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OfflinePatlal
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The US government is back to work!
    #18985637 - 10/16/13 11:08 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

It's about time this joke ended.

What has the government gained from all this? Nothing

Has the government learned anything? Probably not

Overall: Waste of time, money, resource, respect, credibility, etc.


Yay!


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Patlal] * 1
    #18985653 - 10/16/13 11:12 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Well guess I'll see ya'll at the next arbitrary panic attack

Someday shits going to go down and we'll all think its a big joke, which it will be, a big joke on us. Yay


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Patlal] * 1
    #18985673 - 10/16/13 11:16 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Patlal said:

What has the government gained from all this? Nothing

Has the government learned anything? Probably not

Overall: Waste of time, money, resource, respect, credibility, etc.





Doesn't this usually happen every time the US government does anything? :smirk:


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Patlal]
    #18985760 - 10/16/13 11:37 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

told ya they were just on vacation. watch them come back with acapulco shirts. :cool:


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Patlal] * 1
    #18985770 - 10/16/13 11:40 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Patlal said:
It's about time this joke ended.

What has the government gained from all this? Nothing

Has the government learned anything? Probably not

Overall: Waste of time, money, resource, respect, credibility, etc.


Yay!




If polls shift half a point its worth it to them.


Either way, Americans know this was all a scheme by Republicans, so if anything its gonna help the Democrats retain the Senate and maybe pick up seats in the House.

Plus, we get to go through this bullshit again in 3 more months..


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Patlal]
    #18985944 - 10/16/13 12:36 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

What was the logic (if any) behind this shutdown thing anyway?

American politics makes me :lolwut:


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Mad_Larkin]
    #18985974 - 10/16/13 12:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

It's about fairness.  The President and Congress want to exempt themselves from feeling the impact of Obamacare and the President handed out (illegally) special breaks to unions and big corporations.  What about the American people?

We got fucked.  Go try to sign up for Obamacare and you have to enter a rabbit warren that is designed with one goal in mind - keeping you from finding out how expensive health insurance is now going to be if you are a young American.

EPIC FAIL
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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd]
    #18985978 - 10/16/13 12:44 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

There was one positive accomplishment; Obama's poll ratings are now below those of George W. Bush at the same time in his tenure, so fuck you Obama.  This middle finger is for you, baby!

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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd]
    #18985981 - 10/16/13 12:45 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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mpd said:
It's about fairness.  The President and Congress want to exempt themselves from feeling the impact of Obamacare and the President handed out (illegally) special breaks to unions and big corporations.  What about the American people?

We got fucked.  Go try to sign up for Obamacare and you have to enter a rabbit warren that is designed with one goal in mind - keeping you from finding out how expensive health insurance is now going to be if you are a young American.

EPIC FAIL
:kingcrankey:





THats pretty fucked up


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd]
    #18985982 - 10/16/13 12:45 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Obama's gonna fill up my gas tank so shut your mouth!


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Patlal]
    #18985991 - 10/16/13 12:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Back to work :confused:

Great.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18986045 - 10/16/13 12:57 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Mouth duly zipped shut...  I hope the gas was worth gagging me.  :lol:


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Mad_Larkin]
    #18986046 - 10/16/13 12:57 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Mad_Larkin said:
What was the logic (if any) behind this shutdown thing anyway?





The tea-party idiots strapped a bomb to their chest and said "We'll blow up the country if we don't get our way" Thankfully the GOP leadership is stupid enough to follow them, but not so insane that they went through with it.
Basically they threw a temper tantrum/ bluff, and all we got out of it was a dip in the stock market, a bunch of lost revenue in tourist towns near federal parks, and federal employees out of work. The GOP now has single digit poll ratings. All they're doing is fucking us, and themselves.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch]
    #18986064 - 10/16/13 01:01 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Lynnch said:
Quote:

Mad_Larkin said:
What was the logic (if any) behind this shutdown thing anyway?





The tea-party idiots strapped a bomb to their chest and said "We'll blow up the country if we don't get our way" Thankfully the GOP leadership is stupid enough to follow them, but not so insane that they went through with it.
Basically they threw a temper tantrum/ bluff, and all we got out of it was a dip in the stock market, a bunch of lost revenue in tourist towns near federal parks, and federal employees out of work. The GOP now has single digit poll ratings. All they're doing is fucking us, and themselves.




