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onetexan

(13,037 posts)
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 06:15 PM Jan 2019

Dems 2020 messaging must feature front & center the cost of Shutdown to remind all of America

not to mention the
- economic cost of 7.1 BILLION: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/01/25/shutdown-carries-price/2678304002/

- the chaos to the entire nation:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-shutdown-is-causing-real-suffering--and-not-just-to-federal-workers/2019/01/12/bab0e836-15cf-11e9-803c-4ef28312c8b9_story.html?utm_term=.f026917ddb9f

- and the PAIN & SUFFERING to ~1 MILLION federal workers and their families, especially the low income:
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/government-shutdown-wreaks-havoc-in-lives-of-federal-workers-1405502531672

http://time.com/5488566/government-shutdown-federal-workers-furlough-salary/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/19/16907138/government-shutdown-2018


Nancy P & Chuck Schumer are doing a good job expressing the message. All the candidates and the party as a whole need to be unified in the messaging going forward: this is the horror we endure when we vote for such an incompetent candidate.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/25/chuck_schumer_longest_shutdown_in_history_accomplished_nothing_but_pain_and_suffering.html

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Dems 2020 messaging must feature front & center the cost of Shutdown to remind all of America (Original Post) onetexan Jan 2019 OP
Cost the United States A Quarters Growth. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #1
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