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Title: Obama threatens stopping paychecks to 143,000 Homeland Security employees at month's end if Republicans don't give up fight over 'amnesty' for illegal immigrants
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Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... mnesty-illegal-immigrants.html
Published: Feb 2, 2015
Author: David Martosko, U.S. Political Editor
Post Date: 2015-02-02 15:08:10 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 4350
Comments: 24
President Barack Obama claimed on Monday that without a comprehensive budget covering the Department of Homeland Security, more than 130,000 mission-critical employees will be forced to work without pay by the end of the month. They include 40,000 employed by Customs and Border Protection, 50,000 Transportation Security Administration screeners, 13,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and 40,000 Coast Guard personnel. Pay would be restored at the end of any withholding period. 'I know how vital you are, and I want to make sure more Americans know how vital you are,' Obama told an auditorium full of DHS employees Monday the department's headquarters, as the White House rolled out his $4 trillion budget request for 2016. In addition, it's likely that 4,000 people who work for the Secret Service will see paychecks on hold if Obama doesn't strike a deal with Republicans in Congress, along with . President Barack Obama spoek to Department of Homeland Security employees about his 2016 budget proposal on Monday, also warning congressional Republicans that he won't accept a spending plan that withholds DHS funding over Washington's epic immigration fight 'I want to make sure you have what you need to keep getting the job done,' he said. ANNUAL TRADITION: Journalists photographed copies of the president's budget proposal, which is considered a dead letter in Congress 'The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with them,' he added. Republicans agreed in December to fund most of the government through September 2015, but put Homeland Security on a shorter leash in order to keep their leverage as Obama threatened to implement sweeping changes to America's immigration enforcement policy. DHS’s funding runs out in less than four weeks, and could be stopped entirely if Obama continues to pursue his plan to give residence and work permits to 5 million or more illegal immigrants. GOP leadership calls the plan 'executive amnesty,' and insists that Congress – not the White House – has sole authority to determine who may and may not legally stay in the United States. The president pushed back on Monday as he rolled out the larger budget designed to get America through September 2016. That budget would add $474 billion to the national debt. 'I will not accept a budget that severs the vital links between our national security and our economic security,' Obama said. 'Those two things go hand in hand,' he insisted. But that budget is likely dead on arrival since he is proposing higher taxes on wealthier Americans and job-creating companies. 'Like the president’s previous budgets, this plan never balances – ever,' House Speaker John Boehner said Monday morning. 'It contains no solutions to address the drivers of our debt, and no plan to fix our entire tax code to help foster growth and create jobs.' 'Worse yet, President Obama would impose new taxes and more spending without a responsible plan to honestly address the big challenges facing our country.' Boehner pledged that he would present a balanced budget that 'will help promote job creation and higher wages, not more government bureaucracy.' In the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell charged that Obama's budget is a 'top-down, backward-looking document that caters to powerful political bosses on the Left.' Obama's budget includes an unprecedented $478 billion public works program that promises to repair crumbling highways, bridges and public transit systems, largely by providing jobs to Democrats' powerful labor union constituency. Its tax rate on capital gains – investment income – would be the highest in America since 1997. The president is demanding a 7 per cent increase in domestic spending and the defense budget, undoing the fiscal restraint that marked the 2011 budget deal. Obama called those cuts 'mindless austerity.' On Monday he quoted an unnamed Republican whom he said had insisted that if DHS funding were on hold, 'it's not the end of the world.' 'I guess that's literally that's true,' the president said. 'It may not be the end of the world. But unril they pass a funding bill, it is the end of a paycheck for tens of thousands of front-line workers who will continue to have to work without getting paid.' That was different from what he said last week in Philadelphia, when he implied that the department would actually shut down its operations in the wake of a budget impasse. PAYCHECK POLITICS: Obama warned DHS workers that they might have to wait for their salaries after February 27 'What do you mean, "It's not the end of the world"?' Obama said on Jan. 29. 'That’s all you’ve been talking about. And now, suddenly, because you want to make a political point, you think that we can afford to have the Department of Homeland Security not functioning – because of political games in Washington?' The GOP congressman who said it wouldn't be 'the end of the world,' Florida's Mario Diaz-Balart, was referring to the fact that critical functions wouldn't stop. 'It's not the end of the world if we get to that time because the national security functions will not stop – whether it's border security or a lot of other issues,' Diaz-Balart had told Politico. 'Having said so, I think we should always aspire to try to get it done.' Obama was chastened by The Annenberg School of Communications' FactCheck.org website, which declared that he had 'fudged facts in Philly.' So on Monday he focused instead on a temporary stoppage of paychecks, the same phenomenon employees across all cabinet agencies saw in 2013. 'These Americans aren't just working to keep us safe,' he said. 'They have to take care of their own families. The notion that they would get caught up in a disagreement around policy that has nothing to do with them makes no sense.'
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
Cut those thug porker pig cops off---they don't do s**t for us anyway except
conspire to violate rights while letting the bad guys into the USA. Tell them to
go get real jobs and leave the people and taxpayer's money alone.
Fine Barry. Do it. You want your little Mexicans & Latino's so bad. The next step, GOP should cut off all funding for the White Hut, and all of his staff!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
The possibility of ending the Department of Homeland Security, an agency that didnt exist until several years ago, and which now constitutes a politically oriented indiginous private army of goons is a cause for national celebration.
While i would love to see his bluff called, I'll wager that it is the republicans that put their tails between their legs and capitulate.
You better believe it, you clown.. This new department is completely unneeded.
I think we can count on that, Bob.
Can't do that. That would be racist.
