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What Happens If The Department Of Homeland Security Shuts Down
Moments ago we got another stark reminder from none other than the president himself, that the nightmare of all mega-statists, another (partial) government shutdown, may be just around the corner:
IMPORTANT: Congress is only one day away from another shutdown. #EnoughAlready pic.twitter.com/xz5DwiZ3Ef
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2015
The reason: as soon as tomorrow, the one part of the US government which to many is a manifestation of all that is broken with the current US "big brother" state of pervasive, ubiquitous surveillance and broken immigration policies, the Department of Homeland Security which was created in response to September 11, and which houses the agencies with jurisdiction over immigration law, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) may be shut down.
As ABC explains, the reason is that unlike the rest of the government, the DHS is subject to stopgap funding and "since September, Republicans and Democrats haven’t been able to agree on a full year of funding –- instead, twice since then they’ve agreed to fund DHS for a couple of months, each time hoping to reach a deal on a full year of funding. Time runs out again Friday night, but no deal is in sight."
Republicans irked by President Obama’s plan to give legal status to 5 million illegal immigrants say this time they’ll let DHS “shut down” unless the Obama administration backs down from its immigration plan. Democrats insist DHS funding shouldn’t be tied to a presidential action taken without Congressional approval. But if DHS does “shut down,” should you be worried? It depends who you are, and how long the shutdown lasts.
What happens if we go into the weekend without a DHS deal? In the event of a shutdown, the vast majority of DHS employees would stay on the job. DHS Secretary Johnson said earlier this week that about 30,000 of DHS's approximately 240,000 employees would be furloughed. The rest would be considered exempt and most would have to work without pay.
For everyone else, a brief shutdown won't have an impact. Should the shutdown drag on, this is how DHS official describe the "state-less" hell that would be unleashed:
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
- If a major snowstorm or earthquake or even terrorist attack hits a city or state, DHS won’t be able to send the state federal funds for recovery.
- State and local authorities rely on federal grants to afford many of their first responders, but new grant requests won’t be processed – potentially forcing cities and towns across the country to cut back on police, fire and ambulance services.
- Each month, FEMA trains thousands of state and local emergency personnel how to handle “very specialized” cases such as those involving Ebola, anthrax or sarin gas, but that training will stop.
CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION (INC. BORDER PATROL & CUSTOMS OFFICERS)
- 500 recruits currently in training in Georgia will be sent home, wasting significant amounts of taxpayer money already invested in them and possibly losing them as recruits.
- CBP won’t be able to replace or upgrade aging surveillance systems along the Southwest border
- Certain criminal cases against those trying to cross the border illegally or smuggle prohibited items into the United States will slow or stop, especially after lawyers at CBP are sent home.
SECRET SERVICE
- The Secret Service won’t be able to make certain security upgrades at the White House in the wake of several recent breaches there.
- The 2016 presidential candidates could be put at risk because the Secret Service won’t be able to pay “for the things we need” to protect them.
IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT
- ICE will miss out on hundreds of millions of dollars intended to address “unaccompanied minors” and families still crossing the Southwest border illegally.
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
- “Nothing to report here,” though training and other “non-essential administrative functions would cease.”
So will there be a shutdown? Here is Stone McCarthy with an answer looking at the probability of just that contingency.
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security will lapse after Friday if Congress doesn't appropriate funds through either a continuing resolution (CR) or legislation that funds DHS for the balance of the fiscal year. Recall that when Congress in December passed legislation funding the rest of the government through September, it chose to fund DHS only through February 27. Many Republicans hoped to use DHS funding to block President Obama's executive actions on immigration, and felt their odds would improve in 2015 after taking control of the Senate and winning a larger majority in the House.
As we wrote in our December comment, simply keeping the DHS on a shorter funding leash doesn't have much impact on Obama's executive orders on immigration. The DHS houses the agencies with jurisdiction over immigration law: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). USCIS would take the lead in implementing the President's executive orders on immigration, but doesn't rely on the annual appropriations process for funding.
The House did pass legislation in mid January that both funds DHS and explicitly prohibits the relevant agencies within DHS from implementing the President's immigration policies. But the legislation has stalled in the Senate, where Democrats have blocked it on four separate occasions.
