'Give up your pay! Give up your healthcare, give up your benefits, if this is so important to you!'

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from Leslie Salzillo at Daily Kos:



Barbara Boxer Knocks It Out Of The F*cking Park With GOP Hypocrisy, Irresponsibility & Obama Hatred

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) minced no words on Tuesday in talking to and about Republicans...In the beginning of her speech, Boxer states:

We all know Republicans won in huge numbers in the 2014 election, and they took over the United States Senate and they run it. They run it. Or at least they're trying to run it. And let's be clear, less than eight weeks after they took over the Senate, we are facing a shutdown; a shutdown of the very agency that protects the health, the safety, the lives, of the American people - the Department of Homeland Security.

They're shutting down the program that funds our police officers back home, our firefighters, our first responders. Any way you look at it, this is a national disgrace. And think about what our friends abroad, and those who are not our friends, are thinking about this.

Republicans say, 'Oh, we're in danger, we have to go to go to war, put combat troops on the ground!' But they're wiling to shut down the department that protects Americans here in the homeland, from a terrorist attack.

How does it make sense, at a time when we're facing serious threats to our national security, to furlough 30,000, thirty thousand, department of homeland security workers, and to force more than 100,000 frontline homeland security personnel to work without pay?

Why don't theses senators go without their pay?

Give up your pay! Give up your healthcare, give up your benefits, if this is so important to you. Oh, no, they'll collect their pay!

read/watch speech: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/24/1366654/-Barbara-Boxer-Hits-It-Out-Of-The-F-cking-Park-Regarding-Irresponsible-Republicans-The-New-Shutdown

[randys1]

1. Good for her...By the way, this good ole boy respect bullshit each senator has to have forq

the other, that must come to an end

There are people in the Senate trying to kill Americans, not just by not funding this but in HC and food stamps etc

[Politicalboi]

2. Why does DHS have so much funding to police and firefighters?

DHS is just another bureaucracy invented over false flag attacks on us. I guess they root it in so they can't close it FOREVER.

[Triana]

3. FEMA

is under DHS. Maybe from that, they do?

[Fumesucker]

4. Immigration also is under DHS..

[SoapBox]

5. Another Bush and War Criminal Co. invention...

They swept all these agencies into the DHS...it was turned into an even bigger monster, then existed with all the separate departments.

[Triana]

7. FEMA has been f*cked ever since GWB stuck it under DHS

It no longer operates nearly as efficiently as it used to. Case in point: Katrina.

[sarge43]

6. And the Coast Guard. nt

[unionthug777]

8. excellent !!!

[OnionPatch]

9. She's right.

But she's wrong that the Republicans won in huge numbers unless she means numbers of races, not numbers of voters.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. K&R