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could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with...
    #18920110 - 10/02/13 09:21 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

i really dont understand whats going on with this gov shutdown thing. i dont know politics and im pretty dumb when it comes to understanding shit.

is it a big fuck you to the US?
is it to save money? kinda like when they do those blackouts on your power...
is it a threat to a certain party?

i really dont understand the point of this shut down... what are they trying to accomplish?


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Not Responding] * 1
    #18920129 - 10/02/13 09:29 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

As far as i understand from the other thread about this, for most people, all they will notice is they cant get into national parks


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Not Responding] * 1
    #18920144 - 10/02/13 09:35 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The children we hired to run the government are refusing to agree on a budget. The goal isn't to shutdown the government, they just are being dickheads and won't compromise to create a new budget.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: hidenseek1]
    #18920145 - 10/02/13 09:37 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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As far as i understand from the other thread about this, for most people, all they will notice is they cant get into national parks




There is other shit that you won't notice such as can't get passport, can't get gun permits.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: AWS]
    #18920149 - 10/02/13 09:38 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

how is this okay though? i mean, they have that power to just shut shit down? doesnt that happen in Korea? south korea closes the gates on the north korean workers so they cant go into work or some shit like that...


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Not Responding] * 1
    #18920161 - 10/02/13 09:42 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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how is this okay though? i mean, they have that power to just shut shit down? doesnt that happen in Korea? south korea closes the gates on the north korean workers so they cant go into work or some shit like that...




I think it is stupid, but isn't the end of the world. I think the government should be fired for incompetence.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Not Responding]
    #18920162 - 10/02/13 09:43 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The republicans in congress are refusing to continue funding the government unless the Affordable Care Act. is repealed, or further delayed. They think that shutting down the government will give them leverage to negotiate with Obama and the democrats, But in reality they will only end up hurting themselves in the upcoming midterm elections. Now it's just a question of how long it will take for them to realize this fact.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Dr. P. Silocybin]
    #18920170 - 10/02/13 09:46 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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But in reality they will only end up hurting themselves in the upcoming midterm elections.




I need a list of who is responsible so I can vote against them. Isn't it just the tea party asses.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Dr. P. Silocybin]
    #18920174 - 10/02/13 09:47 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

so the reps think they are helping us?


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Not Responding]
    #18920191 - 10/02/13 09:54 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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so the reps think they are helping us?




They are trying to help insurance companies from having to compete or accept new customers that have pre existing medical issues. It is naive to think they think they are helping us.

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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Not Responding]
    #18920195 - 10/02/13 09:55 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Both political parties are at fault for the shutdown.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Gilgamesh18]
    #18920197 - 10/02/13 09:57 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

thanks for all the replies! i actually kinda understand whats going on. well, i dont get it, but i fell as if im not in the dark.

shits pretty whack yo!


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Gilgamesh18]
    #18920218 - 10/02/13 10:03 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Both political parties are at fault for the shutdown.




How? This is solely the republicans obsession with Obamacare, a LAW that was passed years ago.

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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: spock]
    #18920239 - 10/02/13 10:07 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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spock said:
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Gilgamesh18 said:
Both political parties are at fault for the shutdown.




How? This is solely the republicans obsession with Obamacare, a LAW that was passed years ago.

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And the democrats refusal to compromise has resulted in the shutdown don't go around pretending one party is at fault they both are. Oh and just in case your wondering no I am not a republican I vote libertarian.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Gilgamesh18]
    #18920253 - 10/02/13 10:11 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Compromise what? If some republicans don't like a law there are ways other than blackmail to repeal the law. It is congress' job to fund the govt.

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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: spock]
    #18920257 - 10/02/13 10:12 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

so our gov is contracted?


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: spock]
    #18920264 - 10/02/13 10:13 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Compromise what? If some republicans don't like a law there are ways other than blackmail to repeal the law. It is congress' job to fund the govt.

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Well that's democracy for you unless you would prefer a one party rule sure it would be more efficient for government operations but would it accurately represent the people?


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Gilgamesh18]
    #18920310 - 10/02/13 10:25 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

our current government would be compared to windows 7 as a one party rule would be compared to linux!

uh! im not so dumb after all... you cant see right now but im doing the kenny powers splooshing gesture.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Not Responding]
    #18920317 - 10/02/13 10:27 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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our current government would be compared to windows 7 as a one party rule would be compared to linux!

uh! im not so dumb after all... you cant see right now but im doing the kenny powers splooshing gesture.



Governing humans and governing computers are two different things is maximum efficiency the end goal or does it take something away like I dunno FREEDOM.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Not Responding] * 1
    #18920328 - 10/02/13 10:32 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The parties have a disagreement over Obama healthcare and refuse to sign off the budget or whatever, so the govt shut down. In the end as pressure mounts one side will break and they will all come out to a big news conference together and announce a big huge plan where both parties made concessions. There have been 18 govt shutdowns since the 70's or something like that, all lasted around a week or two. All were quickly settled and they didn't destroy the economy. It's simply just scare tactics.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: spock] * 2
    #18920339 - 10/02/13 10:33 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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so the reps think they are helping us?




