws.
We are led by a two party system more interested in the party than the system.
absolute correct…#1 prerequisite should be that the candidate ran/runs a successful business. Lawyers should be the assistants, not the politician!
Nothing but wasteful spending and posturing in our government. We the people are responsible for letting some of this happen. Our votes count, and we should guard them carefully, research who you are voting for, and certainly pray you make the right choice. America should be on its knees asking for forgiveness for the debauchery happening on our soil. Shame on the politicians who vote with one eye closed.
We are not in the times of Reagan any longer. Neither party has any real interest in cutting spending or reducing the National Debt. At this point with the Media and Celebrities and Big Tech behind the Democrats the Republican will have to cave in. The publicity blitz on blaming Republicans for a shutdown will be too much for them to bear
Only shut down it if they have the courage to see it through to the end and not cave when the media makes a show of the poor, poor government workers who are being hurt, as though the rest of us aren’t hurt EVERY day by government overreach and spending! Otherwise, they make ALL conservatives look weak and like fools once again. Having said that, BOTH parties are at fault for spending, because by not fighting spending, Republicans are complicit. add term limits and I become a yes vote.
Does anyone here really think the Ruling Class gives a Sh*t what we think ….. Dry their chatter out and spread it around your lawn, next year your grass will be much greener.
While I’m here, I have a new BumperSnicker …. ‘ Honk if you love Diane Feinstein’s version of Term Limits as much as I do ‘
Both sides have created this deficit, but it is way past time for the deliberate devaluation of the dollar be reversed! The Democrats won’t do it and McCarthy is trying to just keep government spending on autopilot. If he won’t do the work we elected them to do, then I hope they will remove him as Speaker and put someone in place who will at least start us down the path of fiscal responsibility.
As to the shut down, they didn’t utter a word when the private sector was shut down for a year, so I don’t see any problem with the government being shut down now..
I fully support the Convention of States effort in placing three amendments in the Constitution 1. Term Limits. 2. Judicial Reform. 3. Balanced Budget. It will require 34 states to convene the Convention and 38 states to ratify the proposed amendments.
All of this government shutdown talk is greatly exaggerated and scare tactics. The truth is the bloated federal government needs to be downsized in a big way, starting with the elimination of the departments of education, energy, homeland security just to name a few. These departments serve no purpose and recently have just become politically motivated branches of government. Shut it down and clean house but good luck with that. I’d say vote them out but we can’t trust elections anymore either!
The 7 million mostly military age men illegally in our country represent a clear and present danger, which is why they are being brought in by the Democrats and Biden. They owe no allegiance to the US, but are on the Democrat dole and available to join antifa and blm as additional storm troopers against Republicans, conservatives, and independents who do not follow dictates of the left/Marxists now lording over us. Every illegal must be expelled and returned to where they came.
The longer they shut down, the better for Americans. Their spending and corruption is out of control. How do all these people become millionaires when they’re supposed to be public servants!?! We all know, we can’t keep spending more than we have coming in or our households will sink!
There needs to be a shutdown, but they need to appropriate funds to continue paying military members, border patrol and keep the parks open. Pay for all members of Congress needs to halt as these so-called representatives of the people clearly don’t care about those that serve this nation, they only care about the money in their pocket.
The insane, spend-crazy democrats need to be sent a strong message. Shut it down!
This spending has got to stop! I am all in for a shutdown if it closes our border, stops the NIH, CIA, FBI, DOJ, DOD…. and the rest of the alphabet agencies from promoting their radical agendas against the American people!
Most folks can’t even begin to understand the gravity of the precarious financial position this country is in. $33TRILLION in debt is NOT sustainable. Drastic cuts need to be made. I suspect most members of AMAC have grandchildren and they will be suffering from this crushing debt unless the plug is pulled on irresponsible spending. Our debt has been downgraded and, in fact, a good chunk of the debt is owed BY Americans because of bond purchases made (interest rates on those are attractive, but if the fiscal house collapses, you won’t even get your principal back, let alone interest). We need to be DEMANDING that our legislators defund every single unconstitutional department (that would be all but the Dept. of Defense), end foreign aid (we’re paying for Ukraine’s businesses to keep people employed, for water treatment, etc. while Americans suffer…think East Palestine), and stop allowing invaders, who drain resources, into our nation.
No matter how much good a partial shutdown could be, we all know the “drive by” news media will portray it as “Evil Republicans Hurting Americans.” The current administration will do everything in their power to make sure any kind of shutdown causes maximum pain to as many people as they can.
Had my answer before I saw the choices, and it was not among them: Not a matter of “agree” but “believe”–I believe the threat is a show, as always, and serves no purpose than to add to our frustration when eventually the budget is passed and continues to add huge expenditure plans.
This shutdown will not curb spending anymore than any other shutdown has curbed spending.
Neither side has the stomach to cut the big drivers of spending such as Medicare and Medicaid. Until some of those healthcare costs are shifted back to the consumer, our national debt will continue to rise.
It’s time to do their job! The House has the power of the purse. Run it like a responsible household would! If you don’t have the money, then you can’t spend it! We don’t get to print money when we need it, neither should our government!
The problem is not with politicians or political. The problem rests with the American people who have elected, leftist, elitist, postmodern, “government-can-make-life-better” fools who have embraced the lies of administrative state in the form of massive spending on climate change (data manipulation and lies about petroleum), govt. healthcare (rationing of increasing poor quality), the destruction of the traditional family (LGBTQ and cancel culture lies and other anti-family social services), energy (forced renewables and electrification), education (propagandized children by the state). The administrative state needs to be dismantled.
