Four Points for Avoiding Government Shutdown

 I thought to write a few reasonable guidelines to avoid government shutdown when bi-partisan negotiations are at loggerheads. Here are a few principles

1) The borders need to be secured against illegal entry. That is equivalent to locking the doors of a home. The homeowners may then be able to choose who may enter the dwelling rather than home invasion specialists.

2) If a divided congress wants to decrease and increase spending the federal budget should remain unchanged. The right time to alter budget levels is when broad bipartisan support for a change in one direction is present or when a single party in control of both houses of congress was elected to do so. Democrats had the opportunity to raise taxes on the rich to fund budget increases or pay down debt if they chose to do so during the first two years of the Biden administration and did not act on the matter.

3) Federal funding should never depend on funding a foreign government. Foreign government funding such as the twenty billion dollars Democrats want for Ukraine should not be included in budget negotiations unless there is broad bi-partisan support, and even then it is questionable that any amount at all should be included in basic federal budgeting since a foreign government is not the U.S. Government. If war mongers insist some sort of special appropriations vote in Congress on a special one-time disbursements to an alien nation that has in the past employed the President’s son might be held at a later time unrelated to legislation that could shut down the U.S. Government.

4) All federal food assistance programs including school lunch programs and WIC should be funded during an emergency government shutdown. If half of the children of the U.S.A. are poor and with food funded by WIC the poverty is enough of a disadvantage without adding malnutrition to their life opportunity vectors.