What a crock of shit.  Your understanding of Tea Party politics gets a single digit rating.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd] * 1
    #18986093 - 10/16/13 01:08 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Threatening to let the US default on it's loans and ruin the economy just to force some dumb policy they've failed to enact 46 times already is hardly what I'd call 'politics'. Most people where I'm from call it 'Insanity'.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch] * 1
    #18986099 - 10/16/13 01:10 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Lynnch said:
Threatening to let the US default on it's loans and ruin the economy just to force some dumb policy they've failed to enact 46 times already is hardly what I'd call 'politics'. Most people where I'm from call it 'Insanity'.





Over here we just call that government.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch] * 1
    #18986105 - 10/16/13 01:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Lynnch said:
Threatening to let the US default on it's loans and ruin the economy just to force some dumb policy they've failed to enact 46 times already is hardly what I'd call 'politics'. Most people where I'm from call it 'Insanity'.




It's theater, are you this gullible?


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch] * 2
    #18986106 - 10/16/13 01:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

As long as we keep Obama from enacting his agenda it is a victory for the American people, Lynnch.  Someone has to stop the welfare state's expansion and that is the job of the Tea Party and we are winning and will continue to win.  Our prospects for 2014 look even better than they did in 2010.

A betting man would take me up on this.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd]
    #18986122 - 10/16/13 01:15 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Lynnch said:
Threatening to let the US default on it's loans and ruin the economy just to force some dumb policy they've failed to enact 46 times already is hardly what I'd call 'politics'. Most people where I'm from call it 'Insanity'.




obamacare is awesome!!!!!!!

http://www.caintv.com/bonnie-doon-ice-cream-factory


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd]
    #18986132 - 10/16/13 01:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

It hasn't always been this way. There used to be ideals in government about benefiting the whole country, working towards the greater good; not just trying to beat your opponents and get reelected.
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It's theater, are you this gullible?



No, it is not. I have friends out of work because of the shutdown. This is real stuff that affects everyone, the world even.
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...A betting man would take me up on this.



I don't fault you for believing what you believe, but I personally doubt the GOP is going to last long.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch]
    #18986139 - 10/16/13 01:21 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Lynnch said:
It hasn't always been this way. There used to be ideals in government about benefiting the whole country, working towards the greater good; not just trying to beat your opponents and get reelected.




When was this? The first 2 days of the French Revolution?


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch] * 1
    #18986140 - 10/16/13 01:21 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Lynnch said:
Quote:

Mad_Larkin said:
What was the logic (if any) behind this shutdown thing anyway?





The tea-party idiots strapped a bomb to their chest and said "We'll blow up the country if we don't get our way" Thankfully the GOP leadership is stupid enough to follow them, but not so insane that they went through with it.
Basically they threw a temper tantrum/ bluff, and all we got out of it was a dip in the stock market, a bunch of lost revenue in tourist towns near federal parks, and federal employees out of work. The GOP now has single digit poll ratings. All they're doing is fucking us, and themselves.




I know enough about American politics to know that splitting blame is pointless. Both parties are owned by the same people.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch] * 1
    #18986157 - 10/16/13 01:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Lynnch said:
It hasn't always been this way. There used to be ideals in government about benefiting the whole country, working towards the greater good; not just trying to beat your opponents and get reelected.
Quote:

qman said:
It's theater, are you this gullible?



No, it is not. I have friends out of work because of the shutdown. This is real stuff that affects everyone, the world even.
Quote:

mpd said:
...A betting man would take me up on this.



I don't fault you for believing what you believe, but I personally doubt the GOP is going to last long.




"I have friends out of work because of the shutdown."

So what?  It was a temporary situation from the very beginning.

Do you even understand the stupidity of thinking that a default was ever going to happen?


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: B_BOY]
    #18986159 - 10/16/13 01:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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B_BOY said:
Quote:

Lynnch said:
Threatening to let the US default on it's loans and ruin the economy just to force some dumb policy they've failed to enact 46 times already is hardly what I'd call 'politics'. Most people where I'm from call it 'Insanity'.




obamacare is awesome!!!!!!!

http://www.caintv.com/bonnie-doon-ice-cream-factory





Just curious as to why they're closing due to health care costs . My employer just made us all sign a paper saying they don't offer health benefits .

Closing the doors seems a little drastic .


