[POLL] US Government Shutdown 2013

[garethom]

lol #skeng #sentfor #michaeljacksoneatingpopcorn

[dickman69]

GETTTTEMM

[Forum]

oooo its on

[Pedro Sánchez]

Americans don't really need a central government. They have Wallmart.

[Terpit]

its popcorn time

[dickman69]

WaLLmart.

[ehbes]

Aliens

[m8son666]

lol i don't understand why this has happened?

the american government can't make their minds up so they have just gone off in a strop for a few weeks?

can england do this?

[deadly_habit]

lol i don't understand why this has happened?

the american government can't make their minds up so they have just gone off in a strop for a few weeks?

can england do this?

Some people didn't like a law that got passed in 2009 and decided to take their ball home and stop the game since they didn't get their way, but not before making sure they keep getting paid.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

wonder how long they will be down for.

[m8son666]

hopefully 4evr lol

[Direflow]

As a radical-leftist, I despise Obama, but the Republicans are definitely responsible for this one as far as I can tell.

what this guy said

[m8son666]

can england do this?

[flood]

congress shouldn't get payed until this is sorted. shouldn't get time off until it's settled. also not allowing them to participate in insider trading would be nice

[nowaysj]

Take note that it is only services that are cut. All of the draconian control state mechanisms appear to be functioning just fine.

[deadly_habit]

congress shouldn't get payed until this is sorted. shouldn't get time off until it's settled. also not allowing them to participate in insider trading would be nice

They already work only 126 days on the 2013 calender.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-d ... 19870.html

So if we tack on how long this shutdown is and calculate how much an actual percentage of what they really work is, I can deduct that percentage off of my federal taxes right? Pretty sure when people don't go to work they don't get paid, or even worse fired, so seems only fair.

[alphacat]

First positive effect from this clusterfuckery:

Gettysburg KKK Rally Scuttled by Shutdown



A planned Ku Klux Klan rally at a historic landmark of American history won’t happen due to the federal government shutdown.

The KKK event at Gettysburg National Military Park was canceled due to the government stalemate.

Park officials said they rescinded all permits for special events because of the shutdown that began Tuesday.

The permit had been approved for a Maryland-based KKK group, the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, for a Saturday gathering.

The group held a membership rally last month at the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Md., where thousands died in a Civil War clash that set the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.

Granted, I'd prefer the more long term preventative solution but this'll do for now.


FYAH BUN DEM.

[nowaysj]

Gas prices could drop:

http://blog.gasbuddy.com/posts/Extended ... qSZxup1.99

[wub]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/b ... acare.html

Millions Flee Obamacare



UNITED STATES (The Borowitz Report)—Millions of Tea Party loyalists fled the United States in the early morning hours today, seeking what one of them called “the American dream of liberty from health care.”

Harland Dorrinson, 47, a tire salesman from Lexington, Kentucky, packed up his family and whatever belongings he could fit into his Chevy Suburban just hours before the health-insurance exchanges opened, joining the Tea Party’s Freedom Caravan with one goal in mind: escape from Obamacare.

“My father didn’t have health care and neither did my father’s father before him,” he said. “I’ll be damned if I’m going to let my children have it.”

But after driving over ten hours to the Canadian border, Mr. Dorrinson was dismayed to learn that America’s northern neighbor had been in the iron grip of health care for decades.

“The border guard was so calm when he told me, as if it was the most normal thing in the world,” he said. “It’s like he was brainwashed by health care.”

Turning away from Canada, Mr. Dorrinson joined a procession of Tea Party cars heading south to Mexico, noting, “They may have drug cartels and narcoterrorism down there, but at least they’ve kept health care out.”

Mr. Dorrinson was halfway to the southern border before he heard through the Tea Party grapevine that Mexico, too, has public health care, as do Great Britain, Japan, Turkey, Spain, Belgium, New Zealand, Slovenia, and dozens of other countries to which he had considered fleeing.

Undaunted, Mr. Dorrinson said he had begun looking into additional countries, like Chad and North Korea, but he expressed astonishment at a world seemingly overrun by health care.

“It turns out that the United States is one of the last countries on earth to get it,” he said. “It makes me proud to be an American.”

[magma]

"You've got the day off, Leslie."