Jokeblue wrote:You fool. You've doomed the Spam thread to yet another, inevitable :3 spam.
JSynth wrote:Well, I know who I'm not voting for next year.
All of them.
I'm so sick of the US government right now. The more and more you look into what they do, the worse and worse it gets. I'm getting to the point now where I'm debating leaving the country. The only thing that is holding me back is school.
JSynth wrote:Well, I know who I'm not voting for next year.
Magnitude Zero wrote:This is the problem with what is essentially a two-party system: republicans want to cut funding to Obamacare because democrats want the funding, democrats want the funding because republicans want to cut it.
ClaviSound wrote:better get their asses in gear and start compromising if they don't want the country to fall to shambles around them.
Blame party polarization. Members of Congress seem to have gotten it into their heads that there's only one way to skin a cat: their way.
Representative Paul Broun (R., Ga.) agrees, and says Boehner risks an internal rebellion if he decides to broker a compromise. “America is going to be destroyed by Obamacare, so whatever deal is put together must at least reschedule the implementation of Obamacare,” he says. “This law is going to destroy America and everything in America, and we need to stop it.”
MYCUTIEMARKISAGUN wrote:See, I think some of ya'll are under the impression that "both sides are to blame", as opposed to like.....ya know......the ugly truth............about American Conservatism being in a ideological death spiral that is hermetically sealed in a Fox News/Drudge Report information bubble
Freewave wrote:It's frustrating but ragequitting on a whole country i dont think is not the answer. I mean what other country is going to just take you in as a citizen and is going to be better? Biggest problem is when you have 50 different states with different political and social ideologies. Half the country doesn't share your views and in my case nearly 49% of my state doesn't either. We're all constantly upset at each other because we have little to agree on in how to get anything done. No compromises for the greater good at all.
FLAOFEI wrote:You should vote for Vermin Supreme instead of not voting. That way you both support ponies for everybody, and you show how much of a joke you think the government is. If I where American I probably would.
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House Speaker Boehner wrote:"What we want to do is offer the president today the ability to move a temporary increase in the debt ceiling.... good-faith effort on our part to move halfway to what he’s demanded in order to have these conversations begin."
Senate Majority Leader Reid wrote:The shutdown must end and the debt ceiling must be raised ahead of negotiations with the Republicans, who keep changing their demands.
caprix snare wrote:wow that ended way less bloody than expected :) good job america you solved some serious issues in only like a week.
itroitnyah wrote:It was closer to a month than a week, I think.
Nine Volt wrote:
The comment section is a goddamn war zone.
Should be expected though, from a political article.
Jokeblue wrote:You fool. You've doomed the Spam thread to yet another, inevitable :3 spam.
caprix snare wrote:the republicans are about to slaughter the tea parties.
ganondox wrote:I don't get why the government has this idiotic policy instead of, I don't know, just sticking with the previous budget incase of indecision. Makes a lot more sense than going into zero budget.
ph00tbag wrote:The moral of the story: gerrymandering will eventually bite you in the ass, as you will have empowered the extremists of your own party to shout louder than you can.ganondox wrote:I don't get why the government has this idiotic policy instead of, I don't know, just sticking with the previous budget incase of indecision. Makes a lot more sense than going into zero budget.
That could easily be disastrous. A budget is basically an attempt to line up expected income and expected expenses. There are expenses that are expected in FY2014 that weren't there in FY2013. Failing to account for those means they don't get their money. Reusing last years budget is about as poorly thought out as not having a budget at all.
Kyoga wrote:Still kind of upset that we decided we'd shut down our government before we even thought about cutting a good portion of our military.
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