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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime to quit calling it a shutdown, this is a lockout
It's just like the old factory owners that would lock the gates to bust unions or worker movements. Trump complains about the "Deep State" and this is his way to break them.
Look at the affected workers, they are in law enforcement, regulatory agencies, and the IRS. Surprise, that's where he has the greatest risk to his fortune and freedom.
In all honesty, immigration means nothing to him. This is all about ego and his racist base.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)making is glaringly obvious how degenerate republican values are...
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
Zoonart
(11,749 posts)solidarity with Federal Workers locked out of their jobs. JMHO
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)He's already threatening emergency powers to build his wall. What would he do if faced with a general strike?
He thinks he's Mussolini, it would get ugly quickly.
Zoonart
(11,749 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)They're being forced to work for no pay. Only the government can force employees to work without paying them. Private companies that don't meet their payroll find themselves with no workers.
Think about that...
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)He's using the federal government the way a feudal lord treated the vassals.
Baitball Blogger
(46,575 posts)Hugin
(32,778 posts)It started before President Obama took office.
Some of the low points:
The continual attacks and dismemberment of the ACA.
Numerous previous shutdowns and the hobbling of important government services.
The blocking of the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice.
Voter suppression.
Travel bans.
Violation and backing out of decades old treaties with allies.
Sanctions lifted.
and so forth.
The mystery now is why there's not more uproar from the rest of the Senate.