A strong majority of the public [60%] would rather have lawmakers reach a compromise on spending than see a government shutdown, according to a poll released Thursday. But compromise in Washington ALWAYS results in NOT enough being done to fix the problem and thus the issues never get fixed and get worse.
SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!
In the case of 'The Government' shutting down, although it is not a great thing its not as dangerous as the media hype, and liberal republican hypes make out to be. History makes it clear that this government shutdown doesn't hurt the country long term and is temporary at best. Besides, the Government is destroying America by BEING OPEN so what's few days down going to do? Slow down the destruction...maybe?
In times when our country is going broke a billion dollars at a time, and our healthcare system was MADE WORSE by O' bummer-care, our boarders are porous and our Laws are up for interpretations of judicial idiots without a clue. How the hell is it a big whoop if the people responsible for the mess shutdown? What did we do before the Federal bums had this power? Our founders DID NOT WANT the Fed to get this big for this very reason, so these results PROVE that to a thinking mind, a Fed so big it can't meet the demands of its own checkbook is a Fed too big. Raising the bar of debt higher proves only one thing, the Fed is a money hungry monster without self control.
WHAT HAPPENS?
For once I agree with Boxer!
- 1981: President Reagan vetoed a continuing resolution and 400,000 Federal employees were sent home at lunch and told not to come back. A few hours later, President Reagan signed a new version of the continuing resolution and the workers were back at work the next morning.
- 1984: With no approved budget, 500,000 federal workers were sent home. An emergency spending bill has them all back at work the next day.
- 1990: With no budget or continuing resolution, the government shuts down during the entire three-day Columbus Day weekend. Most workers were off anyway and an emergency spending bill signed by President Bush over the weekend has them back at work Tuesday morning. No harm, no foul!
- 1995-1996: Two government shutdowns beginning on November 14, 1995, idled different functions of the federal government for various lengths of time until April of 1996. The most serious government shutdowns in the nation's history resulted from a budget impasse between Democratic President Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress over funding for Medicare, education, the environment and public health. It is interesting WHY these people cannot understand that its THEIR stupid spending sprees that cause 98% of our problems, if they would simply do as any of us MUST do with our budget's at home ....CUT OUT THE PORK. These people are a menace to common sense, is it not a requirement to have brains in congress?
- Medicare: Some 400,000 newly eligible Medicare recipients were delayed in applying for the program. Again a DELAY not a direct direct issue over time that would cause the country problems.
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Social Security and Medicare, 2E
- Medicare Rules & Regulations 20
- Debt Relief Lock-Box Reconciliation Act for Fiscal Year 2001 : report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 5173) (including cost estimate ... Budget Office) (SuDoc Y 1.1/8:106-862/PT.1-)
- Poorly designed lock-box proposal poses risks to the economy
- Social Security: Claims from 112,000 new Social Security applicants were not processed. 212,000 new or replacement Social Security cards were not issued. 360,000 office visits were denied. 800,000 toll-free calls for information were not answered.
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- Healthcare: New patients were not accepted into clinical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical center. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ceased disease surveillance and hotline calls to NIH concerning diseases were not answered.
- The health-care nightmare: when will we awaken? (A Glance Back in Time).(from Nursing Forum, vol. 11, p. 336, 1972)(Reprint): An article from: Nursing Forum
- The Truth About Obamacare
- Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America: How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Constitutional Rights
- The Obamacare Disaster
- Sick and Sicker: ObamaCare Canadian Style
- Hell No! Anti Obama, Anti Obamacare Bumper Sticker Decal
- Obama Health Law: What It Says and How to Overturn It (Encounter Broadsides) This could become an issue for extended times of shutdown but there are many ways to get this information outside the C.D.C. AND THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY SOURCE LOOKING INTO DISEASES, THERE ARE MANY PRIVATELY RUN COMPANIES DOING THE SAME RESEARCH EVERYDAY.
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- Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
- Communicable and Non-Communicable Disease Basics: A Primer
- Non-communicable Diseases in Developing Countries
- Why no one talks about non-communicable diseases.(Lifestyle Diseases, the Emerging Threat): An article from: UN Chronicle
- Prevention of non-communicable diseases in the Pacific: Training module for social mobilisation and community action (Handbook) What really is amazing to me is this FALSE caring from the Liberals and Republicans about what would happen if they DIDN'T WORK hard at screwing you the taxpayer every day! Does this sound like Washington really gives a crap about you or ITS AGENDA....YOU CHOOSE!
- Environment: Toxic waste clean-up work at 609 sites stopped as 2,400 Superfund workers were sent home. They don't clean things well in the first place so if their gone what's the worst that could happen? Nature does a better job than man does anyway, a case in point is the gulf oil spill that was hyped beyond measure. The ocean cleaned the spill without our help with microbes we couldn't see.
- Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
- Apocalyptics: Cancer and the Big Lie : How Environmental Politics Controls What We Know About Cancer
- Organic Lies: Misconceptions of the United States Organic Act in America and the World
- The Dioxin War: Truth and Lies About a Perfect Poison
- The Chicken Little Agenda: Debunking "Experts'" Lies
- Fluorescent Lighting - The Big Lie
- Environmental crisis or 'lie of the land'? The debate on soil degradation in Africa [An article from: Land Use Policy]
- What Lies Benath? How ESAs Can Dig Up the Dirt.(Environmental Site Assessments ): An article from: Journal of Property Management
- What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation Environmentalists DO MORE DAMAGE TO THE ENVIRONMENT THAT A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN WOULD. Getting the Government out of this job is probably the best way to save the environment!
- Law Enforcement and Public Safety: Delays occurred in the processing of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives applications by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; work on more than 3,500 bankruptcy cases reportedly was suspended; cancellation of the recruitment and testing of federal law enforcement officials reportedly occurred, including the hiring of 400 border patrol agents {Wow, this might just be the thing for Liberals because they don't want the boarder protected, illegals arrested or the public protected at least not from them!}; and delinquent child-support cases were delayed. But knowing how inept the government is in processing forms of any kind when its open, at least this would be a great excuse for the delay. Why then, does it happen when things are normal and the government is in operation?
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- US Veterans: Multiple veterans' services were curtailed, ranging from health and welfare to finance and travel. This happens every day regardless of a shutdown because of bureaucracies in government so whats the difference? As a veteran myself I can attest to inept government delays even while their open for business.
- Serving America's Veterans: A Reference Handbook
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- Travel: 80,000 passport applications were delayed. 80,000 visas were delayed. The resulting postponement or cancellation of travel cost U.S. tourist industries and airlines millions of dollars. Again this happens while the Government is open so what's their excuse for slowness during open season? These are lame reasons to blame a shutdown for when nothing that happens during a shutdown doesn't happen when its open!
- National Parks: 2 million visitors were turned away from the nation's national parks resulting in the loss of millions in revenue. Please remember that congress can waste billions in one day so this is nothing compared to the congress being in session.
- Government-backed Loans: FHA mortgage loans worth more than $800 million to more than 10,000 low-and-moderate-income working families were delayed.
On the other hand they are good at making the most out of nothing, so the Progressives could use this as an excuse to raise thew dept sealing to even higher levels, further degrading Americas economy...so we are damned if we don't and damned if we do. Progressives do not care about you the taxpayer, they have an AGENDA and that agenda will run you over if you get in the way!
POLITICO says:
For those who don't know what money is worth these days here is a breakdown [Pre-inflation to come level's that is!] :
FoxNews.com took a look at what $100 million can get the federal government these days, and here's what turned up:
-- Nearly a full year's worth of foreclosure prevention funding. The president's fiscal 2011 budget calls for $113 million in foreclosure prevention "activities," which covers counseling for about 40,000 homeowners every month. Five and a half days of closings would help nearly 200,000 homeowners every month.
-- 18,692 Pell Grants. Washington increased the maximum Pell Grant award by $600 last year, putting the total value at $5,350.
-- 667 full-body scanners for U.S. airports, more than the double the number the Transportation Security Administration plans to buy this year. Calls for the installation of the scanners increased after the failed bombing of a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas. The TSA, as of late December, had only 40 in operation, with plans to deploy 150 this year and buy another 300 at the same time -- at a cost of between $130,000 and $170,000 apiece.
-- More than 300 new customs officers for screening at U.S. ports. The fiscal 2011 budget includes $94 million for that many new officers, hired to screen passengers and cargo at "ports of entry." The money is also going toward improving screening on the front end, at foreign airports and elsewhere. Five and a half days of shutdown could save or create 1,755 customs jobs.
-- The total cost, and then some, for next year's handling of the Guantanamo Bay detainees. The Department of Justice's fiscal 2011 budget request includes $73 million for the "transfer, prosecution and incarceration" of Guantanamo prisoners.
-- 93,949 monthly Social Security payments. With Social Security going broke, recipients might want to get their payments while they can. The government estimates the average monthly check is $1,064.
-- One full Haiti aid package. Obama's initial pledge of U.S. aid for earthquake-stricken Haiti was exactly $100 million.
-- 40 Super Bowl ads from the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau angered some lawmakers after it was revealed its Super Bowl ad promoting the 2010 Census cost $2.5 million. But why stop there?
-- Full funding for the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The bureau, which has its work cut out for it as the economy appears to stagger toward some kind of recovery, is funded for $109 million in the president's 2011 budget plan.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/10/governments-million-day-loss-snowstorm#ixzz1Imhyj3yL
That's just 100 million, just imagine what all those Billions in waste, fraud, and abuse could go to, if we could trust these bozo's with it!
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