United States Federal Government Shut-Down

NPR says it has shut down 18 times since 1975

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpoli.../8-things-to-know-about-a-government-shutdown


But of course the news media wants to paint up this situation like an end-of-the-world scenario. Go figure.

 

in Canada we call it "prorogued"

i think we might even be in prorogue right now...i dont really pay much attention to those idiots

 

Allegedly the shut down will cost at least $2 billion.

This is stupid. I think all of this may blow up in the tea party's face.

 

Yes, the last being 17 years ago.

 

I worked and lived in both Yellowstone and Grand Canyon for extended periods of time (almost a year at the Canyon). I have a lot of good friends that are gonna get fucked. It's sad because quite a few of these people have nowhere else to go. No family, nothing. It's their life.

 

No she didn't.

 

I LOVE THE SHUTDOWN!!!!!!!! What part of non-essential don't they get?

 

^ what part of multi-billion dollar economic loses don't you get?

Hooray, the NIH is shut down! Think of all that wasteful, so-called "medical research" that won't get done now! Hooray, think of all the environmental protections that we won't get!

Boy, if only knew that hyper-partisanship and subverting the democratic process were going to be this much fun, we would have started sooner!

 

Subverting the democratic process? What we are seeing is that process in action.

 

Last time the repubs shut it down--they rightfully got the blame and Goot Ningrich lost his job. Let's face it---this government and the rip-off capitalist bullshit is NOT WORKING. After 200 years--it's not working.

 

I see these as bullshit procedural manoeuvres that are technically legal but were never intended to be part of how congress works.

 

Agreed. After almost 240 years the system is starting to fall apart. Change is needed. What change? Well, that is going to be a tough and, probably, painful thing to figure out.

 

Oh really? Consider Paul and Cruz to be modern day Reveres , asking us , the constituency , to step back , think and consider , the threat of despotic rule. Mandatory government edicts , a government turning on it's citizens , foreign invaders being forced upon the citizenry. Yes , time to step back. Is this stil your country? King George is alive and well.

 

So when will you be picking up a rifle?

 

It will get back going again soon. Yeah people are gonna miss some work days and miss pay periods. Yeah some things will go on pause. However this is part of the economic cycle. Shit happens

 

This shutdown could be a long one. The Tea Party seems content to wait as long as it takes for Obama to totally cave in and give them 100% of what they want. He's never going to do that. There's no way in hell he will let the history books say that the first black US president was the first one to become a spineless puppet of the opposition party. Can you imagine what all the hardcore racists would do with that?

A small minority of voters has sent representatives to the House who have no idea what it takes to run a country, and all of us are going to suffer the consequences.

This is just the warm-up act for the deficit ceiling debate. The end result could be a world-wide economic depression.

 

Jefferson reminds us: "From time to time , the garden of government needs to be weeded" That time arrived last November.

If this brief check and balance on a tyrannical ruler riles you , just wait until QE has ended ; the financial devastation from the oby years will be stunning.

LOL. Sadly, oby has proven the racists to be correct. From the VLAD PUTIN experience to constant strife and scandal ; barry has proved to be either learning disabled or one evil bastard. Don't know which yet. One thing sadly evident ; the Constitution has been raped by the nation's first mixed race president.

 

Funny how one side always thinks that about the other side in any debate when it comes to politics and leadership. "The Tea Party doesn't know what they are doing" "The Dems have no idea what they are doing" "The Cons have no idea what they are doing" and on and on and on, ad nauseum.

Note, I am not nor have I have I ever been a fan of the Tea Party. I just think rhetoric like this, from any side, is tired and pointless.

That debate is going to be the real kicker, I agree. Still, a melt down is coming no matter what we do. We've been putting band aids on a sucking chest wound for too long.

 

Where did Jefferson say that?