What are your thoughts for the US government temp. closing? - page 2.

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Quote from: cp1 on October 07, 2013, 10:48:17 PM

Quote from: Elwar on October 07, 2013, 09:51:34 PM

If your local McDonalds closed the women's bathroom...would you say that McDonalds is shut down?

Less than 15% of the federal government is shut down.

Worst shutdown ever.

If you worked at McDonalds and got furloughed you'd say they got shutdown. Are you saying that just because you're not affected you don't care at all? That 15% is still a huge amount of people that are affected.

If I worked at McDonalds and I was the only one out of 10 people not working, I would not say that McDonalds is shut down. Nor would any of the customers.

Especially if I was one of the useless workers (like the ones that were furloughed).

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Yep that 15% is significant know some people who work in the government and they are now on a mandatory strike in essence.
No wages no income just waiting on the government to bring their jobs back.

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Quote from: Elwar on October 07, 2013, 09:51:34 PM

If your local McDonalds closed the women's bathroom...would you say that McDonalds is shut down?

Less than 15% of the federal government is shut down.

Worst shutdown ever.

If you worked at McDonalds and got furloughed you'd say they got shutdown. Are you saying that just because you're not affected you don't care at all? That 15% is still a huge amount of people that are affected.

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If your local McDonalds closed the women's bathroom...would you say that McDonalds is shut down?

Less than 15% of the federal government is shut down.

Worst shutdown ever.

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Quote from: Barnacle_Ed on October 07, 2013, 04:40:22 PM

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Almost makes me regret leaving Canada for this mess. Maybe Californians will come to their senses and vote to secede from the US before it's too late.

Good idea!

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The whole thing is, frankly, bloody stupid.

Like it or not, the ACA was signed into law and deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court. Stripping over 800,000 people of their jobs because you don't agree with it is dirty politics at best...and I'd hardly give the least-productive Congress in history the benefit of the doubt.

The worst part about it? Due to blatant, unchecked gerrymandering practices, those responsible for this debacle will likely continue to be re-elected despite their obvious employment of brinkmanship tactics to get what they want. So with the next big political posturing circlejerk just over two weeks away (not that it should even be an enormous affair in the first place, but I digress) I'm extremely concerned about what will happen next.

Almost makes me regret leaving Canada for this mess. Maybe Californians will come to their senses and vote to secede from the US before it's too late.

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They didn't do it to save money. Slightly less than 50% of the country doesn't want poor people to have health care, so they shut the government down to try and stop it. Surprisingly, there are a lot of poor people in that group. I'll never understand it.

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Quote from: monbux on October 07, 2013, 03:32:27 PM

The US government closed down a few days ago, in order to save money or something. I'm not a big fan of politics, but I know some people are, so what are your thoughts about this?

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/30/20758038-shutdown-begins-as-congress-remains-deadlocked?lite

Corrupt, Corrupt, Corrupt.

I actually find this quit funny, supposedly USA is the world's most powerful and rich country in the world. And the government need to closed down to save money. Cheesy

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Republicans are afraid Obama Care may be a good thing so they shutdown everything because they want something too.

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“We’re not going to be disrespected,” conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., [told the Washington Examiner]. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/here-is-the-short-gop-quote-that-perfectly-defines-the-shutdown/280220/

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The US government closed down a few days ago, in order to save money or something. I'm not a big fan of politics, but I know some people are, so what are your thoughts about this?

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/30/20758038-shutdown-begins-as-congress-remains-deadlocked?lite

Corrupt, Corrupt, Corrupt.

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