RUSH EXCERPT:
JONES: “Listen, after some backlash, the coast guard took this tip sheet off their website. But they had something up there where they were recommending that unpaid service members have stuff like this, have garage sales, baby sit, walk dogs, house sit, or become mystery shoppers during the shutdown. I’m not making this stuff up. And as a result of this, everybody, all of us, are in danger. More unpaid TSA workers calling out sick could cause delays of your flight. It could also impact security. They actually had to close a terminal early at the airport in Miami this weekend. Also, if you like to eat food, your food may be less safe, because the fda is not able to do the routine inspections of domestic food processing facilities. Also, the FBI, the association there said that operations are being hindered — I don’t know what that means, it sounds scary — that’s not good. And if this goes on for more months, food stump fanding could dry up. And the people that are living in federally subsidized housing could be thrown out of their homes. All of this for a wall that hardly anybody wants! Mr. President, you ran on the wall in 2016. Guess what item even though you won the election, you lost the popular vote. It’s not a popular idea, okay? The midterm election, tried to scare everybody about the caravan and he got smacked down with the blue wave. The polls show Americans don’t want this wall and they never did. So we need to reopen government and you need new talking point. So here’s some. How about this. Health care. You’ve got 27 million Americans still don’t have insurance. Millions more are paying way too much for prescription drugs. That’s a real crisis. Why don’t you fix that? Or opioids. You’ve got 70,000 Americans died in 2017. That’s a record. It’s a bad record. This wall is not going to stop that. That’s a real crisis. Let’s get together and physical examination it. The climate crisis. Carbon dioxide emissions, up 3.4% in 2018, biggest jump in eight years. Why don’t you tweet about that. Infrastructure. Bridges falling down, roads and sewers not working. Nobody’s doing anything about it. Fix that. See, you don’t have to make up a phony crisis when you can fix some of the real ones. And I bet a lot of people would help you if you tried. And that’s why I am happy to see the Democrats in Congress trying to keep this administration in check. And I love the ones who are throwing their names in the hat for 2020, to make America better.”