...lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down.Time to shrink the state.
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Due to the lack of funding, many federal agencies are now operating more effectively from the top down on a fraction of their workforce, with only select essential personnel serving national security tasks. One might think this is how government should function...
Furloughed employees should find other work, never return and not be paid.
Speaking My Language
A senior official writes with advice to the President on the shutdown:
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Not gonna happen. But it's a nice wish.
So long as he doesn't end up like JFK.
The problems I have with this Daily Caller thing are the same two I have with a similarly anonymous op-ed the NYT published a bit ago by someone it pretended was a senior White House official: how do we know this official actually exists and wrote this piece, rather than it being a made-up thing? And, if this person does exist and did actually write the piece, how can he be taken seriously, as cowardly as he is, hiding behind anonymity?
Eric Hines
I'm with Eric. Once upon a time the words "anonymous source" meant that your article was not worth the page it was written on. A source was named, or it didn't go to print. For us to trust an "anonymous source" we must take the reporter's word that the source is actually someone who has the information being reported. I don't know a single one of these reporters personally, and their industry has given me no indication of trustworthiness such that I can extend that benefit of the doubt to them.
MikeD has the right of it. Used to be, if anonymous sources were used, there had to be two on-the-record sources to corroborate the anonymous ones' (or one's) claims.
The NLMSM has yet to explain why it has chosen to walk away from this standard of integrity.
Eric Hines
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