Senate Majority Leader McConnell is planning to strip the immigration provisions from the DHS funding bill; a vote on a clean funding bill could come as soon as Thursday. McConnell wants to hold a separate vote on immigration, but Democrats say they won't agree to that until DHS is funded.
Assuming the Senate passes a clean DHS funding bill, what does that House do? House Speaker Boehner would have trouble getting the more hard-line members of his party to support such a bill. There's talk that a recent ruling by a Texas judge that blocks the implementation of Obama's immigration orders might give Republicans cover to support a clean funding bill, but that's far from clear. In the end, Boehner would probably need to recruit some Democrats if he wants to pass stand-alone legislation funding DHS, assuming he's willing to bring it to a vote.
We would put the odds of a DHS shutdown at less than 50-50. After their big win in November, GOP leaders pledged that they would prove that they "could govern," that government wouldn't lurch from crisis to crisis and that there would be no government shutdowns. We think the odds of Congress funding DHS through the entire fiscal year are probably also less than 50-50, however, and that DHS is funded again for a shorter period of time through a CR. (A very short CR of a day or two is also possible over the next day as Congressional leaders sort out the logistics of voting on a clean bill.)
If a shutdown occurs, we think it would be brief. The political repercussions of shutting the DHS could be negative, especially given recent events including threats to U.S. shopping malls and today's arrest in Brooklyn of three individuals charged with aiding the Islamic State.
In the event of a shutdown, the vast majority of DHS employees would stay on the job. DHS Secretary Johnson said earlier this week that about 30,000 of DHS's approximately 240,000 employees would be furloughed. The rest would be considered exempt and most would have to work without pay.
DHS hasn't published a detailed breakdown of employees that would be furloughed or exempt like it did in advance of the 2013 government shutdown. But the estimates published then serve as a useful proxy for what would happen in the event of a shutdown after Friday. The following table summarizes employees at the agencies within DHS that accounted for the great majority of employees in advance of the 2013 shutdown, and shows the number expected to be furloughed and the number expected to be exempt at that time.
As the table shows, USCIS accounted for 5.7% of employees in 2013, but just 1.1% of furloughs. As we noted above, USCIS doesn't rely on the annual appropriations process. Presumably its exempt workers would get paid, but we're not entirely clear on that. In the event of a shutdown, the operations of USCIS would for the most part continue. However, that may be a moot point for the President's immigration policies unless a higher court reverses the stay imposed by the court in Texas.
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Dont turn ZH into another media lapdog. DHS will be funded dont worry.
We party like it's Sept.10th, 2001
This is only designed to demonize them bitter clinger conservatives that control congress.
Do you really think a little price haggling is going to stop the Fascist-communist-totalitarian police state that is the US government from implementing complete domination over the citizens?
Get real.
Heres my budget - 0$ for ALL departments.
Oh no! Now they won't be able to find Elvis when he goes through airport security.
They, along with the military don't shut down. Period, EOC
The only "shutdown" will be the fear porn on the MSM.
And Politicians
If you want your ass fingered you can still getchur ass fingered at any US airport.
QED
"Democrats insist DHS funding shouldn’t be tied to a presidential action taken without Congressional approval."
Yes Democrats, we insist that you and the Republicans should be able to take unilateral action without Congressional or any other approval related in any way to the will of the people. And of course most Americans have their head firmly planted in a pile of sand. Any wonder why we're so cynical around here about party politics?
Democrats and Republicans - Opposite sides of the same worthless coin.
Anyone else hear the theme song from "Barnum and Bailey's Circus"?
What happens? The homeland becomes more secure!
The illegal border crossings will continue until DHS funding improves!!
Oh wait... they're happening anyway
PS Forecasting rain for this weekend, big spraying started last night out here, all over, today.
Duh
Talk about shutting some shit down....
Fewer people will get their balls jostled or their titties groped?
If DHS shuts down, which is highly unlikely, perhaps we should expect an event to prove to us just how important they truly are.
once created a bureaucracy can never be shut down.
DHS only employees 240,000 people?!?!?!
THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS!!! Hire more! Hire more NOW!!!
Nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program.
Very True.
I was ready to go on govliquidation.com to buy those 6 billion hollow point rounds for $1.00
Oh Toys, you witty, witty boy! Upvote for you!
And as if to prove the govt. doesn't know its ass from a hole in the ground, there's this:
Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2560750
I'm curious as hell to see how well this bright idea will fly...
OR they could just auction off all those 10bullets for every citizen. That should help pay for some more surveillance.
BINGO! I was thinking the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if they INTENTIONALLY didn't fund DHS, so they could stage another false-flag attack just to prove to us how indispensable they are. Who again would ever dare question the necessity of the existence of DHS. ONLY A TERRORIST WOULD.
lots of fluffers looking for a job
jostled LOL!
February 27th...
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What female agent is going to grab my balls at the airport if the tsa and dhs shut down? I feel left out, kinda lonely if that happens.
True, it's a cheap thrill, but as far as cheap thrills go it's pretty good.
Er ma gawd, won't someone think of the chitlins (and Handful of Dust's balls)?
If a major ... terrorist attack hits a city or state, DHS won’t be able to send the state federal funds for recovery.
They also would not be able fund the very same false flag attack that "the" state would require funds to recover from.
Is there anybody in the audience that really believes so called terror attacks and so called responses to terror attacks is anything more than a borderline circle jerk of prepubescent boys attempting to understand their sexuality? Come on, ya got your limp wrist-ed hand wrapped around another dudes love muscle, for goodness sakes. Is that manly behavior? Or. is it the manifestation of confused girly-boys?
We don't need DHS. DHS needs us and will kill and mame as many of us as may be required to make it appear otherwise.
The only people DHS serves is to protect the banksters and our employees, the whoring CSPAN gadflies selected by the "no receipt" Diebold machines.
Four words: "This is our land". And whoa be the muther-farker stroking his worm thing thinking otherwise.
Instead of the word TERROR being uttered 5,000 X a day across all media outlets it will be uttered 15,000 X
Who isn't numb to all this fantasy fuck fest by now.
Remember Tom Ridge the mastermind of yellow, orang, red alert days? And they actually intituted that shit.
What bullshit
Stop funding any of this crap
False flag to justify DHS expansion in preparation of derivatives collapse in 3, 2, 1...
And 30,000 uselesss parasites, so useless even federal employees can't find a reason to call them essential, get a paid vacation.
Yes and instead of calling it a paid vacation which is accurate they call it a "furlough". Last time we also funded the "welcome back" parties and I am sure things will be no different today. Congress already passed some bill to make sure the furloughed workers will be compensated. Like 80% are listed as "essentail" and ain't going anywhere.
Yes and instead of calling it a paid vacation which is accurate they call it a "furlough". Last time we also funded the "welcome back" parties and I am sure things will be no different today. Congress already passed some bill to make sure the furloughed workers will be compensated. Like 80% are listed as "essentail" and ain't going anywhere.
It's too late anyway it doesn't matter ninety percent of economy is running off gov, education healthcare defense everything else is gone
The fact that you could receive a downvote for this is proof of the rapid intellectual degredation of the ZH readership.
"The fact that you could receive a downvote for this is proof of the rapid intellectual degredation of the ZH readership."
I wonder who downed?.. Dems or Repubs?.. ;)
Well, I can't remember the last time ZH was linked to from HuffPo or Mother Jones, can you? :P
My money's on the Bible thumpin' warmongering little fucks still fawning over their own mental midgetry. Either that or the NSA Troll Squad. The downvotes for this post will serve as a nice barometer.
The "coin" is presented to make the electorate think they have a choice. They don't.
The "coin" is only about keeping the electorate divided.
The MSM spins the "coin" depending on the ficticious ideological assignment the oligarchs have provided to them.
I prefer to look at them as competing crime families. They have the same goals in general, though there may be some trivial ideological differences, and they'll both break your knees if you don't pay them the protection fees that they've declared that they're entitled to.
Even flipping a coin is the outsourcing of the risk/reward decision making process.
