Governmant Shut-Down 2025

 

Government Shut-Down 2025

          Q: When is it logical for a government to shut-down? A: When the government is being replaced.  Revolution, peaceful or not, is the only logical time to shut-down a government.  Even then … it would be wise to keep the experienced public servants in place.  Can anyone of sound mind dispute this?  I think not.

          If a government sends home, without pay, its workforce for an unspecified period of time and without a logical reason it is alienating.  The good-will of that workforce will not be easily earned back.  The good will of the population should be the same.  Those legislators who vote for a shut-down have no stoppage in their wages.  But the working public servants do and there is no payback for lost wages.

          The political parties like to threaten each other with government shut-downs.  It isn’t an idle threat.  There have been over twenty government shut-downs in the last fifty years.  They have been initiated by both political parties.  To put an end to this ridiculous practice we need a constitutional amendment to make a shut-down illegal.  Votes need not to be taken on the entire budget, but on the individual changes being proposed.  It would take a sixty per cent vote to change any line item.  If no budget is passed by the assigned date, the previous year’s budget remains in effect.  Simple but effective.

Cheers, Old Buz     10/05/2025

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Remember:

“ONE cannot fool all of the people all of the time … and that is why we have TWO political parties.” - Anon                                                                                                                    

Smithsonian/Trump/Impeachment

 

Smithsonian/Trump/Impeachment

In America our President has initiated a new form of history.  He often does this in speeches and in talks from the Oval Office.  But this transaction with the Smithsonian Institute seems small and somewhat humorous.  The institute modified a presidential display which included the entire history of Presidential Impeachments.  Trump had two impeachments from his actions in his first term in office.  Two is a record in American history and Trump would like not to hold that record, which he terms a hoax.  The two impeachments were issued by a Democratic majority in The House of Representatives.  When the indictments were sent to the Senate for trial, he was found not guilty of both impeachments.  The Smithsonian has removed the history of impeachments after 2008 (Trump’s impeachments).  History is ruled from the Oval Office.

 

We no longer have a functioning democracy in America.  Our representatives primarily vote straight party line (a “rubber stamp”).  They do not vote their wisdom or their conscience.  Political parties have outlived their usefulness.  In the second Senate Impeachment Trial, the Republican Senate voted not to hear testimony or see evidence in documents.  That sounds crazy if not for the fact that their votes were determined before the “trial”.  Most of the testimony in the first impeachment trial was given by Republicans, but not considered by the Republican majority.  Democrats would do the same, as illustrated in the Clinton impeachment trial.  This political folly is also a part of our legislation.  When Mitch McConnell was the majority leader of the Senate, he had over three hundred bills passed by a Democratic House of Representatives that he did not introduce to the Senate for discussion or a vote.  We had legislation by death on McConnell’s desk.  A Democratic Senator or a Republican Congressman that you elected had damn little influence on your government.  And now our President writes our history.

 

If an organization as strong and well established as The Smithsonian Institute cannot stand up for truth who can?  Certainly not your news corporations.  The reason why not is in their names.  After all, they are corporations.  Income is their guide.  Truth will not come from a crystal ball on the internet, it is too one sided.  You can trust your eyes and ears, but that gives you a very small radius of truth.  Your mind is not reliable unless the data that enters it is. And has it ever been the case?

 

Cheers, Old Buz      8/1/2025

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Awareness Guide:

“See what is plain to see.  Doubt if you don’t.” – Daniel

"If you're so smart ..."

    “If you’re so smart …”

   “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”  This is the quote most often used by the simple majority of our nation’s population.  It implies major stupidity on the part of the questioner.  The best example of this is the Trump Monkey, Elon Musk.  Jumping around on a campaign stage with a chainsaw in your hands and a MAGA cap on your head does not indicate “smart”.  No, being the richest person in the world is a better sign of insanity.  Extreme wealth is an indicator of greed and greed is a rapidly growing epidemic in America, the major symptom of which is squirreling away nuts for an imaginary winter.  Greed is the malignant form of the survival instinct, not an indicator of smart.

   We only have thirteen billionaires living in, as President Trump would say, “The Shit Hole State of Arizona,” in which I reside.  Thirteen isn’t very many, but the state’s government and education system still runs (as do all other states in America) to the music of money.  What started as a game for students to relax with, basketball is now the guiding force of the University of Arizona.  Basketball brings in money and education is generally a cost.  Please remember that the stated purpose of a university is to educate and yet our basketball coach has an annual salary of $3,700,008 and the President of The University (the head of education) is salaried at $1,016,018 per year.  That is to say that the chief educator earns less than a third of what the top coach makes at our university.  This is certainly in line with our nation’s interest.  Would the average Arizonan be more enthused by winning an NCAA Championship in basketball or the hire of the world’s brightest physicist to head the Physics Department at The U?  What about money’s influence on government.  I spent a couple of years as The Arizona Motorcycle Dealer’s lobbyist to the Arizona Legislature.  Financial power is the primary influence on the creation of legislation.  Does money write “smart” legislation?  The answer to that question is, “Only if a benefit to the wealthy happens to benefit all.”  That doesn’t happen very often.

  “Our government is the best government that money can buy.” and I guess that we can all be proud of that.

Cheers, Old Buz          5/18/2025

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