tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068633250101025716.post6836079956983749002..comments2023-09-29T11:23:38.668+02:00Comments on For what we are... they will be: USA: government shutdown (and "emergency" rumors)Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068633250101025716.post-44648132522701234052013-10-03T03:07:25.257+02:002013-10-03T03:07:25.257+02:00Thanks for the explanation, Andrew. Here if the bu...Thanks for the explanation, Andrew. Here if the budget is not passed in certain term, the previous one is automatically extended. I believe that such thing happened in the USA last year or a few years ago, right? But I'm unsure and maybe I am mixing concepts or something. <br /><br />As for the FEMA activity, I really hope is just one of those unfounded speculations but it sounds strange enough for me to mention it for people to ponder. <br /><br />... "is absurd"...<br /><br />Sounds indeed absurd but who knows. Something I considered as possibility was that they might be planning some sort of military intervention in Venezuela or something. But when I realized that the coffins were being distributed also to continental USA, I discarded it. <br /><br />Let's just say: it looks strange but we have no idea nor any specific clue to give credit to the speculations. Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068633250101025716.post-86603594152756779292013-10-02T20:41:01.786+02:002013-10-02T20:41:01.786+02:00All appropriations for federal government spending...All appropriations for federal government spending must be approved in advance by Congress, and only a handful of constitutionally authorized contracts (e.g. naval shipbuilding contracts) are allowed to extend for more than two years at a time. Some agencies (e.g. the U.S. Postal Service) are not completely beholden to Congressional appropriations since they have user's fees to finance them, or are automatic expenditures set by formula (e.g. Social Security pension payments) although the employees who process those payments must be paid with appropriated funds. Some employees in "essential functions" work without pay in the hope that they will be retroactively compensated when a deadlock ends (e.g. prison guards who provide food, shelter and security to federal prison inmates, and active duty military soldiers who rely on federal government spending for room and board). Also, all such bills must original in the House of Representatives (controlled by Republicans) and ultimately receive approval from the House, the Senate and the President before them become law.<br /><br />Any FEMA activity in Puerto Rico is likely just a product of hurricane season. The odds of a FEMA engineered take over of the Mid-Atlantic states and vicinity driven by a government shutdown is absurd (not least of which because it doesn't have funding during the shutdown either).Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.com