Just get Faux News, CommunalNewsNetwork, MSNBS & the rest of the Lame Stream Media Proxy to report on a planted story of "terrists" BBQing organ meats on the border, getting ready to spread out en masse & attack Red Robbins, Chipotles, The Mall of America, Apple Stores & New York City.
Dress them in dish towels & have them eat calf liver while proclaiming it is human liver on camera, and use dancing Israeli film crews to capture the whole thing and upload it to Instagram.
"I'm having a friend for dinner"
- Hannibal Lecter
Big O is having Reggie for dinner and wookie gets desert
Amazing how many are ignorant of this fact. All essential staff stay on the job but that wouldn't scare the sheep if they knew. That wouldn't get the budget raise and the bonuses lined up for the statists.
The dollar is set to rally 15 to 20% in the next 3 months.
That alone will be like a big terrorist attack against the American economy to which no service of the state can defend the country.
America will be totally priced out of the markets and this summer we’ll see a massive crash of the system.
other countries will profit from it in a big way and America wilk be painted in a corner, and that’s when the Abe techniques will be tried to devalue the dollar by printing faster and faster.
look at what happened to Japan in the last 20 years and expect the same to happen in America but at 10 times the speed.
And that’s going to crash commodity prices all across the board in dollar terms which will cripple the mining secotr creating shortages of a lot of commodities in the next 6 to 8 months.
There are plenty of folks here who suspect virtually everything as a false flag. Conservatives pushing for this battle with Obama will lose.
Firstly, regardless of outcome, the media will portray everything and anything even slightly negative as the result of Republicans blatant disregard for America's safety.
Secondly, this could provide the death blow to the conservative movement as I THINK those intent on tyranny will stoop to any level to achieve their goals, meaning that they will likely perpetrate a false flag attack on America that they will directly blame republicans. This is a high stakes game and as we have seen becoming ever more blatant, the transparency of this will not deter them.
They intend on taking it all, and not from a frontal attack, likely from our flank, or knowing Obama, most likely the rear.
I walk through Grand Central (NYC) every morning on my way to work. Today I saw 4 DHS "Police" with automatic weapons. This is the first time they have made an appearance in Grand Central. We have on any given day: NYC police, NYC transit police, NY State police and U.S. Army soldiers with machine pistols (generally about 8 on duty daily) but I have never seen these brown shirt SS DHS nazis before. I think they were scouting the FF opportunities to maximize their leverage.
Few realize the critical mass of potentialities we face. So many refer to the "black swan" event like it is some type of coincidence that will set things in motion. Does anyone think that so many fragilities can exist so accidentally? And does anyone think that those who have worked so hard to put all of this in place would rely on luck to see it through? Gun control and now internet control, all things coming into place, stacked against world financial collapse and multiple wars. Disasters everywhere yet downplayed by media, minimized by government, until the time is at hand. Coincidence, black swan, my ass.
Connecticut has already shown that gun control is a non-starter in these times.
In a country awash in laws and regulations, those who resist will be outlaws. The possession of cash or a gun in the wrong place at the wrong time will place you outside of the law. It was always a problem in some areas, but it has gone national. NSA is collecting metadata on everything and besides the fact that they can identify and track every movement, more importantly they have become the arbiters of fact, for who would ever be able to deny them, to refute any claims they might bring against us? They and only they will have access to the TRUTH, as they define it and declare it. IF they say you purchased a gun and IF they say you made threats on the internet....who the fuck is any of us to argue?
They simply do not have the resources to do that to 80 million gun owners. They can make an example of one or two people, but even that gets sticky. If they want to enforce gun control the government is either going to have to shut off the food, or go kick down millions of doors, and then it's on. When people in CT did not follow the new laws, enough did so as to make those new laws unenforcable. They can spy all they want, but at the end of the day, if people refuse to comply, you either have to do nothing, or send some jackboots out to enforce that law in the face of opposition that you have no doubt is armed. This is why gun control is a non-starter in this day and age. Attitudes are a lot different 20 years ago. A lot of gun owners have put their ears back, dug their heels in and are going to make the other side fight for every single inch that they take. Pushing the issue too far will result in another civil war, and except for the government, most of the gun control advocates are unarmed.
