Not just the federal employees but the entire country got Trumped. Look at what’s happening. Really look. Is this the way one makes a deal? Judge for yourself.
This master of deal-making begins basically by demanding capitulation. Agree to his position, or else. Then, instead of playing on a level field, he holds federal employees as hostages. No, it’s not just 800,000 people. Most of those employees have families. If the average family has a spouse and 2.2 kids, let’s put that number at 3,360,000.
I have no idea how many contractors are affected. According to a couple of comments in the media, it likely runs into the millions. Just one contractor can affect hundreds. One that provides low-income housing may evict his tenants because the government is not subsidizing their rents during the shutdown. Then we need to factor in the grocery stores, the gas stations, car dealers and repair shops, beauty and barber shops, everyone connected to real estate transactions, those places collecting tuition, Dollar Tree, churches and charities. There are many more – oh, and McDonald’s.
When you add all of those in, you come up with a number that, at a minimum, negates at least a full quarter’s growth in the economy. With the negative effect Brexit is going to have on the United Kingdom and the European Union (28 countries), that’s a lot of our customers. Get ready for a recession. The shutdown is, for us and all of them, a completely unnecessary negative factor that adds to the damage the clown in the Oval Office constantly does.
Before getting back to the Artless Deal, let’s look a few facts. There are more people crossing our southern border southbound than northbound. That has been the case for more than a decade. People crossing our border with Canada is also a problem. According to the Border Patrol, essentially every part of the border with Mexico where there is a wall, there is also one or more tunnels.
Significantly more illegal immigrants are people crossing the border with Canada and arriving at airports and overstaying their visas than those coming from the South. Also, these people are taking great risks to avoid violence or get a job. They are not here to get noticed by causing trouble. The administration uses the total number of people coming to the southern border and then juices it upward in their claims of illegal immigrants. Everyone of them has a legal right to come to the border and petition for asylum
Back to deal-making.
Real deal makers don’t begin, continue and never end by calling the ones on the other side of the table names. They don’t threaten. Those are the favored tactics of mobsters. Neither deal makers nor mobsters pitch a temper tantrum and run away.
Trump stopped the bipartisan trip by a group of congressmen from using a government plane for a trip to Brussels and Afghanistan. He called it a publicity stunt. Unlike Trump, who uses his trips for publicity, they were doing their duty. They needed to reassure our NATO allies of our steadfast commitment. NATO headquarters is in Brussels. They also, wanted to show up in Afghanistan to let the troops know that their efforts are appreciated and to get firsthand assessments from the diplomatic and military officials. They weren’t taking a pleasure trip and bringing along their spouses. Again, they intended to do their duty.
While Trump used the excuse of the shutdown to deny a congressional party the use of a government plane, the next day Melanie Melania takes a government plane to Mar-a-Lago. That’s another important deal making technique – a slap in the face.
Many of Trump’s “deals’ were refusing to pay for work done and/or threatening to sue the other party. You know that Trump didn’t write that infamous book because the manuscript was not done in crayon. Since he is famous for not reading, it is likely that he has no idea of what methods of deal-making are. He is a huckster, a con man, a grifter, a mobster, a liar, a fraud, a sociopath. He is anything but a deal maker.
Regardless of any tortured explanations excuses, the president does not have the authority to require someone to work for no pay. Pure and simple, that is slavery. That violates the Constitution. Read this: Read the Damn Constitution
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