The federal government, as I’m sure you all know by now, was forced to shut down today, over conflicts arising from the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, better know as Obamacare. All government services deemed “non-essential” in accordance with the Antideficiency Act, were suspended, and more than 818,000 federal workers were furloughed, meaning that […]
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You say Shutdown. I say Treason.
Posted in Health, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged big government, Bill Clinton, call Congress, compromise, Congress, economic recovery, federal budget, government is never the answer, government shutdown, health care reform, hostage tactics, hostage taking, insanity, Iraq war, John Boehner, Mars, monkey brains, NASA, NASA funding, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, prion disease, Ronald Reagan, sequester, tea party, Ted Cruz 34 Comments
A few more thoughts on the debt ceiling “compromise”
I don’t have a lot of time, as I’ve got a hot date planned, but I wanted to add a few things to the very fruitful discussion we started last night on the subject of the debt ceiling “compromise”. Following are a few of the more insightful quotes that I found on the subject this […]
Posted in Economics, Other, Politics Also tagged debt ceiling, Jim Kunstler, Matt Taibbi, national debt, Obama, Robert Reich, Russ Feingold 99 Comments