Democrats SUCK!!

[Henry Hawk]

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

Is THAT how you guage intelligence?     I am pretty certain, I don't have the money you have, but I am a extremly content and fulfilled with my life.

[Henry Hawk]

Listening to Obama speak about the "Gov Shut-down"....How can anybody think that he is NOT  liar, deceivor and manipulator....

[Exterminator]

Is THAT how you guage intelligence?

Not only that...whether or not someone can correctly conjugate the verb, "to be," or spell, "gauge," factors into it as well.

[me]

Why was this shut down?

'Greatest generation' veterans sweep past barricades at memorial in their honor
By Edmund DeMarchePublished October 01, 2013FoxNews.com


Metal gates could be seen outside the WII Memorial on the National Mall. (CONGRESSMAN STEVEN PALAZZO' OFFICE)
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What was meant to be a final gathering of heroes Tuesday instead became a final victory for dozens of World War II combat vets who refused to let the government's budget battle block a visit to their memorial in the nation's capital.

With bagpipers playing "Amazing Grace," nearly 200 veterans from Mississippi and Iowa swept past barricades and security guards at the World War II Memorial in Washington in order to keep a commitment to visit the site, which was closed today due to the partial government shutdown. The veterans, in their 80s and 90s, were accompanied by Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., a former Marine who earlier vowed not to let the National Park Police keep them from a planned visit to the open-air monument.

"Well, I would have been so down-and-out if I got all the way up here and wasn't able to get in," Navy veteran Oscar Leroy Russell, 90, who is blind after he suffered a stroke, told FoxNews.com.   

"I'm not going to enforce the 'no stopping or standing' sign for a group of 90 World War II veterans. I'm a veteran myself."
- U.S. Park Police officer

Some veterans on hand wiped away tears when they saw a crowd waving the American flag as they came out of their bus.

"These men and women didn't cower to the Japanese and Germans," Palazzo said. "I don't think they're about to let a few National Park Police stand in their way."

Palazzo, who was joined by several other members of Congress, moved the barricades at the memorial and police did not try to stop the veterans' access.

"I'm not going to enforce the 'no stopping or standing' sign for a group of 90 World War II veterans," a U.S. Park Police officer, who declined to give his name, told The Washington Post. "I'm a veteran myself."

The veterans are traveling as part of Honor Flight, a program that enables World War II veterans to partake in an expense-paid trip to view the memorial. Tuesday's trip is the second-to-last flight, with the last scheduled for November. But prior to their arrival early Tuesday, there was fear that the government shutdown and federal worker furloughs would mean no access to the monuments on the National Mall.

But with lawmakers leading the charge, the American military heroes, some in wheelchairs, surged into the memorial.

"It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission," Palazzo said. "We lined the veterans up along the  blockade, we saw an opening and we took it."

Joe Cleveland, of Union, Miss., told The Mississippi Press that he would "be thinking about the many battles that have been fought and thanking all those who were willing to go fight for our country."

Palazzo noted his grandfather, Manuel McCarty, served in World War II at Guadalcanal and Okinawa. Palazzo was 7 years old when his grandfather died and said he sees his grandfather in these veterans.

"I only have a couple of memories of my grandfather," said Palazzo, who has taken part of Honor Flights before. "But each time I see these men, I envision how he'd be."

Congressman Bill Huizenga, of Michigan, told GulfLive.com that "this is the best civil disobedience we've seen in Washington in a while."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/01/greatest-generation-veterans-to-face-barricades-at-memorial-in-their-honor/

Introduction
   
     
The National World War II Memorial was funded almost entirely by private contributions, as specified in Public Law 103-32. The campaign received more than $197 million in cash and pledges. Support came from hundreds of thousands of individual Americans, hundreds of corporations and foundations, veterans groups, dozens of civic, fraternal and professional organizations, states and one territory, and students in 1,200 schools across the country.

Donated and pledged funds were used to cover the total project costs of approximately $182 million. These costs include site selection and design, construction and sculpture, a National Park Service maintenance fee required by the Commemorative Works Act, groundbreaking and dedication ceremonies, fund raising, and the 11-year administrative costs of the project from its inception in 1993 through completion in 2004.

Remaining funds are held on deposit with the U.S. Treasury in a National WWII Memorial Trust Fund. The funds will be used by the American Battle Monuments Commission solely to benefit the World War II Memorial.

http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=funding.asp&subpage=intro

[Exterminator]

Why was this shut down?

Because the tea-billies shut down the government.

[me]

Because the tea-billies shut down the government.

Has nothing to do with something that's privately funded.  Did you miss that part? 

[Locutus]

Has nothing to do with something that's privately funded.  Did you miss that part? 

It's maintained by the National Park Service just like all of the rest of the monuments and memorials on the National Mall. 

[me]

It's maintained by the National Park Service just like all of the rest of the monuments and memorials on the National Mall.

It is not paid for by the government and did not need to be shut down. 

The National World War II Memorial was funded almost entirely by private contributions, as specified in Public Law 103-32. The campaign received more than $197 million in cash and pledges. Support came from hundreds of thousands of individual Americans, hundreds of corporations and foundations, veterans groups, dozens of civic, fraternal and professional organizations, states and one territory, and students in 1,200 schools across the country.

Donated and pledged funds were used to cover the total project costs of approximately $182 million. These costs include site selection and design, construction and sculpture, a National Park Service maintenance fee required by the Commemorative Works Act, groundbreaking and dedication ceremonies, fund raising, and the 11-year administrative costs of the project from its inception in 1993 through completion in 2004.

Remaining funds are held on deposit with the U.S. Treasury in a National WWII Memorial Trust Fund. The funds will be used by the American Battle Monuments Commission solely to benefit the World War II Memorial.

They pay a maintenance fee TO the government the government pays nothing.  It is not the same as a National Park where the government pays people to staff it.

[Exterminator]

Has nothing to do with something that's privately funded.  Did you miss that part?

It is in a National Park; did you miss that part?

[Locutus]

It is in a National Park; did you miss that part?

Why try?  She's clueless.

[Exterminator]

Why try?  She's clueless.

When I was in DC two years ago, the reflecting pool was all torn up.  Damn that Obama!   

[me]

It is in a National Park; did you miss that part?

It is not a park it is a monument and the monument was closed off, you could still get on the grounds.  It is also NOT something that COSTS the government it is something for which they are PAID with private funds to maintain.  There was no reason to close it.

[Exterminator]

Why try?  She's clueless.

Yep, you're right.

[Locutus]

It is not a park it is a monument and the monument was closed off, you could still get on the grounds.  It is also NOT something that COSTS the government it is something for which they are PAID with private funds to maintain.  There was no reason to close it.

Can't you read?  -----v  What part of that is unclear?

It's maintained by the National Park Service just like all of the rest of the monuments and memorials on the National Mall. 

[Henry Hawk]

Because the tea-billies shut down the government.

Again, this COULD have been avoided if our potus would act like a leader instead of an egotistical maniac.  The law has flaws...lets fix'em, before this get too deep.