When the Nationwide Park Service was threatened with funds cuts (in D.C. this implies funds will increase lower than the pie-in-the-sky want listing of the forms in query) the top of the “service,” one George Hartzog, shut down the Washington Monument and Mount Rushmore. Members of congress from each state have been bombarded with complaints by vacationing constituents in regards to the shutdowns, so the discuss of funds “cuts” ceased.
This type of political extortion got here to be often called the “Washington Monument Syndrome” and is now routinely used in any respect ranges of presidency to extort much more income from American taxpayers. On the native degree of presidency there may be by no means any admission that value financial savings are potential. As a substitute, rubbish assortment, police, ambulance providers, and college buses are shut down to show the taxpayers a lesson each time anybody opposes the forms.
When our socialist practice system, Amtrak, was frightened about funds “cuts” it as soon as canceled practice site visitors in routes broadly utilized by influential members of Congress. Over time, Congress itself has discovered that it, too, can play the Washington Monument Syndrome recreation by threatening an entire authorities shutdown each time it’s frightened in regards to the passage of certainly one of its pork-infested, wasteful and abusive and largely unconstitutional “spending payments,” such because the funds that was earlier than Congress this week. The media develop into all abuzz with fearmongering in regards to the absence of welfare checks, Medicare and Medicaid funds, Social Safety checks, and on and on. After all, since there may be all the time appears to be sufficient within the funds to have the ability to ship a whole bunch of billions to the dictator of Ukraine, paying all of those payments could be a drop within the bucket by comparability. Threatening their elimination is simply one other spherical of the Washington Monument Syndrome recreation.
After a five-week authorities “shutdown” in 2018 (as a result of Democrats protested the constructing of a border wall) the Congressional Price range Workplace did a examine and concluded – Shock ! – that the economic system grew sooner through the shutdown and the inventory market rallied when tens of hundreds of federal bureaucrats have been despatched house with out pay. Which begs the query, why simply 5 weeks?
After President Trump proposed reducing the funds of the CDC from $11.5 billion to $7.7 billion in 2020, guess what? The CDC declared a pandemic, shut down not simply the Washington Monument however the whole economic system, and watched its funds enhance exponentially. The federal forms was on the excessive water mark of its totalitarian powers. “Conservative” Senator Tom Cotton instantly known as for shutting down the whole economic system and urged the Fed to print up sufficient cash to present everybody a “assured annual revenue,” the long-held pipe dream of the Communist Occasion USA.
As a substitute of fearing one other authorities shutdown Individuals needs to be hoping and praying for one – and never only a 5 weeker. What an incredible Christmas reward to the whole nation that will be!
