Shut Down

[buckshotbarlow]

Posted in another thread but posting again for effect

Are you talking about my wife also???

[RblDiver]

edit, Popped on over to Economist and what is on the top of the front page?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democ...13/10/shutdown
[B]That is UK press saying the message battle is lost.

Seeing as how The Economist is very left-wing, this isn't surprising.

(Hell, they once advocated getting rid of the House of Lords for a very dumb reason. They were arguing that people whose specialties were in, for example (since I can't remember specifics) the military shouldn't be making health care decisions. I wanted to yell at them, "So, rather than have a body with a diverse skillset, it's better to have a body whose only skill is politics?")

[TFOGGER]

I have an idea to encourage the politicians in DC to get off their dead asses and do their jobs: Not only do they not get paid during the "shutdown", but all of their benefits are suspended for the duration (Travel, security, staff, etcetera), and all of their assets are frozen, period. The can lodge in a dormitory at Annapolis, eat in the chow hall, ride a bus to the Capitol, period. If I didn't do my job for 3 f**king years, that's be more than I got. Alternatively, they could be fined for all salaries and benefits they accrued in those 3 years. They need to figure out that they cannot continue to spend 30% more than the government takes in in taxes indefinitely. Sooner rather than later, there needs to be deep spending cuts, along with responsible oversight to ensure that the Government gets good value for the money it spends.

[RMAC757]

If interest rates on government borrowing goes up, the amount of money left for the federal government to operate goes down. When the FedRes stops buying debt, that interest rate will go up. Depending on how much the rate goes up, there may not be enough money to pay any federal employees.

At that point, there won't be any money left to pay for anything but the debt that We the People have accrued.

The funding of the ACA and the debt ceiling are small beans compared to the future we face.

Be safe.

Bingo

[RblDiver]

I guess Harry Reid hates kids. They passed a bill to support paying the troops during the "shutdown," but he won't do the same to support childrens' cancer clinical trials by the NIH. When asked if he would support it, he said "Why would we want to do that?" http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/0...s-with-cancer/

[TennVol]

Two thirds of my division was furloughed - including both of my bosses. At least I have a sweet parking spot close to the N-NC building (while I'm not getting paid....)

[CO Hugh]

Fuck them all, shut the some bitch down, fire them all and we can start over with a few motherfuckers that know what's going on.

I volunteer to be in charge of foreign affairs, or the new dept of "lack of foreign problems" as it would be known after about 20 minutes.

I want that job. American foreign policy, you screw with us and we play cowboys and injuns with you as the injuns!!

[RonMexico]

Just found out this shutdown is finally going impact my life personally. Luckily I am use to the hurry up and wait lifestyle but it's horrible timing on my career

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Seeing as how The Economist is very left-wing, this isn't surprising.

(Hell, they once advocated getting rid of the House of Lords for a very dumb reason. They were arguing that people whose specialties were in, for example (since I can't remember specifics) the military shouldn't be making health care decisions. I wanted to yell at them, "So, rather than have a body with a diverse skillset, it's better to have a body whose only skill is politics?")

Feels like it didn't used to be nearly so bad a decade or 15 years back, but I agree.
For that sort of thing, WSJ only for me.

[RblDiver]

Feels like it didn't used to be nearly so bad a decade or 15 years back, but I agree.

Heh, well I haven't a clue about that, I've only been reading for 2 years or so :P