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    Default Re: GOV Shutdown or not?

    Just finished changing the oil in the dump trucks. Tomorrow by COB I'll know if I need to start lining up additional jobs. My crew will run them during the day and I'll run them at nite. Anyone know how to drive a 13 spd 32 ton dump. I'd like to keep them both working 24/7.

    Shut it down.
    In Dog Beers I've only had two.

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    Default Re: GOV Shutdown or not?

    Quote Originally Posted by burrocrat View Post
    Yes.

    Wake up call, shut it down and make it at least 3 weeks please. If we don't wake up and get serious about fixing it now, when it breaks for good it will be way worse than a furlough.

    And I hope we don't get paid for not working. That is just plain wrong. Everybody has some skills to give, get with the program and figure out a different way to contribute and earn during the downtime. It helps build character.

    A couple of extra days for yardwork this weekend, then on Wednesday I start my temp gig fixing fence, working cattle, and getting some quality tractor time in a beautiful rapidly greening spring outside. Yes!

    If you're nice, maybe Show-me and I will share some of our rice with you.

    Come on out, we'll show you how to barter labor for silver and food. Better be some good labor though.
    Who needs food? Good time to start a diet, do some laps on the Gulf of Mexico and work on my summer tan at Pensacola Beach!

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireWeatherMet View Post
    Hope that wasn't too harsh.
    Not for me
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    Default Re: GOV Shutdown or not?

    No Shutdown and the markets Rally tomorrow.

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    Red face Re: GOV Shutdown or not?

    Shutdown and the markets Rally tomorrow
    Lookin' up at the 'G Fund'!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by poolman View Post
    No Shutdown and the markets Rally tomorrow.
    Quote Originally Posted by Boghie View Post
    Shutdown andthe markets Rally tomorrow
    What did y'all take for dinner?

    The markets TANK...
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    Red face Re: GOV Shutdown or not?

    The difference between now and 1995 is the scope of the problem.

    We cannot solve an annual deficit of $1,600,000,000,000 without absolute cuts in spending.

    We don't have to cut spending by $1,600,000,000,000. If we stay away from the private sector and reduce the regulatory stupidity we will grow the economy.

    We are probably looking at lopping off about $900 Billion.

    That, obviously, is a big number.

    But, not many want to pay for the bloated government we are getting
    Lookin' up at the 'G Fund'!!!

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    Default Re: GOV Shutdown or not?

    Quote Originally Posted by Boghie View Post
    ...not many want to pay for the bloated government we are getting
    But many want the money FROM the government.

    It's a 50:50 tie right now, so it's a little hard to get this fixed...
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    Quote Originally Posted by FireWeatherMet View Post
    I voted NO.

    But to share the pain, I think all gov't expenditures should be on the furlough table.

    Civilian, MIlitary, Retirement. People forget how much the gov't is in charge of, and putting it all on the table is more representative (and a bitter pill to swallow for those who say "get gov't out of our lives, uhm except where it personally benefits me"). This way many military and retiree seniors would at least be putting their $$ where their mouths are...IMHO.

    Hope that wasn't too harsh.
    If there are too many govt employees, curb how many people you hire. If they get paid too much, change the pay scales. If my taxes help to fund social security, then damn it, I expect to get a social security paycheck. If I was promised a pension after 20 years of service, I expect that pension. Things that people EARN should not be messed with. There is a difference between taking away what someone has earned and not having enough money because the government is too busy wasting our tax dollars. If a third world country needs our military assistance, charge them for our services! Barter our fighting power for oil. Geez!
    Get rid of all the PORK! Eat more chicken!

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    Default Re: GOV Shutdown or not?

    Quote Originally Posted by RealMoneyIssues View Post
    What did y'all take for dinner?

    The markets TANK...
    Really? Did you notice that? Remember hearing something about buy low, sell high?

    Decision Logic:
    If markets TANK = buy
    If markets Boom = sell

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    Quote Originally Posted by jpcavin View Post
    If there are too many govt employees, curb how many people you hire. If they get paid too much, change the pay scales. If my taxes help to fund social security, then damn it, I expect to get a social security paycheck. If I was promised a pension after 20 years of service, I expect that pension. Things that people EARN should not be messed with. There is a difference between taking away what someone has earned and not having enough money because the government is too busy wasting our tax dollars. If a third world country needs our military assistance, charge them for our services! Barter our fighting power for oil. Geez!
    Get rid of all the PORK! Eat more chicken!
    Thank you and well put..reps for you
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    Default Re: GOV Shutdown or not?

    Quote Originally Posted by jpcavin View Post
    Really? Did you notice that? Remember hearing something about buy low, sell high?

    Decision Logic:
    If markets TANK = buy
    If markets Boom = sell
    Might as well since the buy high, sell low hasn't been working
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