DHS Shutdown Will Do Less Harm To Economy Than Immigration Amnesty
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As Congress comes back into session this week the issue that is looming over them is the budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Back in December Republicans agreed to fund the government through the end of this fiscal year except for DHS. The DHS budget was only funded through the end of February so that Republicans could use its funding as leverage to block President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Even though a federal district court has temporarily blocked implementation of the executive amnesty, Republicans should stand firm and refuse to pass a DHS spending bill without strong language to stop the agency from legalizing millions of immigrants.
Back in the fall of 2013 House Republicans stood up to Democrats on the budget leading to a brief government shutdown. Not only did the world not end, but hardly anybody even noticed a change. About the only visible economic damage was caused by the National Park Service closing parks, causing economic losses for nearby businesses who depending on a steady flow of tourists. However, even in that case the people who did not spend money at or near a national park simply spent it somewhere else and no harm was done to the national economy.
In that most recent government shutdown, DHS only sent home 31,295 employees out of their 231,000 total. In simple terms, 87 percent of DHS employees kept right on working thanks to being classified as essential, while only 13 percent were sent home. There is an argument to be made that we need legislation so that agencies without Congressional authorization should actually stop operating (and probably a law to get rid of non-essential government employees), but under current law the reality is that a shutdown will have no noticeable effect on the important duties of the Department of Homeland Security.
Examples of the parts of DHS that were shut down the last time include research and development of new security screening technology, non-disaster grant programs for state and local governments, and civil liberties training programs for local law enforcement personnel. Does anybody really think we cannot survive without these activities for a few weeks?
In contrast, President Obama’s executive actions on immigration are a step toward two things that will do billions of dollars in damage to our economy. First, providing millions of immigrants with work permits will expand the supply of labor leading to lower wages for all workers. These impacts are likely to hit lower wage workers particularly hard. Second, by removing the threat of deportation (small as it may have been) the amnesty program will lead more immigrants to form families and have children. This will impose enormous costs on state and local governments who provide the vast majority of funding for K-12 education.
There are additional costs in the President’s actions such as the ability of newly legalized immigrants to apply for retroactive tax refunds, including refundable credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit. The IRS has confirmed the refund eligibility but has not provided an estimated cost. A little quick math suggests the cost will be somewhere in the $5-20 billion range annually with a larger cost possible the first year as newly legalized immigrants can claim back credits for multiple years.
Republicans have every right to not fund agencies that are implementing policies of which the Congress they control does not approve. It is Congress that is supposed to make policy by legislating while the President as head of the executive branch carries out that policy. On immigration, the President is trying to legislate and after so doing he should not be surprised that Congress chooses not to pay the bill for his unauthorized actions. The taxpayers should support the Republicans in blocking funding for President Obama’s executive action on immigration. Amnesty might have an appeal for several humanitarian reasons, but that is no reason that taxpayers and American workers should be stuck with the bill.
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February 22nd, 2015 @ 5:57 pm
ihv with the republican leader ship watch themn cave
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February 23rd, 2015 @ 3:28 am
Too many layers and layers of non-producing, redundant, federal government and UN parasites in suits need evermore revenues for their opulent salaries, fancy offices and building complexes, maintenance and support staffs, energy expenses, vehicles, perks, benefits, lifestyles and stacked pensions.
As federal gets increasingly more authoritarian and punitive toward it’s citizens.
YOO HOO, who do you think is paying for all of that?
WAKE UP, maybe next time you look at your pay check or worry about your own pension.
The American middle class is being destroyed in a sustained, systematic undermining which is necessary if a (now growing) federal Islamic totalitarian police state can exist.
One dollar spent on a ‘FEDERAL’ level cost 10 times more than if that same job was done on a ‘STATE’ level, logic would point to keeping federal government no bigger than our constitutional mandate, notice the federal government taking states property and states rights away form states and handing control of US properties and law making over to the UN?
Now add in the cost of the BEHEMOTHIC UN and the obscene waste and inefficiency of ‘world’ dollars.