Awesome. Then Republicans pass a law that says that if the President doesn't pay a department of government that has been funded- then Congress will pay that department from government retirement funds. DONE. NEXT.
Sad isn't it that we have so little faith in those we send to high public office.
You leftists get all emotional over your dream of open borders and no border patrol.
"The biggest mistake that libertarians make is the way they view government and private sectors. Government is the root of all evil, and the private sector is the source of all good. Libertarians have never figured out that people are the same whether in the government or in the private sector." --Paul Craig Roberts
Audit Mooch and her vacations.
"The biggest mistake that libertarians make is the way they view government and private sectors. Government is the root of all evil, and the private sector is the source of all good. Libertarians have never figured out that people are the same whether in the government or in the private sector." --Paul Craig Roberts
YES! What I wouldn't give to be able to play this game with Obama and the Dems. WHY do the Republicans act like it is a burden to be where they are? They could hit back hard, stir up tons of drama for The WON and have fun.
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=35372
Gosh, Barry, so if we don't give you what you want, you're going to cut off a whole useless DEPARTMENT and send them home without pay until we cave? Do you PROMISE?
Amazing, ain't it. REPS play Washington Generals to Obama's Harlem Globetrotters. Makes you wonder if a fix is in.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
It's not as though there is much of a choice. There's not a lot of difference between RNC and DNC backed candidates.
Do you PROMISE? Somehow, I don't think that's going to be Boehner's response.
I don't speak Russian, though I do read most of the letters. I'm not going to use a translation program. I want to see if I can decipher this - an approximation of what it means - for the fun of it, and to test language proximity. This looks like it says: Potomoo Chto bog HoChet tot pooti Tot looks like "tout", which is French for "all". Pooti looks like "putain", which is French for "whore". "eto" looks like "etre", which is the French "to be". So, somebody here are all whores. Potomoo sounds like "Potamus" (Or "Potomac"). Potamus means river in Greek (a "hippo-potamus" is a "horse of the river"...the Greek who gave that name must have been drunk as a lord). So the first word might be "River". Or it might have a fluid sense, like "whoever" "Chto" I think means "Who". "Bog". Ug. Well, "b" and "v" are frequently interchangeable. So let's look at "Vog". Vog. I seriously doubt we're talking "vogue", or "bog" either (though it would go with the "river" to have bogs). But "vogue" is a form of "voir", which means "to see". So I'm betting that it means something like "see" XoCHet. Koshet? Hoxxxet? No idea. But if my sentence means "Everyone you see XOCHET are all whores", then I I'll guess it means "over there" are "around" or "among them" or something. So I think it means "Everyone of them is a whore", and I think it refers to politicians. Now I'm going to go find a translation program to find out what it actually means. That was fun. My family's on a plane to Moscow tonight, actually. Moscow in February. Seems like a bad idea.
"Because God wants it that way"! LOL!
Sad but true. Both parties would rather use the mistakes and intentional gutting of the Constitution for political gain rather than impeach or discipline members of the body politic. I have been counseling a man who committed a crime, but since he did while on a police force, instead of jail time he was allowed to resign.
LOL! Thanks, I think so too. I had that line translated for me into Russian when I had a consulting gig in Armenia in the mid-late 90s. I just got tired of answering the question Why?
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
This petty little dictator needs a smack-down! Clint Eastwood applies here: "Go ahead, make my day."
If outright extortion doesn't impel Congress to do something, I guess nothing will.
You got that right. Wasn't it created under el jorgo busho?
Si vis pacem, para bellum
#2. To: cranky (#0)
" Obama threatens stopping paychecks to 143,000 Homeland Security employees at month's end if Republicans don't give up fight over 'amnesty' for illegal immigrants "
#3. To: cranky (#0)
Obama threatens stopping paychecks to 143,000 Homeland Security employees at month's end if Republicans don't give up fight over 'amnesty' for illegal immigrants
#4. To: cranky (#0)
#5. To: Y'ALL (#0)
Obama --- you think that we can afford to have the Department of Homeland Security not functioning – because of political games in Washington?'
#6. To: BobCeleste (#4)
While i would love to see his bluff called, I'll wager that it is the republicans that put their tails between their legs and capitulate.
#7. To: Stoner (#2)
The next step, GOP should cut off all funding for the White Hut, and all of his staff!
#8. To: cranky (#0)
#9. To: cranky (#6)
#10. To: TEA Party Reveler (#1)
Cut those thug porker pig cops off---they don't do s**t for us anyway except conspire to violate rights
#11. To: AntiFreepers Never Die (#8)
#12. To: Palmdale (#11)
#13. To: AntiFreepers Never Die (#12)
#14. To: cranky (#0)
#15. To: AntiFreepers Never Die (#12)
What I wouldn't give to be able to play this game with Obama and the Dems. WHY do the Republicans act like it is a burden to be where they are? They could hit back hard, stir up tons of drama for The WON and have fun.
#16. To: BobCeleste (#9)
Sad isn't it that we have so little faith in those we send to high public office.
#17. To: Vicomte13 (#14)
Gosh, Barry, so if we don't give you what you want, you're going to cut off a whole useless DEPARTMENT and send them home without pay until we cave?
#18. To: SOSO (#15)
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
#19. To: SOSO (#15)
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
#20. To: cranky (#16)
There's not a lot of difference between RNC and DNC backed candidates.
#21. To: Vicomte13 (#19)
Because God wants it that way"!
#22. To: cranky (#0)
#23. To: out damned spot (#22)
This petty little dictator needs a smack-down!
#24. To: tpaine (#5)
" This new department is completely unneeded. "
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