America's Working Poor and People of Color Held Hostage Day 3

The white, male dominated, republican congress is holding America's working poor and people of color hostage, but  let's not talk about it and pretend this whole media enabled government shut down isn't about putting President Obama in his place, and making those who voted for him suffer.

 The partial shutdown of the federal government has entered its third day. More than 800,000 federal workers are furloughed, and numerous governmental programs have been forced to stop running. For example, the government shutdown has already caused as many as 19,000 children to lose access to Head Start. Many recipients of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, will lose assistance.

Our Congress Critters try to get the poop off their shoes by claiming they are not going to accept (key word) their pay check(s) as long as the government is shut down.  They must think we are stoopid.  How are we going to know if they accept (key word) their pay check(s) or not?  How are we going to know if they deposit their check(s) in the bank or not?  And even if they don't accept (key word) their check(s), it's not going to hurt them one bit.

Mo Brooks, the incoming congressman from north Alabama's 5th District, filed in May and listed a $229,000 salary last year from his Huntsville law firm of Leo and Brooks. As a Madison County commissioner, he also was paid $63,617. He did not disclose his spouse's salary with Huntsville city schools.
He and his wife jointly own accounts worth between $100,000 and $250,000 with the Redstone Federal Credit Union, plus multiple bond and stock accounts, most of them valued at between $1,000 and $15,000. He and has wife each also have several IRAs, and he did not list any liabilities.
Brooks' filing said compensation he received in excess of $5,000 from any one source is confidential because of a privileged relationship, so he did not disclose his legal clients.

Black Agenda Report's Glenn Ford calls it the Shut Down Game.

The government shutdown battle is more like a Civil War reenactment than the real thing. A face-saving bargain will soon be struck, returning 825,000 furloughed federal employees to their jobs at wages that have been frozen for the past two years – not by the Republicans, but on President Obama’s orders. The clock has been stuck with both hands on “austerity” since Obama came fully out of the closet as a GOP fellow-traveler following the 2010 midterm elections. From that moment on, Republican-imposed gridlock has been the only barrier to Obama’s long-sought Grand Bargain to eviscerate entitlement programs. When the current theatrics are over, Obamacare will remain intact and the president will be back on his ever-rightward stride. The GOP will take Obama up on his offer, earlier this year, to cut Social Security and will probably be offered other bits and pieces of the social safety net in the interest of “shared sacrifice” and domestic peace.

 Either way, We the Little People are screwed.

Ever since Barack Obama appeared onstage in Chicago's Grant Park on Nov. 4, 2008, to claim his place as president-elect, many Americans, including a majority of current House Republicans, have fixated on his political destruction at the expense of their own basic functionality.