

Anybody else hopes that the U.S. government shuts down?
#1
Posted 18 September 2013 - 06:03 PM
But I hope that if the Tea Partiers in the House want to kick and scream and hold their breath until they turn blue, that this time no one will give in.
I have no idea what purpose this dysfunctional government serves anyway--other than drama. I have never seen a stupider bunch of crackpots in elected office--and that's saying a lot since lord knows we've elected some doozies over the years, both parties, but the GOP has become the Know Nothings of the 21st century. Even poor Boehner seems baffled by the ill-informed fanatics Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have cultivated for the party over the years.
And that Obama has negotiated with them time and time again baffles me. What has he gained politically for these endless, silly waltzes around raising the debt ceiling? Certainly not respect. Worse, when you negotiate with crazy people, you legitimize their point of view. And appeasing a bunch of people who think science is the devil and facts in general aren't facts unless Rush, FoxNews pundits and other right-wing alternatives to the "lamestream media" say so is not doing the country a lot of good.
Anyway...I hope no one blinks this time and the government shuts down.
Maybe then we-the-people will consider the need to elect rational people next time around.....Nah, won't happen.
"Although health care enrollment is actually going pretty well at this point, thousands and maybe millions of Americans have failed to sign up for coverage because they believe the false horror stories they keep hearing." -- Paul Krugman
#3
Posted 18 September 2013 - 10:10 PM
All I have to show for it is a massive headache for thinking so hard and coming up with nothing. So for that reason alone, I hope their asses shut down.
#4
Posted 18 September 2013 - 10:40 PM
#5
Posted 18 September 2013 - 10:44 PM
Spectacles, on 18 September 2013 - 06:03 PM, said:
Edited by CJ AEGIS, 18 September 2013 - 10:50 PM.
-Fleet Admiral Nimitz
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- Ernie Pyle: Aboard a DE
#6
Posted 19 September 2013 - 05:34 AM
how long the shutdown is I could lose more than pay. Year after year they use this club over the heads
of people who really have no say so over a damned thing and I am tired of the bullying tactics.
Another Democrat leaning Independent that has to search for truth because it can't be found on Fox News OR MSNBC.
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#7
Posted 19 September 2013 - 10:09 AM





The once and future Nonny
"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world." Can anyone tell me who I am quoting? I found this with no attribution.
Fatal miscarriages are forever.
Stupid is stupid, this I believe. And ignorance is the worst kind of stupid, since ignorance is a choice. Suzanne Brockmann
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#8
Posted 19 September 2013 - 10:26 AM
#9
Posted 19 September 2013 - 11:16 AM
hmmm... maybe if all their assets (bank accounts, stocks, only get to have groceries on hand, down to one car and the gas it holds, etc...) were frozen while the government was shut down. Then I'd be for it, 100%.
FarscapeOne, on 19 September 2013 - 10:26 AM, said:
There's probably plenty of that, just no chocolate.

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#10
Posted 23 September 2013 - 05:14 PM
I'm not sure if she was permitted to leave her hotel room during scheduled hours, as she could've been called back into the conference they were attending at any point, but I assume they'd already paid for her flight home, so she could've still done that if she hadn't been recalled by the end of the conference...
Fortunately the freeze didn't last that long.


Edited by Jim Gamma, 24 September 2013 - 12:23 PM.
#11
Posted 27 September 2013 - 08:02 AM

"Although health care enrollment is actually going pretty well at this point, thousands and maybe millions of Americans have failed to sign up for coverage because they believe the false horror stories they keep hearing." -- Paul Krugman
#12
Posted 27 September 2013 - 02:50 PM
sure the congressman who is also a millionaire parner in a corp law firm, and maybe divorce or 'I am the wronged party' attorney, class action lawsuit types, can afford to dip into savings and keep the home and fam going... but what about the Gs13 who making a salary, what are they, maybe 73 000 somthing whichever, and the wife lost her job in a firm reshuffle with overextending, you know how those corps do, so the fam have the mortgage in 'suburb glen ferns' or what have you, and the kids college funds have been infused because hey the oldest kid is now 16, and the memberships and the insurances, so the savings are not exactly much this year, and now how do they keep the payments of everything up?
ps,
i like to get my us news, someone taught me years ago to do this, from outside us, sources... uk are watching this thing closely, not only coz they have tons O resident foreign corrs, but also, intrinsically connected to USA acts and trends.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-24306933
Edited by offworlder, 27 September 2013 - 05:16 PM.
#13
Posted 27 September 2013 - 04:35 PM
Read this. It's short and kinda funny but not really:
http://nymag.com/dai...thing-ever.html
But the GOP has a problem. And since they're one of two political parties running the country, so do the rest of us.
"Although health care enrollment is actually going pretty well at this point, thousands and maybe millions of Americans have failed to sign up for coverage because they believe the false horror stories they keep hearing." -- Paul Krugman
#14
Posted 28 September 2013 - 06:17 PM
Someone told me the 90s were back last week. Now I believe it.
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#15
Posted 28 September 2013 - 06:43 PM


The once and future Nonny
"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world." Can anyone tell me who I am quoting? I found this with no attribution.
Fatal miscarriages are forever.
Stupid is stupid, this I believe. And ignorance is the worst kind of stupid, since ignorance is a choice. Suzanne Brockmann
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings. Diderot
#16
Posted 28 September 2013 - 06:54 PM
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#17
Posted 28 September 2013 - 07:15 PM
Edited by FarscapeOne, 28 September 2013 - 07:16 PM.
#18
Posted 29 September 2013 - 06:06 AM
"Although health care enrollment is actually going pretty well at this point, thousands and maybe millions of Americans have failed to sign up for coverage because they believe the false horror stories they keep hearing." -- Paul Krugman
#19
Posted 29 September 2013 - 07:22 AM
http://nymag.com/new...re-plot-2013-9/
"Although health care enrollment is actually going pretty well at this point, thousands and maybe millions of Americans have failed to sign up for coverage because they believe the false horror stories they keep hearing." -- Paul Krugman
#20
Posted 29 September 2013 - 08:59 AM
My personal experience comes from the last time the GOP had a fit of the stupids and shut down the government. For the first one, I was on sick leave following major surgery in the weeks prior to the shutdown. I was told that in order to have any chance of being paid for those shutdown days, I had to be in 'work status', not on leave of any type. So I had to come off sick leave early and be at work with bandages still in place in order to protect my income. For the second time, I had been working with a contractor, organizing several thousands of dollars worth of property improvements. While we could have elected to pay for this from savings, the uncertainties of how long the shutdown would last and whether or not we would be paid for the time caused us to delay the work for many weeks. We were impacted and we passed that impact down the line to the small business contractor.
*star*, who becomes more and more liberal as she ages
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