{"id":34689,"date":"2025-09-27T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=34689"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:46:04","slug":"let-the-daylight-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/let-the-daylight-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the Daylight In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supposedly October 1st<\/sup> is the deadline for the latest government shutdown scare.\u00a0 The Democrats have said that unless Biden\u2019s Obamacare boondoggles are extended and PBS gets funded, they won\u2019t vote for an extension of the present budget.<\/p>\n

Now the talking heads on the Left are split fifty\/fifty on whether this is a good idea or a terrible one.\u00a0 The conundrum is that if they allow the government to shut down, they will take a good chunk of the blame in the eyes of the public.\u00a0 In addition, Trump has indicated that unlike in shutdowns past, he doesn\u2019t intend to furlough federal employees.\u00a0 He\u2019s going to fire huge numbers in order to reduce the size of the federal government.\u00a0 And the great majority of these employees are Democrats.\u00a0 So, the feeling on the Left is that whatever blame Trump gets will not make up for the blame the Democrats themselves will get for abandoning their most loyal voters (federal bureaucrats) to the fate of unemployment and eventual starvation.\u00a0 After all these aren\u2019t rocket scientists.\u00a0 Most of these people aren\u2019t qualified to cross the street even with a traffic light.\u00a0 If the government lets them go, it\u2019s not even a sure thing they\u2019ll make it home successfully.\u00a0 Like lemmings they may all follow some confused creature into the Potomac where we can only assume they\u2019ll all be washed out to sea.<\/p>\n

So, I guess we have to see what Trump plans to do.\u00a0 If he does plan to eliminate some enormous number of federal workers maybe this is a watershed moment for the country.\u00a0 And who knows, maybe he also will ask the senate to take the nuclear option and eliminate the filibuster all together.\u00a0 And if they do eliminate it, maybe they\u2019ll go the whole way and then just enact a real honest-to-goodness budget like they used to before Obama gave up on federal budgets.<\/p>\n

So, there is the shiny happy version of things.\u00a0 What\u2019s the other choice?\u00a0 Well, firing millions of people, even useless stupid people will have economic consequences.\u00a0 Bureaucrats have dependents.\u00a0 Mostly they\u2019re cats but there must be some children too.\u00a0 And if all of a sudden there are millions of kids falling into poverty, this will have some consequences.\u00a0 If they\u2019re dire enough maybe it will anger Americans who hate to see poor people suffering.\u00a0 Maybe this will lead to the Republicans getting pounded in the 2026 midterms.\u00a0 And that would lead to divided government for the last two years of Trump\u2019s term.<\/p>\n

Well, you know, I think my gut tells me that the correct strategy is for Trump to \u201cgo big.\u201d\u00a0 Emptying out Washington DC is a once in a century situation.\u00a0 Doing it now hurts the Left almost exclusively.\u00a0 If all these people find themselves unemployed it will have a huge impact on elections.\u00a0 These are the Democrats\u2019 most loyal voters.\u00a0 But if they lose those government jobs something tells me they\u2019ll be too busy struggling to survive to bother voting at all.\u00a0 In fact, firing huge numbers of bureaucrats will change the whole ecosystem around Washington.\u00a0 Who knows, it might turn Virginia red again when all the carpetbaggers have to go home to mom and dad\u2019s basement in California, Massachusetts and New York.<\/p>\n

So go ahead DJT, start up that chainsaw.\u00a0 Let the daylight in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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