Politicians Threaten to Shutdown Government AGAIN If Taxpayers Don't Give Them More Money to Waste on Themselves and Their Cronies

Obama was hosting the governors at the White House on February 24, 2015, before the agency's $40 billion budget is set to run out, because of a dispute over the president's immigration executive orders. Most of the Department of Homeland Security's 230,000 employees would have to keep working after the Feb. 27 deadline, but would not receive pay until Congress authorizes funding. "They all work in your states," Obama told the governors. "These are folks who, if they don't have a paycheck, are not going to be able to spend that money in your states."

 

"What happens if DHS, the Department of Human Sacrifice, shuts down? American taxpayers save BILLIONS of wasted dollars and aren't one iota less safe than they were before. Homeland Security is a sick joke played on the public; it's our government's way of exercising more control over its own citizens, scaring people into believing they have to be 'protected'. Just like 911 was the catalyst for first emphasizing the 'need' for such 'security', this government boondoggle does more for terrorists than for citizens (terrorists now know that airports are 'secure', so their next target will be a football stadium, shopping mall or another skyscraper where 'security' is more lax. Hitler did the same thing in Nazi Germany: he told a lie, made it a big lie, and repeated the lie often enough until the citizenry believed him. Then he took control and destroyed the German economy, forcing a police state on citizens that did his bidding. We are only a few Presidents/Congressmen away from such 'big brother' control. All it will take is some crackpot to finagle his (or her) way into the Oval Office (or the Speaker of the House position) and America will fall into the same trap pre-World War II Germans did." - RKO

"The DHS shutting down would be a good thing. TSA does nothing, and the militarized police that the DHS is creating envisages the police as more of an unaccountable occupying force than a part of the community that '"protects and serves'."  - Gargle Fargle

"Given what we spend on that Department, we should have tight borders and illegal immigration should be a minor annoyance rather than the unmanageable crisis it has become. But that is not the case. What we do have is a big gang of politician appointees and career bureaucrats taking (cant say they earn them) big salaries and pensions, attempting to look busy and scream about the vital service they provide but actually ACHIEIVING nothing. That and many other agencies should be defunded, disbanded and begun over--either outsourced or under heavy scrutiny." - chic

FACT CHECK: What happens if Homeland Security shuts down?

February 9, 2015

AP - Spending for the Department of Homeland Security hangs in the balance as Congress fights over immigration matters in the agency's annual funding bill. Without action by Feb. 27, the department's budget will shut off.

To hear Democrats and many Republicans tell it, the result would be unacceptable risks to U.S. security at a time of grave threats worldwide. In reality, though, most people will see little change if the department's money flow is halted, and some of the warnings of doom are as exaggerated as they are striking.