Government shut down
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
February 19, 2011 9:34am CST
The house passed their budget but it is not expected to pass the senate. Reid and plenty of other democrats claim that the GOP is going to shut down government March 4th. Wouldnt the shutting down be due to the Senate and or the President not passing the bill? I find it very amusing that they try to spin everything to point to the right. Dont fall for their crap.
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@hofferp (4734)
• United States
19 Feb 11
Since the House did its job and now it's the Senate's turn to do its job, just how stupid does Reid think we are to say the R's are going to shut down Government? Sure looks to me, if Government shuts down, it's the Senate's baby, and last time I checked, there were more D's than R's in the Senate and Reid "leads" those D's. So my finger would point right at Reid... G*d, I wish he'd been beaten...
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
25 Feb 11
You have to admit the Democrats are pretty crafty, the American people just may fall for this. What better way to sway the political momentum their way? Convince the people that it's all the Republican's fault. Heck, who needs a balanced budget...why NOT spend our way into oblivion? Those nasty Republicans are denying you your right to HAVE IT ALL and not to worry, we'll just borrow more money from China to cover it.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
19 Feb 11
Sounds like "if we don't get our own way and if we don't get all the entitlements we figure we are entitled to, we will shut everything down." If they want America to be ruined and that everyone goes into debt for all generations and that Americans will have to obey China, then I guess that is what they want.
It is the same thing happening in Minnesota where all those union workers are demanding they get all those benefits. I guess they have not heard about saving.
How do you spell B=l-a-c-k-m=a-i-l?
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@onlydia (2808)
• United States
20 Feb 11
Hey I'm a union worker. and we froze are pay for a year maybe more. And that is the other state next door. WIS. LOL. But anyway I told my union guys to go to Mexico and China and help them out and stop taking my money as I never wanted to be in the union in the first place. But you have a great night. How have you been?
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
19 Feb 11
Some people will believe anything!
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
22 Feb 11
i think they ought to be told if they shut it down,go on vacation or anything else before they get some kind of agreement to these arguements,they should be kicked out of office.
this "i'm gonna take my toys and go home" routine is making things worse by the day.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
6 Mar 11
that works too.i know i wouldn't get paid if i didn't do my job.
probably get fired too.
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@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
20 Feb 11
You failed to mention that the 'Publicans tacked on as part of the bill a measure that would keep the congress from funding the health care law. They passed the whole shebang knowing that it would not make it through the senate and even if it did, the president won't sign it. They just want the American people to blame the dem's for it not passing. If people want the truth about the congressional shenanigans, they should go to the web sites that spell it all out in black and white and not depend upon the partisan wailings of those who want to influence public opinion.
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
21 Feb 11
Some may cite the previous election results as the most accurate "poll" showing people do not want complicated government measures which are designed in part to run as slogans in order to avoid actually looking inside (i.e. "affordable care").
I've been to one of those websites spelling it out in black and white. I don't know about you, but I was pulling my hair out after 4 hours of being referenced to other laws on other pages and given the runaround with rhetoric that's anything but straightforward.
By the time someone gets to page 1,381, and after they clip they nails and shave, page 10 is lost.
Maybe that was the point. 

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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
20 Feb 11
I'm never surprised anymore after the whole healthcare debate nonsense.
Republican: We want a cleaner, more coherent, more responsible bill that fixes existing problems. We want to make sure we don't simply shove something through that will drive us into ruin.
Democrat: Republicans wan't you to die.
These are the politicians. I expect it from media blowhards, which there were plenty on both sides being as hyperbolic as anyone could imagine. But when you can't even have honest debate on the friggin' floor in front of the people paying your salaries and keeping you in Gulfstreams, it's seriously messed up.
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
21 Feb 11
I'm amazed what I hear defended - well, more accurately, "how" I hear it defended.
Whatever happened to being honest? Call a spade a spade. Or, for me personally, call a schmuck a schmuck - a tag no one gets away from if they act schmuckish.
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
20 Feb 11
Of course they want to blame the Republicans, just like they called the Republicans the "party of no". Thank goodness the Republicans had the sense to say "no", even when they were out-voted. At least we knew which ones to trust.
One of my online Democrat frienemies said that they're still the part of "no" and I had to explain to her that they are doing exactly what conservative voters want from them.
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@onlydia (2808)
• United States
20 Feb 11
Well can't blaime the President until it hits his desk so it is still the Senate's fault. So soes that mean that we still have to pay them? If we didn't pay out all that money that they all get after they get out of office we would have money. see we all need to get into office better health ins. and retirement program. LOL
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@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
20 Feb 11
The GOP should have "shut down" government when the Dems committed treason in order to win an election. There have been several opportunities, including when Joe Wilson ACTUALLY TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT HEALTHCARE to the usurper and Nazi Pelosi, both of whom belong in prison. Instead of rallying around Wilson and shouting 'ENOUGH OF THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL TREASON", they took the "back seat" criminal Obama consigned them to and made a truthteller APOLOGIZE to LIARS, when they should have shut down the "government" simply by telling the truth of the coup d'etat, sedition, treason, and fraud.
Only the truth could have kept our country free.
There is enough evidence to sink a ship and blackmail, threats and murder are common re the eligibility of the State Dept.- announced DUAL NATIONAL squatting in the WH.
Yet the Repubs choose to wallow in cowardice, and the demonic Dems know how to use this to their advantage and mock them, continually making them look foolish for their part in the cover-up.
Whining liberals are only too well-versed in Marxist "political correctness" and Muslim takiyya. Only the truth and some courage can shatter the wall of deception and crime under which we now are forced to live.
@MagicalBubbles (5103)
• Canada
22 Feb 11
I have NO idea what you're talking about, but I thought id stop by and say HI!!
I hate governments....they should all be held financially responsible for what they vote.
Have a nice day!
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
22 Feb 11
lmao it is wonderful to see you! Thank you for stopping in. The discussion is just a bunch of blah blah politics, blah blah government, blah blah blah, republicans, blah blah blah democrats, blah blah spend, blah blah budget... you get the point
But I am glad to see you again!
But I am glad to see you again!1 person likes this
@MagicalBubbles (5103)
• Canada
25 Feb 11
Glad to see you too.
Oh we have lots of blah, blah here too!! lol











I am on board with not paying the senate 
