Kansas City Government Shutdown Blame Game: Who P0wz It?!?

There's a compromise here . . .

We can all blame illegals, deport them and then invariably welcome them back . . . There's no use straying from a U.S. tradition that's more than a century old.

However . . .

The debate is important, again, because we're talking about this town's biggest employer. 

Meanwhile . . .

Here's one facet of the local discussion . . . Check-it: 

While benefits such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and VA payments will continue, military members, TSA agents, and thousands of IRS employees are now required to work without pay. Kansas City is home to more than 6,000 IRS workers, and union leaders say many have been watching Washington anxiously as their livelihoods hang in the balance.

“Employees are frustrated. First of all, let’s just get that out there. It makes us angry that we are used as pawns in the political games,” said Shannon Ellis, president of NTEU Chapter 66.

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