YES our federal government is directly responsible for funding the UN and it’s hundreds of thousands of foreign pensioners that hate Americans.
Time to defund and reform federal into constitutional compliance, reign in regulatory down to it’s original intended purpose, defund the IRS and the Department of Education (responsible for all our LOW INFORMATION VOTERS), re-coup our state’s rights, take back federal land -our state’s property from the feds), time to take back control of our own waterways and national parks and de-fund the UN, kick them out of our country, claw back pensions and restitution of it’s assets starting with the IMF’s gold hoard.
US citizens (working and paying taxes) fund 22% of the entire UN world budget & our ‘federal’ regulatory is also back door funding the UN (with your taxes, especially the EPA). We have been funding the United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP) since 1972. How’s that sustainability & peace working out? How many of their ‘professors’ & administrators are now comfortably retired on obscenely fat tax funded pensions? The UN includes the ‘World Tourist Agency’, and it is tax funded.
When our own US citizens were furloughed, why wasn’t the massive 22%++ of US tax funding of the UN and it’s countless agencies, organizations and commissions withheld or even mentioned by MSM?
American citizens are on the globalist menu as are the Europeans, Russians and Chinese.
Hey federal employees, the globalists can’t create their NWO without you.
Google:
Time to Decide Federal Employees: Are You a Traitor or a Patriot …
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/ 2014/ 05/ 10/ time-to-decide-federal-employees-are-you-a-traitor-or-a-patriot/
May 10, 2014
February 23rd, 2015 @ 3:38 am
Our federal government ‘is’ the Rockefeller’s tool.
If you understand the treasonous club, things will make sense (as they talk about ‘restoring America’, they mock us behind closed doors and quietly empower Islam in public education, top government positions, Sharia Law in banking and enabling ISIS while appearing to fight ISIS).
Boehner, McCain, Kerry, Bush(s), Clinton(s), Graham, McConnell and who RINOs and all democrats bow to:
Check out the last 30 seconds of 2, then watch these two short videos:
youtube: Obama and Rockefeller 1
https://youtu.be/K6C24GpgQTQ
youtube: Obama and Rockefeller 2
https://youtu.be/M8vFSqYXJ8U
With the full backing of our traitorous federal monster government, the UN is ramming ‘Agenda 21’ and ‘Common Core’ (which is now proselytizing Islam to our children, Google it) down the throats of the world, the UN’s World Bank is complicit in forcing poor farmers off their own land in Africa and South America for corporate and endowment ‘tree farm/carbon credit’ investments, is deeming sovereign resources off limits, trying to eliminate (citizen’s only) the right to bear arms, our country’s sovereignty and our individual freedoms and now trying to force a ‘world’ climate change tax and ‘world’ wealth tax on us AND under the guise of saving us from asteroids, the UN is trying co-opt the US space program, it’s technology, resources and an on going effort to control the internet and MORE OF OUR TAXES.
YOO HOO! Imagine the savings if our country stopped funding the UN.
Lagarde’s (IMF) salary is over $300,000 + per year PLUS tens of thousands in ‘stipends’. and she PAYS NO TAX.
“most UN employees pay no tax”.
The IMF and World Bank are UN agencies of now countless agencies, commissions and organizations, one big Trojan Horse and tool of a few dynastic families, sucking the wealth, sovereignty, freedoms and life out of the world.
The IMF is nothing more than a world asset stripping debt collector for the western alliance globalist elites.
Global taxation, a ‘one world’ currency and open borders are all part of the globalists plan to eliminate sovereignty of nations.
10 nations that control the world’s gold – MarketWatch
Oct 20, 2012 … The International Monetary Fund is the third-largest official holder of gold, with more than 2,814 tonnes.
Where’s all that IMF gold coming from? (Ask NATO< Libya? Egypt? Tunisia? Ukraine? soon Syria?) And Germany can't get their's back?
The IMF is getting fantastically rich, while the world is collapsing into poverty.
