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Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.
The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight. "This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @09:58AM (10 children)
Look up US Code Title 22 Chapter 38 Section 2656f(d) and tell me how far (apart from actual violence) this shutdown is from an act of terrorism.
Then do the same for 18 USC Par. 2331.
Bonus points if you manage to also do it for any or all of the affected state laws.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @10:40AM (8 children)
Definitely grounds for impeachment, or a general strike.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 07 2019, @12:15PM (3 children)
But, how do we impeach all of congress?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by epitaxial on Monday January 07 2019, @02:17PM (2 children)
Its called voting. Never vote for the incumbent.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Monday January 07 2019, @04:38PM
The problem is that voting for the only other party likely to win is only a small improvement. This feature is inherent in the "plurality wins" electoral system. Other systems have their own problems, but plurality wins was only chosen because the monarchists had no chance of winning, and the alternatives weren't clear. That said, the original constitution left most power to the states, who each had their own constitution. Most power definitely included the right to levy taxes, and pay for a standing army. So as originally designed the flaw was less important.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:03PM
That doesn't help. The "problem" is that there is a big country with diverse interests. People typically like their local representative because their local representative is like them. They just don't like "the other guy."
For example, imagine there is a Congressman Smith in California who is for gun confiscations, for no-questions-asked abortions, and wants a more strict EPA. Further, imagine there is a Congressman Jones in Texas who is for no-questions-asked gun purchases, wants to ban abortions, and wants to defund the EPA.
The people in California love Smith, the people in Texas love Jones, but both of them hate Congress as a whole because they end up in a weird hybrid state which nobody likes.
I fail to see how voting against the incumbent helps that fundamental situation.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @06:41PM (3 children)
Mobilize the working class against the US government shutdown [wsws.org]:
Links are mine.
Additionally, this struggle is an international struggle; globalist capitalism can only be overcome on an international basis. See also Growing “yellow vest” protests defy French police repression [wsws.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @09:03PM (2 children)
The working class should want the US government to be "shut down". The only people getting tax refunds are those who overpayed their taxes, that is a personal choice that has nothing to do with being "working class".
And the united states is in like 30 states of emergency (most of them for many years), with about half of them allowing the president extra powers over the military. This has nothing to do with trump.
That entire post is wrong in every way.
If you want to help the working class, fight for lower housing/food/fuel prices (ie, price deflation) to match with wages. They have been screwed over because wages have lagged price inflation for a long time, but it was especially extreme recently due to the 2008-2016 ZIRP policy of the federal reserve. That policy was used to prop up the stock market at the expense of the working class.
In short, your reasons are wrong, your understanding of the context is wrong, and your solution is wrong. I couldn't come up with a better way to screw over the working class than what is suggested there. It reminds me of how the early rise of socialism/communism was supported by the wealthy industrialists/bankers, because they knew centralizing power just made it easier for them to control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @01:02AM (1 child)
I feel I should at least attempt a response.
Yep. Trump is absolutely not the cause of all this. That cannot be repeated enough, so go on repeating it. He's just the PT Barnum character we get to see on the lamestream propaganda leading the next two years' hit reality TV show, The Incumbent.
wswswswsws came to the same conclusion.
Your ideas about deflation fail to take into consideration the effect deflation would have on debt at all layers of society from the top to the bottom. But deflation would be a helluva way to get the revolution started.
Everybody I know is aware of this. Did you just find this out or something?
In what way does the ICFI calling for independent rank-and-file committees in opposition to the unions, which are controlled by the wealthy industrialists/bankers, remind you of this?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @02:41AM
So then why is it presented as a "working class" problem? Paraphrasing "The government shutdown is bad (for us) because people wont get their tax refunds" was the first thing quoted.
It doesn't, that one sounds great. It would probably also work out better while the government is "shut down".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @08:01PM
Hilarious. Later this year: Unless you vote to increase the debt limit, you are a treasonous terrorist. And the real reason behind all this (enriching the rich and powerful) finally comes out.