Apparently just before the Park Service toner ran out, they were able to print these notices and erect a barricade. Note that their caring was unabated – rather than just protecting tourists from the dangers of the unsupervised memorial itself, they created a safety zone far enough so that we could barely see Lincoln’s statue. – Mike PÂ
Where’s sense of crisis in a 17% government shutdown?
By BYRON YORK | OCTOBER 5, 2013 AT 1:01 PM
Everyone knows the phrase “government shutdown” doesn’t mean the entire U.S. government is shut down. So in a partial government shutdown, like the one underway at the moment, how much of the government is actually shut down, and how much is not?
One way to measure that is in how much money the government spends. In a conversation Thursday, a Republican member of Congress mentioned that the military pay act, passed by Congress and signed by President Obama at the beginning of the shutdown, is actually a huge percentage of the government’s discretionary spending in any given year. And that is still flowing. So if you took that money, and added it to all the entitlement spending that is unaffected by a shutdown, plus all the areas of spending that are exempted from a shutdown, and added it all together, how much of the federal government’s total spending is still underway even though the government is technically shut down?
Road to Mount Rushmore. The National Parks Service placed the cones there to prevent viewers from stopping on the side of the road to view the monument
I asked a Republican source on the Senate Budget Committee for an estimate. This was the answer: “Based on estimates drawn from CBO and OMB data, 83 percent of government operations will continue. This figure assumes that the government pays amounts due on appropriations obligated before the shutdown ($512 billion), spends $225 billion on exempted military and civilian personnel, pays entitlement benefits for those found eligible before the shutdown (about $2 trillion), and pays interest costs when due ($237 billion). This is about 83 percent of projected 2014 spending of $3.6 trillion.”
Nation is run my vindictive idiots.
Fenced in the Washington Mall.
Fenced in WW II Memorial.
Fenced in Lincoln Memorial.
What next……..Cover up Statue of Liberty so nobody can look at it?
They voted to approve back pay for federal workers during the shutdown. Why not just let them work for pay?
Read the NYT today about the plans for the shutdown that were months in the making. Can those planners be charged with unlawful obstruction of government?
I work for the federal goverment . . . for the past two years, I have purchased my own office supplies. Things like paper, pencils, pens.