They are trying to help insurance companies from having to compete or accept new customers that have pre existing medical issues. It is naive to think they think they are helping us.

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It is naive to blame one party.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Herbologist]
    #18920344 - 10/02/13 10:34 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Herbologist said:
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Quote:

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so the reps think they are helping us?




They are trying to help insurance companies from having to compete or accept new customers that have pre existing medical issues. It is naive to think they think they are helping us.

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It is naive to blame one party.



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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Gilgamesh18] * 1
    #18920347 - 10/02/13 10:35 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The government has shut down like 17 times in the last 30 years or something like that. It just happens.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: KingKnowledge]
    #18920390 - 10/02/13 10:44 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

It's theatrics, nothing more.

In reality we have a one party system, so it's very important to show a two party fight to convince the sheep that "democracy" is at work.

People that buy into this fight as being real are just fools, both parties are bought and paid for by the same interests, there's very little to fight about.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Gilgamesh18]
    #18920393 - 10/02/13 10:44 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Gilgamesh18 said:
Quote:

spock said:
Quote:

Gilgamesh18 said:
Both political parties are at fault for the shutdown.




How? This is solely the republicans obsession with Obamacare, a LAW that was passed years ago.

Peace
Spock



And the democrats refusal to compromise has resulted in the shutdown don't go around pretending one party is at fault they both are. Oh and just in case your wondering no I am not a republican I vote libertarian.




Didn't the Democrats compromise a bunch of stuff before the bill became law? They changed a bunch of stuff to please the republicans right?


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Gilgamesh18]
    #18920405 - 10/02/13 10:48 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Quote:

spock said:
Compromise what? If some republicans don't like a law there are ways other than blackmail to repeal the law. It is congress' job to fund the govt.

Peace
Spock



Well that's democracy for you unless you would prefer a one party rule sure it would be more efficient for government operations but would it accurately represent the people?




Funny question actually. China has only one party, they don't give a shit about what the citizens want because they know that the citizens are clueless.

So what they do is they take the best mayors of a 10000 people city, and put them in charge of 100000 people cities. Then they take the best of them and put them in charge of 1000000 people cities etc until the best mayors of the biggest cities get promoted to manage a province, and the best manager of the province become the ruler of china.

Their way of doing things are outdoing every democracy in the world and it create economic growth like crazy. China knows what they are doing cause they work on a competence basis.


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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Herbologist]
    #18920416 - 10/02/13 10:50 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Herbologist said:
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spock said:
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so the reps think they are helping us?




They are trying to help insurance companies from having to compete or accept new customers that have pre existing medical issues. It is naive to think they think they are helping us.

Peace
Spock





It is naive to blame one party.




Not in this case. And it's not all republicans doing this either. The Smarter of the GOP understand how crazy this is.

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Re: could you explain to the dumb kid whats really going on with... [Re: Not Responding]
    #18920925 - 10/02/13 12:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

My wife said that she used to know a man in the government, he used to send her these cards of former army soldiers that had retired from the war and decided to find the peace and security given at a loving home.

And thus she had informed me without given any direct indication of telling me it for some meaningful purpose, as if, in soem ways she just had to say the words without attaching any purpose to them. And because she was usually the first person to tell me something I always knew that I was seeing it first, that I was the person who was worth knowing this trifle detail. I later discovered that my wife had been telling someone things about me without me knowing, and every time I left her she would go up to someone and start saying thigns completely untrue.

Though her brother had recently sent us a letter that said that he was planning on staying in London and wouldn't see us for a few more years, tho we hadn't saw him in atleast 3 years before receiving this message so we were rather indifferent to the entire charade. My wife had a desire to adopt a child in the 2nd year of our marriage, but we were unsure if we should go forth with this decision to adopt and consulted a counselor. We made a meeting but realized that they were entirely booked up and we shan't be able to get a meeting for atleast a week, though the person who was going in before us used to play tennis with us on the weekends, and she usually would come but would be wearing someone elses shoes and we would ask why she was wearing someone else other than her shoes and await for her response to the question we had initially designated was designed for the purpose of her revealing her answer.

And we later found out her brother had first dared her to wear those shoes and she really didnt want to wear them, but in some ways was forced. Her mother used to hvve to put on her shoes before she would play with the little church kids w the jump ropes. Her father thought that she could put on her shoes without her mother being there, that she was old & responsible enoguh to move her feet into the space in the shoe and leaving her foot to decay there. And in some ways more than one she would feel that her decayy had been resembling the distinct colosr of abandons hues of dead flowers which no longer had anymore embellishments to offer the world, but only gave it an ugly and dead gift of something no longer useful.


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    #18921787 - 10/02/13 03:06 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Take your pills drkkenny.


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