The Shutdown Is Over-Rated

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  1. FearandLoathing

    FearandLoathing Well-Known Member

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    What shut down?

    Obama has you buying into his rhetoric so deeply that you seem to miss the point.

    The government is still operating, Obama is still getting HIS paycheck, along with his cabinet, he's still waging war on two continents and spending faster than a drunken sailor with an hour's leave..

    The government is not shut down. Some aspects of the government have incurred staff shortages and furloughs, but the government is 99% operational.

    The mindless Obama hordes are calling it a "shut down" to panic the public.
     
  2. exotix

    exotix New Member Past Donor

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    That's certainly one way to look at it ... another way to look at it is that you're witnessing conservatives commit Seppuku ... and leave you to scoop up the guts ... and then you can blame Obama/Dems/Libs for that too ...

    LOL.
     
  3. Terrapinstation

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    You haven't made a coherent post on this forum yet.
     
  4. FearandLoathing

    FearandLoathing Well-Known Member

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    Oh nice...the one who supports the bureaucratic death of a child in favor of a paying soldiers salaries so they can kill is wading in on whether its a "Shut down" or public relations games.

    Look. You took your stance. You support the psychotic ideas of Obama and Reid no matter what....

    You have no respect for human life and five years down the road are still obsessively terrified of an attractive woman who was a brief moment of fame on the national landscape and can rarely even post without mentioning some variation of tea party.

    To choose the death of a child in what is a tacit form of "death squad" what all the brain dead liberals were whining about in the debate and now you support Harry Reid in saying to save the life of a child would be "reckless and irresponsible"


    We're done with you troll.

    As I posted before, I hope it ain't you kid you have to watch die. I truly do.

    'But then you can take comfort in the fact your messiah "killed bin Laden" and closed Gitmo a promised.

    Please go to a forum where you have an iota of respect. I think anyone who would even countenance what you support is...well I'd get banned for saying it.

    Ignore for you.
     
  5. skeptic-f

    skeptic-f New Member

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    Non-essential means that the work doesn't need to be done in the very near future; not that the work doesn't need to be done at all. Government services will slow or shut down, important files that need dealing with will be significantly delayed and even potential criminal prosecutions (fraud, pollution, etcetera) may be torpedoed.
     
  6. Taxcutter

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    This morning's Federal Register had 649 pages of regulatory activity.

    The shutdown is a sham.
     
  7. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

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    This is also a pathetic display:

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ss-tries-to-get-dc-funding-during-scale-back/
    Budget stalemate threatens bona fide shutdown for District of Columbia
    ...

    I'm mystified that DC can't pay for things like trash pickup without the nation's highest government paying the bills. What a ridiculous setup.

    I see a golden opportunity there for private business to function as it should - dealing directly with customers in need.
     
  8. yellowdog

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    So putting 800,000 former government employees into the private job market will help the 12% who are currently unemployed? I'm confused by your argument.
     
  9. Piscivorous

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    I doubt it. But it makes for great copy.
     
  10. EvilAztec

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    It's really funny entertainment what from Russia we're seeing what into USA going on. You guys made a great show for us .
     
  11. EvilAztec

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    Very strange USA's government announced strange thing that USA's government is in "Shutdown" mode .What does that 'Shutdown" mode is mean ? That Is only that their goverment have majority of men with childish brains .
     
  12. EvilAztec

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    Great USA
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  13. eleison

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    Looks like its time for a "slim down".

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  14. Til the Last Drop

    Til the Last Drop Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You all notice the federal reserve and the IRS aren't shutdown? They aren't even mentioned. Kind of throws a kink in the shills' argument that they're government and not private, doesn't it?
     
  15. onalandline

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    Actually, national defense is one of the federal government's Constitutional obligations. The military should be fully funded.

    - - - Updated - - -

    How is wanting to reduce spending, and bring back Constitutional government an act of terror?
     
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    onalandline Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No need to raise the debt ceiling.
     
  17. EvilAztec

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    Looks like they do it.
     
  18. EvilAztec

    EvilAztec Banned

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    You are Americans very strange people Obamacare is a good thing .And is more strange seeing how tough your government treat to own people.
     
  19. onalandline

    onalandline Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Obamacare is turning out to be a disaster.
     
  20. EvilAztec

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    All these cretins in USA's parlament showing to president a symbolic middle finger , but president of USA Only angrily blew his cheeks. Disneyland
     
  21. EvilAztec

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    That is more better for us russians.Let your obamacare to go on.
     
  22. onalandline

    onalandline Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Easy to say from Socialist Central.
     
  23. Taxcutter

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    The regulatory machine chugs along unimpeded. The Department of Education transfers taxpayer money to teachers' unions every day.

    The shutdown is a sham.
     
  24. EvilAztec

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    More correctly to say That is all Gorbachev's spell .This Gorbachev is yours hog .
     
  25. onalandline

    onalandline Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Наслаждайтесь вашей стране!
     

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