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U.S. Government Shutdown Agreement Reached, Covering the Next Three Weeks

posted by takyon on Friday January 25 2019, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-safe...-for-now... dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Senate Passes Short-Term Deal To Reopen Government, With Trump's Endorsement

President Trump has endorsed a bipartisan deal that would end the 35-day partial government shutdown. The three-week stopgap funding measure would reopen shuttered agencies while negotiations continue.

Trump announces deal to lift shutdown

President Donald Trump has endorsed a deal to reopen the US government for three weeks, after a record-breaking shutdown of federal agencies.

But the pact does not include any money that Mr Trump has demanded for a US-Mexico border wall.

See also: Dem senator unveils 'Stop STUPIDITY Act' to prevent all shutdowns
White House: 'Large down payment' on wall could end government shutdown
35 ways the shutdown is affecting America

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:09AM (3 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:09AM (#792146) Journal

    He's saying you can never really "own" your property. Even if you have no mortgage, you have to pay property taxes every year or the gov't will swoop in, sell it at auction and evict you. That's just like what happens when you don't pay rent to a landlord so in essence, the ultimate landowner is the government -- we all just rent from it.

    This is another way to think about sovereignty -- it's very hard to buy land AND sovereignty over that land. Until you can buy the latter, all you are ever buying when you buy land, is the right to rent it from the gov't.

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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:15AM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:15AM (#792150)

    Well, I can [youtube.com], but ... well, there you go.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:29PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:29PM (#792360)

    He's saying you can never really "own" your property. Even if you have no mortgage, you have to pay property taxes every year or the gov't will swoop in, sell it at auction and evict you. That's just like what happens when you don't pay rent to a landlord so in essence, the ultimate landowner is the government -- we all just rent from it.

    No shit. This is the real world, not sovereign fantasyland.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @06:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @06:26PM (#793149)

      fuck you, you goddamn whore piece of shit. it's cowardly suck asses like you who perpetuate this bullshit. guess what bitch? you will likely see civil war in your lifetime and i hope you get what's coming to you for all your years of seditious boot licking.