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1) Will Shut down

2) Less than 30 days amid government employee uprising threat lol

1: The government will shut down.

2: Through April 27th.

Wildcard pick: During this time there will be bank runs.

gutsy call

Not like it'll matter much. Military, medicaid, medicare, welfare, emergency unemployment, and any other "vital service" will all get emergency funding throughout the shutdown. Fox will blame it on our secret communist muslim president and MSNBC will blame it on the wall street loving, wanna kill grandma, greedy ass republicans. It'll make a fun 2 weeks in politard world, but won't have any real consequences.

1: Government "shuts down"

2: It'll last 2 weeks +/- 3 days.

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Someone pointed me to this today re: government shutdown, thought someone here might find it interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing...ument_Syndrome

And . . . Timmy Jeethner just sent a letter to Congress with this exact threat.

lol

The ball is really in the Republicans in the House's court...At this point they need Dem votes to pass a compromise, as in enough tea party type Republicans are of the all or nothing mindset that some Dems will be needed to pass the bill...I always hate how the Democratic party is terrible at brinkmanship, i mean look at what's happening now, Repubs are coming out with another temp CR cutting more $$$ (this one is one week) it wouldn't surprise me if Dems cave again...Imo they should say take it or leave it with the 33 Bil in cuts and make Bohener look ineffective when he can't get his Caucus together to vote on the compromise bill...

It's also worth noting that the 1.7% the GOP wants to cut is completely meaningless. It's pandering to their base pure and simple, and many of them even admit that outright, yet still they're willing to go to the wall and shut down the federal government over it.

What's worse is that the deficit is almost entirely the Republicans' fault, yet now they somehow gain political capital by claiming that they're the only ones serious about fixing it by cutting a mere 1.7% (and only from programs that they hate). No idea how anyone at all buys into this.

We're still blaming everything on Bush?

And his GOP colleagues in Congress and the Senate. Of course we are. They're the ones to blame so why wouldn't we?

As for being serious about fixing the deficit, why no GOP cries to raise taxes a little? I mean if it's such a serious problem and they're oh so serious about fixing it, you'd think they'd at least entertain that idea, no?

I previously thought the government would stay open, now I'm not sure and say maybe 25% chance the government stays open, past this week...

Keep up the partisan hackery. It plays right into their hands.

who cares whether it does/doesn't?

i mean, mail doesn't get delivered a day or two. so?

Hopefully the shutdown will last 3-4 years to really improve the economy. As long as SSI get their checks and military get their checks I see no long term problem of a 20 year shutdown.

i was really rooting for this shutdown but then i realized im trying to go camping this weekend and not having national parks as an option kinda sucks

Please remember that raising the tax rates does NOT necessarily raise tax revenues. (EX: 25% of $100=$25 and 100% of $0=$0)

Just park outside the gate. Walk around the gate, bring bikes and the whole park is yours. It is land and is not going anywhere. BLM, National forests, and national parks could easily turn a profit, if they don't already.

Yea, Bush and the republicans created a $14 trillion deficit. GMAFB. Both parties have been on spending sprees for years, and still will be no matter whose budget is passed. Both are an absolute joke with regards to lowering the deficit.

Bush increased the debt by $4 trillion over 8 years. Obama did the same in 2 years. Quite a difference, and the dems had Congress since 2007 up until this year.

Bush was no fiscal conservative. Of course The O also voted for about 1/3 of that Bush debt too so I'll throw that is in his pile as well.

The White House has already ruled out another CR. I'd be very surprised if this happens.


All kinda of little things that you take for granted stop getting done. Things like road safety, consumer safety, the SEC, CDC, federal research projects, parks, cleanup of toxic sites, federal courts will delay hearing some cases, tax returns don't get sent out, loans for small businesses and homeowners get delayed, etc.

Those sound like the most reasonable things to cut during any sort of budget-related crisis, the real big-spending projects like patching potholes.

Except Bush was the guy who crashed the economy, remember? The loss of revenue that created is a fairly major reason the deficit is where it is. The Republitards meanwhile get to sit there gain traction blaming Obama for not doing a better job digging the country out of a mess their own guy created. It's almost comical in its irony.