This is another reason they must control the internet. Without organizing a movement is hard to form.
"They, along with the military don't shut down. Period, EOC"
tru dat. I didn't think anyone (around this site anyway) would fall for this sorta MSM crap.
Heck, shut it down- and let DHS be the 1st.
It will be Bush's fault if it shuts down, since it happened during his watch.
"What Happens If The Department Of Homeland Security Shuts Down?"
FREEDOM?
Shut them down and keep the fuckers shut down.
Republicans irked by President Obama’s plan to give legal status to 5 million illegal immigrants say this time they’ll let DHS “shut down” unless the Obama administration backs down from its immigration plan.
This is bull shit. The Republicans are trying to stop Obama's High Treason on immigration. You might think ZH would show some respect for the Constitution, and some interest in Obugger's defiance of the law and a court order, but no. Same New Yawk agit prop as the rest of the media.
if it does shut down, be ready for a false flag event to get the sheeple to demand its return
This. So much this, it hurts...
Don't kid yourself, a crisis of that magnitude is far too good to waste on simply refunding the department. The republicans have been cornered. This will blow back bad on them, maybe even fatal...but i still support the issue. Fuck them all.
I can't tell if this is world class snark ("high treason on immigration?") or you actually believe this claptrap. And I'm also uncertain whether your upvoters can tell either.
Here's the reality - before Obama's executive action, we had 11 million illegal immigrants in this country that weren't gonna be doported. After his actions, we have 11 million illegals in this country who aren't gonna be deported.
Do you see any difference?
I do...the 50 million the will show up shortly after this is unconstitutionally walked through.
Bad precedent + weak spine + open invitation + chain migration + larger parasite class + destroyed/demoralized US middle class = Death of a Nation
Yes, I see the difference. Obugger wants them to vote and get immediate welfare. He wants tens of millions MOAR (than the twenty million or so we have) which is really what this fight is about. He wants to destroy the white middle class and he wants a race war.
His trashing of the Constitution is only a means to his evil ends.
and yes, I want the criminals deported.
http://clashdaily.com/2014/06/turning-texas-blue-35000-illegals-entering...
35K per month babamoron, thats the difference.. I think they should live at your house..
Anything will be said, if it obfuscates actual personal responsibility in any way.
Way to zap him MarketAnarchist. We are getting too many liberal retards on ZH days…
Oh. No. Wall Street might take over....
I would pay for all those welfare queen bureaucrats to simply go away.
My country really sucks, has been bled dry. I am moving on to the next one, the US, to milk it dry. Once it sucks like the one I am leaving I will move on to the next nation
-parasitic illegal leach
I keep looking through the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and ther Bill of Rights for all those alphabet agencies.
Perhaps you can point them out to me?
Standard Disclaimer: On the other hand, I may just need to see an eye doctor, because I can't read the fine print.
Here here!
*pops open a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2007* PARTAI!
You read the entire article in 30 seconds?
This is the impact: "What Happens If The Department Of Homeland Security Shuts Down"
Stock up on .223
http://www.mississippigunnews.com/2015/02/obama-issues-executive-order-b...
This ammo ban thing is a scam. There are a few problems with this ban threat:
1) Most notably the ATF cant create legislation out of thin air and they know it would be tied up in court for years.
2) The M855 round does not pass the legal test(s) to be classified as an armor piercing round according to existing law. The "green tip" is not an armor piercing round by definition, it is an enhanced penetrating round. Thats an important difference. Also it is the "Green tip" because it uses bismuth instead of lead and is therefore a more "green" ammunition for the environment.
But none of this matters. Taking the above 2 points under consideration I smelled a scam and its a classic!
The US military recently updated the Military Specification for M16 ammunition from the M855 to M855A1. The A1 designation means this is version 2.0 of the projectile design and it significantly addresses most of the performance problems associated with the old M855 design. Most people arent aware of this update and think that the M855 "green tip penetrator" you can buy off the shelf at Cabela's is the same thing our boys are using to killing brown people in sand. The two ammo designations are VERY different.
But the ammo manufacturers and distributors have TONS of this "old" M855 ammo on hand that they cant sell to the military and with ammo prices coming back down lower than pre-Newtown prices, how can they unload it and make more money?
