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Federal Shutdown Beatdown on District of Columbia

POSTED BY: GEEZER
UPDATED: Saturday, April 9, 2011 06:41
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Friday, April 8, 2011 12:31 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Although the City of the District of Columbia has its own non-Federal budget and collects its own taxes, the Federal shutdown rules apply to D.C.s government as well as the Feds. D.C.'s non-voting Representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton, introduced a bill to let D.C. use it's own money to keep operating, but there's no movement on it so far. So Saturday, the DMV and public libraries in D.C. will shut down. Trash won't be picked up for at least a week. Parking enforcement will be curtailed. The Cherry Blossom Parade on Saturday will be shortened, and probably any other parades, demonstrations, etc. which need police support or escorts will be curtailed.

Meanwhile, all the museums and attractions under Federal purview - The Smithsonian, National Gallery of Art, Air and Space Museum, National Zoo, C&O Canal, nearby National Parks, etc. - will be shut down at the beginning of tourist season and of the commemoration of the beginning of the Civil War. Even volunteer efforts to clean up National Park lands and waters in and around the District have been canceled, and volunteers told not to try cleanups anyway or face arrest.

Also, with a large percentage of Federal workers and Federal contractors not going to work, downtown retail and dining establishments, as well as those near other Federal office buildings in the metro area, are going to lose a good bit of business.

As you might guess, Congressfolk of any stripe aren't to popular in the D.C. metro area right now.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Saturday, April 9, 2011 2:23 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Well, looks like no shutdown, but the House apparently couldn't pass up the opportunity to micro-manage the city in support of their agenda.

Quote:

Budget deal includes abortion and school voucher riders
Saturday - 4/9/2011, 7:40am ET

WASHINGTON - The D.C. Area may be breathing a collective sigh of relief after a last minute deal was struck to prevent the government from shutting down Friday at midnight, but the the deal includes two controversial provisions aimed at the District.

One of the policy "riders" still included in the budget would prevent the city from using any local or federal money to pay for abortions for low-income residents.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has been fighting against that provision.

The deal also includes money to restart the city's school voucher program.

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program has been a top priority of House Speaker John Boehner. It's the only program that uses federal tax dollars to subsidize private-school tuition.

The program was established in 2004, and began to be phased out in 2009. The House passed a bill in late March that would reauthorize the program for five more years.

Boehner says the program is not controversial, but is "the American way."

Mayor Vince Gray and Norton oppose the school voucher program, but other city leaders, including Council Chairman Kwame Brown, support it.

The Washington Post reports that another D.C.-related provision remains unresolved, a House-passed ban on the city spending money for needle exchange programs. District leaders strongly oppose that ban, but congressional Republicans support it.



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Saturday, April 9, 2011 6:41 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Go figure. So much for the party of "small government" and staying out of the way and letting local governments regulate themselves...



"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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