Okay, so let's get the mainstream media analysis of the looming
shutdown out of the way first. The House Republicans are led by a
moderate weakling (Boehner) who is being held hostage by a gaggle of Tea
Party crazies determined to destroy a humanitarian law known as
Obamacare that is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rescue us from disease,
poverty, global warming and Robin Thicke. Obama (Father of the Nation
and possibly Jesus, but he's too humble to admit it) and the lions of
the Senate are standing their ground. And so the Federal Government
faces catastrophe because a GOP alliance of cowards and loons won't see
reason and bend to the public will as represented by the glorious
Democrats. Prepare yourself for society to collapse as museum workers
don't turn up for work in the morning…
The reality is that this crisis has been caused by two things: a) overspending and b) the Constitution of the United States. On the overspend, the US has reached this point of crisis because it has failed to curtail spending effectively – and it has failed to do that because Democrats have consistently refused to make genuinely tough choices (the dreaded sequester was, itself, a plan to delay making a plan that has now started catching up with the President who called for a sequester in the first place). I could recite all those big debt numbers that run into hundreds of zeroes but for a simpler sense of the madness consider the spending spree that has been going on in just the past few days.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100238836/us-government-shutdown-dont-blame-the-republicans-blame-whoever-spent-all-the-money/
The reality is that this crisis has been caused by two things: a) overspending and b) the Constitution of the United States. On the overspend, the US has reached this point of crisis because it has failed to curtail spending effectively – and it has failed to do that because Democrats have consistently refused to make genuinely tough choices (the dreaded sequester was, itself, a plan to delay making a plan that has now started catching up with the President who called for a sequester in the first place). I could recite all those big debt numbers that run into hundreds of zeroes but for a simpler sense of the madness consider the spending spree that has been going on in just the past few days.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100238836/us-government-shutdown-dont-blame-the-republicans-blame-whoever-spent-all-the-money/
1 comment:
Shame on the House of Representatives for being so against the Affordable Healthcare Act. Its done so get over it many people will benefit from this. You act worse than a bunch of children. Now you want to punish the US Govt by being difficult and allowing for the shut down to happen. Think of the many people that will be affected by this, not only will it be the employees and their families but people who rely on the financial services.
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