Answer: Get their friends at the BATFE to propse an ammo ban. Nothing, and I mean *NOTHING* spurs gun and ammo sales like a looming ban.
Where the heck have you been? Obama has been making his own regulations based on NO law for years. Just ask the coal industry. He had no authority to shut it down. Obozo is a tyrant…
Dude are you serious right now? You are of the assumption that gov agencies can't make up regulations that act as law in this country? Holy crap moron wake up. I never attack people on this site, but your stupidity leads me to beleive you are either stupid, trolling, a government agent.
Pull your head right out of your ass please.
Dude are you serious right now? You are of the assumption that gov agencies can't make up regulations that act as law in this country? Holy crap moron wake up. I never attack people on this site, but your stupidity leads me to beleive you are either stupid, trolling, a government agent.
Pull your head right out of your ass please.
BS, they wouldn't have any problem selling that ammo slowly to keep supply low and they'd make more over the longterm. This could be cover for net neutrality, or immigration, but I doubt it.
It's more like "rule by chaos" or "shock and awe". Do a bunch of stuff all of a sudden and all at once to keep people confused and disorientated.
Would you rather have a lot right now or a little more later on down the road thats not guaranteed? Im guessing most US corpoerations would rather have it now. If youve been following ammo prices, this particular round was (prior to ban threat) less than it was before newtown.
You're saying that gun retailers have friends at the ATF, and that the ATF agreed to do them a favor?
You're insane.
Is that so hard to believe that there could be collusion? Naw because that would be a conspiracy!
Yeah, that would be like the EPA shutting down coal, or wood burning stoves! Or maybe FCC and Net Nutrality. Or DHS not deporting illegals. Fucking Idiot! 'cause that couldn't happen.
Thanks for renewing my confidence in our government and its actors. For a while now I have come under the belief that our government, especially our president, routinely ignored law, our constitution and generally the will of the people.
Thank you so much for instilling a completely new faith in our Government.
And please fuck yourself
Look at the smattering of off the wall, insane news linked on Drudge and you can see the exponential escalation of the agenda and quite frankly it's terrifying. Internet control coinciding with newly announced gun control laws.. Jesus H Christ we are in trouble.
Or Orrin Hatch voting to move the New AG rayciss through the Judicial committee...
"What Happens If The Department Of Homeland Security Shuts Down?"
No more FBI terrorist attacks agnist the American people and a bunch of tax money saved?
FBI is Department of Justice, not DHS.
In collusion it's all the same.
Heh.
Ah... he took EST and the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Course
precog. sign him up for the new pre-crime division within DHS.
He took the Evelyn Woodhed Sped Redding Course. His comprension has improvd 100%.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/treasury-wont-explain-decision-to-make...
We have more TSA Emplyees than Coast Guard. Jesus Frickin' Christ on a Pogo Stick.
LOL
Jesus Frickin' Christ on a Pogo Stick.
That's beautiful. Perfect mental imagery for the Looney Bin times in which we live
Don't just shut DHS down, burn it down!
the tint of ZH grows more yellow every day.
ROTFLMAO - There's a greater chance of the Fed being audited (which will never happen) than Homeland SS to ever be shut down...For a second! What a waste of 101010101010101 code!
that's a fact..........already voted the funding just a few minutes ago..
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senate-advances-homeland-security-fund...
celebrate, celebrate, dance to the muuu--sic!
worst case scenario would be false flag within 24h to find ground for funding... and little more
We don't even secure the borders of our homeland. Why do we need a department of homeland security?
NOTHING of significance will be stopped by a so-called "shutdown". Everything essential will continue, so no need to spread any BS. Over 80% of all staff will remain on the job, as for the other 20% - they should probably be left at home permanently!
I do my happy dance.
"Funny thing about weekends when you're unemployed...they don't mean quite so much...except you get to hang out with your workin' friends." - Primus
we've got a spaghetti western here on 36, I like spaghetti westerns
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Shut r down bitchez
Turn it off too.
This bloated SACK OF SHIT needs to shut down permanently!!
