(01-21-2019, 04:22 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(01-21-2019, 04:02 PM)Jamies_fried_chicken Wrote: Question for any federal workers, how long are you all willing to be “great patriots” and work for free?

Ya know trump has a history of not paying people.

Ball is in Chuck and Nancy's court and has been for weeks.

How so? The House of Representatives sent Trump a spending bill the day they convened, January 3rd. It seems to me that both sides refuse to talk to one another (Trump's token gestures of "meet with me at the White House so I can tell you I'm not changing my mind" don't count), and they share equal blame at this point. Shutdowns don't reach a month when one side is extending an olive branch.

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(01-21-2019, 05:50 PM)B2hibry Wrote:

(01-21-2019, 04:32 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Like I said, either Mexico pays for it or Trump pays for it out of his own pocket. We don't need a wall. It would be a waste. Right now, we have parts of a barrier and people are just tunneling underneath of it. They'd do the same with a "slatted barrier" that Trump proposed. We need more funding for border patrol, drones and we could move some military bases to the actual border, so it is patrolled more thoroughly. That would be much better options than a ridiculous looking "slatted barrier."

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No. Trump has the ability to end this shutdown at any time and he refuses. He shutdown the government on his own and he alone can open it back up.

And I'll ask again...in what form of payment is acceptable for you? How do you want Mexico to pay?

Well, see, here's the thing. Trump promised to make Mexico pay for it. So I'm kind of expecting Mexico to send over bearer bonds in the amount of $25-ish billion dollars.

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