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Originally Posted by Robbie
Everybody is happy now that it's back to "Business As Usual" and the federal govt. will keep on borrowing and driving up the debt.
Boy...when interest rates go back up and the country collapses, everyone will wonder what happened.
Well, what happened is that the govt. is running unchecked.
It was only 17% of the total govt. that was "shut down" anyway. But boy, the media and the ruling party sure made a big stink about it.
A "gun to the head".
So what were the Dems doing to Richard Nixon in the 1970's when they demanded campaign finance reform in order to raise the debt ceiling?
Oh yeah...it never went this far because Nixon immediately negotiated a deal with them.
But the real thing that you should all be pissed about is the fact that the Senate hasn't passed a budget in years now. There would be no "govt. shutdown" if they would.
The "CR" is a "Continuing Resolution" that they keep passing every few months in lieu of a budget.
It's just amazing that the real problem isn't being talked about. Just nonsense about Cruz and rhetoric like "Gun to the head"
What a bunch of ignorant sheep that we are to keep falling for this over and over and over
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Pretty much since the republicans took back the house in 2010 there has not been a budget passed. It is going to be that way, likely until 2016 unless the democrats take back the house in 2014.
What's worse is that this has set us on a course of continuing to do this. Whichever party is in the minority now knows how to work the system. If the republicans manage to win the white house in 2016 you can count on the democrats returning the budgetary favor.
We have headed down a potentially long and ugly road.