The IMF is ANOTHER UN agency, it is not a 'nation', it has been deemed 'supranational sovereignty' (deemed by the UN's 'International Court of Justice' -yep, another UN agency). so the UN creates an agency to deem itself and it's other agencies supranational sovereignty over the world and makes it's own laws, decides it needn't pay any tax nor provide any revenues -sweet deal if your a UN employee.
UN? Proven corrupt, unelected, made up mostly of 3rd world dictatorships.
NATO, the UN and all of it's agencies, commissions, organizations, etc (UN agencies include the IMF and World Bank), all have the same boss, they're all really just tentacles of the giant, globalist vampire banksters squid.
Notice the elimination of individual accountability? 'NATO' decided this or that, the 'UN' deemed this or that, and we must all comply regardless of our rights, freedoms and laws of OUR OWN COUNTRY. Any official that your taxes fund needs to be thrown out if they support the UN. The working tax payer needs to be mobilized against funding the UN.
We have to stop giving credibility and decision making powers to unelected foreign entities that we are forced taxed to fund while they supplant our own country’s laws and sovereignty and take control over our resources.
Defund the DHS then go down the list and restore the USA and the American citizens.
February 23rd, 2015 @ 3:40 am
“There is a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot.”
– President John F. Kennedy
President Kennedy was murdered 52 years ago in a modern day coup in America. Those responsible for the assassination were never punished and the evil that they ushered in has grown and grown since November 22, 1963 to the point now where we are in unlimited wars, the economy is a shambles, our vital constitutional freedoms are mostly lost, Our country is in danger of being over run by Islamic radicals, and we are facing the Third World War/Armageddon.
Most constitutional conservatives know this.
Black US citizens, white liberals, or Asians, gays, students, women, a Latinos US citizen or not, must put futile party affiliations and self interests aside, wake up to our new reality. Illegal immigrants will soon be given the right to vote and they must be informed as to what is happening to our country and what elected officials are allowing it.
America’s last chance:
Vote OUT all RINOs and democrats like your job, wealth, health, privacy, your kids well being and education, your property rights, self protection rights, our states rights, our county’s sovereignty, our Constitution and your LIFE depends on it.
February 23rd, 2015 @ 5:34 am
No doubt the dhs is not the only agency we could do without. Our second amendment, which they are so determined to undermine would handle most of the foreign invasion and security concerns adequately. None of governments agencies do the job for which they procure our hard earned money. They only make up excuses, or even stage events for the purpose of demanding more.
Foolish trust in government and naive complacency is leading to our doom. Governments ARE the manifestation of the great evil of which our Christian bible warns us.
February 23rd, 2015 @ 1:33 pm
Yes, indeed!
JFK was quietly trying to do something (like printing non-federal reserve notes) and this was pegged by some back then, as to why he was killed.
At that time, we were told that it was a right-wing coup…(and it may have been?)…
So now that we have the nwo/sharia law types on the horizon, we must assume that it is, again, a right-wing coup (against all of America and the whole planet!!)!
These people are not only some right-wing types, but they are all globalists and filled with evil! And they are the ones that put Obama in the WH…!
Everyone in Congress must clearly see who and what is happening to us…we all need to vote for a person that is NOT associated with these vile-vermon!
February 23rd, 2015 @ 1:43 pm
And we do need (ASAP!) the help of more judges and the Patriotic Military…
And we need them to do this up right!
To eliminate all those nwo/sharia on high, in odrer to end the perversion of our Country!
If these psychos get too far out of lime, then, we need to take a very strong stand and bring about the physical defense of America…to show them that (WE) are still HERE!!!
February 23rd, 2015 @ 2:32 pm
Kevin J Lankford, the problem is, if you use your 2nd Amendment rights against the illegal invaders, “our” government will go against you. The illegals have more rights than you do.
February 24th, 2015 @ 4:57 am
@ # 8;
I was merely reminding that an armed citizenry was our founding fathers intention for the security and defense of our Nation.