We are nearing the end of all we know as a nation. The corrupt (all) politicians, most of the media, the global oligarcy are all controlled by the same small group of people. The people we see in the television propaganda streams are merely puppets. There is at least one recent book written in the last few years that lays out their plans in great detail that uses their own words and direct quotes. For example, to control the people, we must control the media where they get their information. This plan was begun in the early 1900s. For me, no more dems verses repubs or conservatives vs. progressives. They all follow the same play book. Just like all the major news anchors read basically the same script. When the election was stolen from Donald Trump and the so-called conservatives did nothing to stop this, I saw the end was here. Multiple documentaries by independent groups showed just how it was done. The propaganda lame stream media started parroting the mantra that it was a fair and free election. Yeah, right. And the occupant of the White House with all his mental problems carries the nuclear suitcase and has the keys. And NO ONE in the media seems to care. Many people see thru this scam.
Another terrible poll from AMAC; no options are really correct. The current situation reminds me of an old revolutionary slogan that read “No taxation without representation”. Except in this day and age, it should be altered somewhat to No spending without representation; which means the spending should reflect the will of the people. That would mean for example we the majority of the people want the situation at the border fixed, we want our voting system fixed to reflect real accuracy, and we want our two-tiered justice system fixed and unweaponized (this one goes much deeper/people responsible for undermining the government need to pay the price), we want the needs of our country prioritized over those needs of foreign countries (stop the wars NOW), our media needs to stop with all the untruths, no more propaganda, the lobby system needs to be completely fixed!! The Constitution needs strengthened and not chipped away at! This is just a short list of what our spending should reflect. NO MORE OMNIBUS SPENDING BILLS! Our government right now is far too big and bloated. Shut it down until we can get a handle on the spending achieving objectives!
Nothing is going to change the spending curve which is escalating. It has been well over 40 years since Ronnie and look what has happened. These clowns in congress have no desire to change their ways. Repubs are as bad as dems. This is all theater with the intention of showing the country that these clowns are doing something when in fact the opposite is true.
Nothing will change until the Biden dems and Rinos are replaced by America loving patriots
I would have voted for the first one too because the fraudulent democrats in power now seem to think they can spend money and give it away to Ukraine and other countries. They don’t even help the people of our own country who have had disasters and they allow the southern border to be open thereby letting illegal immigrants in who are being supported by our tax payer dollars and getting all sorts of free things we the legal citizens can’t afford for ourselves. Spending needs to be stopped on other nations. Our national debt needs to be brought down. My daughter who had to take an early retirement because of health problems would only get $25 a month for food stamps if I didn’t feed her. What the heck! That’s how it goes with true citizens. I’m sure she’s not the only one.
Every year, it is the same thing !!!! so sick of it !! The people we sent to DC to REPRESENT us and WORK for us have mismanaged OUR money and don’t want any consequences. We basically are BANKRUPT !!! They are BORROWING money from the chinese and it is apparent the 33 trillion DEBT they put us in will NEVER be repaid and it seems nothing can be done !!! They continue their wild/irresponsible spending….The hand of GOD will come down on these wicked people soon !!!
Either they get this runaway spending under control or we WILL have a true economic shutdown and will destroy this Republic for which it stands one Nation under God almighty!! If it’s not possibly too late,I pray not!!
I voted yes, i’m trying to remain optimistic in the efforts of the few who seem to care enough about our spending to try to force congress to make some needed changes. Reality shows that our congress is not up to the task and voting to approve CR’s has become their predictable norm. McCarthy is a liar and unworthy of being speaker.
Critical services never shut down. Leverage is limited. If congress people didn’t get paid, it would be over quicker and with skin in the game. Instead, they pick on the “non-essential” government employees who have little to do with the mess we are in. The leftist want to ruin the economy of this country so we can be part of the Marxist “New World” order where the likes of the Bidens have already bought their seats at the table from China and others. Moderate Democrats are powerless against the leftists since it is now a entity and not a party anymore. The GOP are a bunch of whiners – but are scared to do anything. Even when they were in the majority under Trump, they did nothing or support the RINO movement like Nit-Wit-Mitt. Both are to blame and the American people better use their voting powers or we will also fiddle while Rome burns.
All the shutdowns have recently accomplished is to give federal employees a free paid vacation.
SHUT IT ALL DOWN!!
I voted NO simply because McCarthy is already selling out the House Republicans with his constant push to just accept another CR which just perpetuates the current runaway spending. We badly need a massive reduction in federal spending, but I fear outside of a very small group of true fiscal conservatives, there is no real will to do it.
By the way, I worked in the federal government for a time and experienced a government shutdown firsthand. The fear mongering coming from both the Democrats and the MSM about the “devastating effects” to either the federal government or national economy is pure BS.
I propose shutting-down all but essential functions, suspending all pay for Congressional members, stopping dispensation of taxpayer monies(esp. to support Illegals), and halting aid to Ukraine, until:
1) the Wall is built and policy changed to 100% stop the illegal invasion
2) a balanced budget is adopted
3) a plan is enacted to Finally reduce our debt and add no more
Uniparty. DC. Rich men north of Richmond don’t care.