Don't worry, they'll shut that bitch down and blow something up the next day to justify double the funding and more loss of liberty. Better keep some fiat on hand for the weekend.
They will all be paid anyway so why shut it down. Report to work and watch porn at least.
FUCK THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY...
fucking facist mother fucking cocksukers...
YEAH, I SAID IT SO TRACK AWAY BITCHES...
I'll take: "What's the best way to tee up a false flag event?" for $1000 Alex.
The ice kicked me out of the grid for about a week. Everything is all fucked up usual I see.
Let them work without pay. At least now we won't pay them to molest our children every time we fly somewhere.
TSA work with no pay?..Then they will also steal all the childrens candy. So up the poison level of the candy!
Yes they will get all of their back pay....but if you are flying into the country...Customs will be a nightmare....hours to get thru I bet...
Everyone holds hands and dances in a circle and buys each other a Coke?
If there is no one at the border to watch incoming nice people, maybe 1 or [gasp] 2 not so nice people might slip across, but I'm assured by my Sec. of State that all is much safer now.
Keep stacking
Let the entire thing shut down. Every one of those agencies is just a tweak away from their next cluster fuck opportunity.
ho noes!
What is the current debt ceilling for the USA??
What's a debt ceiling?
It's located right below infinity.
To HLS I is say “..Good riddance to bad rubbish...”
What happens is I don't have to live in fear of my door being kicked in at 3am and being sent to a black site.
What happens if the DHS shuts down? Well, presumably everyone's chances of being hit by lightening will increase sharply.
Not worth the cost. Too many other agencies doing the same job. Just think about Airliner cabin doors with no locks and the consequences. It can not happen again unless the door is unlocked but we still get the all the extra surveillance. Very unnecessary but good for a Government afraid of it's People.
Theater. Really, really bad, 3rd rate theater written by K Street, over acted by lead stooges, and paid for by us, a captive audience forced to attend the gropings, scannings, swabbings, and being barked at by amoral mutants to remove our mini shampoo bottles... or else.
This beast will never die.
"What Happens If The Department Of Homeland Security Shuts Down?"
Everyone in America has their life get just a little bit better. Even if they don't know it.
Who will remember all my passwords and bank balances?
Who will track my voting record and internet posts?
How about the miles I drive?
Stuff like that!
Is this a trick question?> Does TSA fall under homey-land security? Will I have to fondle my own ballz at the airports?
Either that or you can get a volunteer Rainbow Obaminoid(tm) to suck your dick.
If DoHS shutsdown, then who will harrass me at the airport?
Big Brother Knows Best
more fucking dog and pony show, i'm goinna puke now
Fucking dogs and ponies? Where?
Been tellin' y'all but me oh my, nobody listens.... the end of the world is nigh, dogs fucking ponies, races intermarrying, the poor being bussed to rich neighborhoods, Earl Scheib shuttering and Earl Warren was never impeached.
Where oh where can I get my '62 Caddy painted pearlesent green by an expert team of highly trained bodymen for $29.95? This world is fucked.
> one of tallest residental building named 'The Torch' catches big fire in the middle of the night, cause unknown, media forgets the story in no time
> leaks released in media: Netanyahu 'wasn't correct' on Iran nuclear talks
> elections in Israel coming up
> trade blockade on the West Coast
> looming (DHS) shutdown
Isolated events? Some infighting? Or that's whishful thinking? Whatever.
I like the idea of making government employees work without pay. Let's do that. What a savings!
Your post was funny because you mentioned work and government employees in the same sentence,
What happens? Easy, actual cross-boarder commerce...
Let me be clear FUCK'EM, we already have the CIA, border patrol and a host of other alphabet agencies, we don't need this one.
Er... Border Patrol is under DHS. They are going to continue to work without pay. But still, fuck DHS.
I bet those interior general crime, err drug, err 'immigration' checkpoints still operate.
What happens if DHS shuts down ... Waves of invading ISIS hordes will begin rolling into a city near you ... Lord save us
Shut 'em down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh3WrltAtgA
My guess is jobless claims will hit a new low record.
"What Happens If The Department Of Homeland Security Shuts Down"
Hooray!
I don't know.