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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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Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by TheFool on Monday January 07 2019, @04:10PM (2 children)
I am not a Republican, but yes, this seems to be the closest to what I want.
The federal budget should be as close to $0 as possible. If we set it exactly to $0 and negotiate up, especially with congress being as dysfunctional as it is right now, we might find out what we really need in a federal government.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @06:31PM
If you think Congress is dysfuntional now you should try working for them.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday January 07 2019, @10:21PM
The lowest possible federal government budget is $0. It means there isn't a federal government, at all. No courts, no presidency, no White House, no Congress, no FBI, nothing. Presumably, no such thing as US dollars too in fairly short order, since the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury both go away in this scenario.
The US tried something like that for the first few years after independence. It was called the Articles of Confederation, where the state governments were extremely independent and each sent a representative to the national government to coordinate the few things they were actually coordinating. We replaced it with the Constitution because the Articles of Confederation turned out to be pretty dysfunctional: The state governments didn't feel like contributing funds to the national government, so they didn't, which meant that the national government couldn't do things like establish a military sufficient to protect the nation from foreign invasion (from Native American nations, Brits, French, and Spanish) or internal rebellion (most notably that of Daniel Shays).
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