Is The Government Shutdown Affecting You Directly?

[Thor]

Pueblo sin Fronteras

Should be declared a criminal enterprise and their operatives should either not be allowed back or arrested on crossing the border.

 

[BigRed]

Well, yeah.... it's finally effecting me..... Going to be roasting a venison backstrap tonight to celebrate the "shutdown" and weakened government.

 

[T.Lex]

Turns out, if SBA-backed loans weren't past a certain point in the process before the shutdown, then they are on hold.

That is, the banks that issue the loans, even though they may be SBA-compliant, won't close them because SBA is shuttered.

That's a problem for some small business-owners.

 

[Denny347]

Well, they just shut down Newark Airport for lack of air traffic controllers. My father-in-law just passed and trying to get all the NJ family in town for the memorial sunday is proving difficult...ugh. F*** politicians...

 

[BigRed]

Well, they just shut down Newark Airport for lack of air traffic controllers. My father-in-law just passed and trying to get all the NJ family in town for the memorial sunday is proving difficult...ugh. F*** politicians...

Sounds like a good time to privatize air traffic controllers.


PS My sincere condolences on your family's loss.

 

[JettaKnight]

Well, they just shut down Newark Airport for lack of air traffic controllers. My father-in-law just passed and trying to get all the NJ family in town for the memorial sunday is proving difficult...ugh. F*** politicians...

**** just got real.

Sounds like a good time to privatize air traffic controllers.

I believe there are pockets of them at much smaller facilities, and it may be worth a discussion.

But no productive discussion comes when a gun is pointed at heads.

 

[BigRed]

**** just got real.


I believe there are pockets of them at much smaller facilities, and it may be worth a discussion.

But no productive discussion comes when a gun is pointed at heads.

Remember when Reagan **** canned them?

 

[JettaKnight]

Remember when Reagan **** canned them?

Yes, I very much do - it directly affected me.

My father was one that thought the union was wrong and left (the union, not the FAA). We were transferred to Kalamazoo to fill in their shortage.



What's your point? ATC's weren't privatized then, and there's a still a union.

 

[BigRed]

Little is worse than a public employee union.

 

[d.kaufman]

Believe Trump will be reopening the gov temporarily this afternoon. Thats the reports im seeing as of now

 

[JettaKnight]

Little is worse than a public employee union.

I don't fully agree.

If you work for GM, you can always go work for Ford, or Honda, or Subaru... But if you're an ATC for the FAA, what options do you have when it comes to staying within your field?


I still don't see how that's relevant to the situation at hand.

 

[BigRed]

Believe Trump will be reopening the gov temporarily this afternoon. Thats the reports im seeing as of now

BOOOOOO

 

[BigRed]

I still don't see how that's relevant to the situation at hand.

It isn't..... just reminiscing.

 

[JettaKnight]

It isn't..... just reminiscing.

Yeah.

I guess I can too - Kalamazoo had a lot more snow which made a certain six year old and his sister very happy. I'm not sure my parents share my fond memories for that period of life.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Shutdown's over.

President got little to nothing out of it, except some negative PR.

 

[Ricnzak]

Shutdown's over.

President got little to nothing out of it, except some negative PR.

"Crumbled like oreo cookie"

 

[BigRed]

Shutdown's over.

President got little to nothing out of it, except some negative PR.

Idiot.

 

[jedi]

3 weeks reopen only.

 

[JettaKnight]

Shutdown's over.

President got little to nothing out of it, except some negative PR.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/25/6884...dresses-shutdown-from-white-house-rose-garden

 

[JettaKnight]

Idiot.

I'm pretty sure we'll be told it's some sort of 4-D chess move on his part.