What price for?

$4 billion dollars, that's how much the current government shutdown has cost us. $1 billion dollars every week that passes with the issue unresolved. How very ironic that the amount in dispute is $5.7 billion, that amount will be met one week and three days from now.

What we've been deluded with in regard to illegal immigration isn't supported by any significant factual data, it's a deception. It's the most effective type of deception, one that takes just a pinch of truth and surrounds it with misdirection. These are the most dangerous of them, because they're so easily believed by many.

So are we to believe that for the will of a few, there are hundreds of thousands who are suffering, and potentially millions more in the coming weeks, who will be the ones who truly pay the price for the current child like behavior of our leaders. I said in a prior post that they truly have no regard for us and the truth to that is becoming ever increasingly clear.

What's even more outrageous is the thought that for the interests of the few, the very economy itself was placed at risk. Several economists anticipated a weaker first quarter for the 2019 year, which would be somewhat offset by the tax return season.

$140 billion dollars is injected into the economy each year at tax season, enough to keep the economy stable in a period of weaker activity, but it you take that cushion out from under it...well it doesn't exactly take an economic guru to see how foolish that decision is.

What's more, the presented solution to this hijacking of the people's business is forcing 60% of the employees of the IRS to report to work unpaid to process tax returns. The blatant contempt for the workers is on full display and couldn't be any clearer.

Perhaps those potential consequences hadn't been considered by those making the decisions, but just the willingness of those in power to be so readily willing to flirt with the notion of potentially destroying an entire nation's economy for the sake of interests that could be truly questioned is abhorrent in my opinion.

Where is the display of leadership in that?

-Richard Trotsky