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: HeroMike]
    #18986166 - 10/16/13 01:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

the company also said the Obama economy is pointless to try and stay in business under. And it sounds like your company is ready for you all to sign up for Obummercare


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: qman]
    #18986179 - 10/16/13 01:28 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Do you even understand the stupidity of thinking that a default was ever going to happen?



Yes, having a default happen would've been monumentally stupid. Do you then understand why the threat of one was so stupid? Ridiculous? Insane?


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch]
    #18986191 - 10/16/13 01:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

once again the US government takes in way more every month than what we owe. So now we just added a trillion dollars in debt. Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling when he was a senator.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: B_BOY]
    #18986192 - 10/16/13 01:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I think you need to check your math.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch]
    #18986198 - 10/16/13 01:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Not at all, do some research for yourself, don't make a conservative prove you wrong. Like i said why did Obama vote AGAINST raising the debt ceiling in 06?


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch] * 2
    #18986201 - 10/16/13 01:35 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Except that we take in more than 10 times the amount of revenue each month as would be required to service our debt.  Not raising the debt ceiling is where we are headed.  You can't spend money you don't have forever and ever and call it the greater good of America or anything else.  We are robbing our grandchildren of their freedom so we can lavishly spend on these ridiculous entitlement programs today.  It is unsustainable and everyone knows it.

Only the Republicans are willing to face this fact.  The Democrats prefer to kick the can down the road.  Well, we are awfully close to that end of the road and it has to stop.

I hope there is enough support in the House to destroy this unamerican, anti-freedom bill.

Government can't spend money it doesn't have if it is shutdown and if the debt ceiling isn't raised, then deficit spending will cease.

It doesn't get any simpler than that.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch]
    #18986207 - 10/16/13 01:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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but I personally doubt the GOP is going to last long.




:laugh2:

People have been making the claim for decades that party X will be gone before you know it. Which party that is varies over the years.

America swings back and forth but always returns to the center.

The only people more foolish than those that  spout such nonsense are those that actually believe it.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd]
    #18986215 - 10/16/13 01:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

i want to hear from a liberal on why Obama voted no on the debt ceiling in 06? Why did harry reid bash republicans for trying to raise the debt ceiling? Until a Democrat can explain that one question i am done here :smile:


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch] * 1
    #18986223 - 10/16/13 01:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Lynnch said:
Quote:

qman said:
Do you even understand the stupidity of thinking that a default was ever going to happen?



Yes, having a default happen would've been monumentally stupid. Do you then understand why the threat of one was so stupid? Ridiculous? Insane?




A unrealistic threat makes it illegitimate, and therefore the only people that believed in this threat were very gullible.

Iran can threaten to nuke the US tommorrow, it doesn't make the threat legitimate, it makes it silly and unrealistic.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: B_BOY]
    #18986238 - 10/16/13 01:41 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

B_BOY said:
i want to hear from a liberal on why Obama voted no on the debt ceiling in 06? Why did harry reid bash republicans for trying to raise the debt ceiling? Until a Democrat can explain that one question i am done here :smile:




Don't hold your breath.

As you know:
If Bush did "A", it was bad.

If Obama does "A", it's good.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: qman]
    #18986244 - 10/16/13 01:42 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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therefore the only people that believed in this threat were very gullible.




:thumbup:


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd]
    #18986265 - 10/16/13 01:45 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Except that we take in more than 10 times the amount of revenue each month as would be required to service our debt.  Not raising the debt ceiling is where we are headed.  You can't spend money you don't have forever and ever and call it the greater good of America or anything else.  We are robbing our grandchildren of their freedom so we can lavishly spend on these ridiculous entitlement programs today.  It is unsustainable and everyone knows it.

Only the Republicans are willing to face this fact.  The Democrats prefer to kick the can down the road.  Well, we are awfully close to that end of the road and it has to stop.

I hope there is enough support in the House to destroy this unamerican, anti-freedom bill.

Government can't spend money it doesn't have if it is shutdown and if the debt ceiling isn't raised, then deficit spending will cease.

It doesn't get any simpler than that.




You do realize that the Republicans know that if the government doesn't run near trillion plus deficits on a yearly basis, the economy will enter a deeper deflationary recession/depression?

No politician can mention this economic reality, how can increasing more debt make economic sense?  It does in the short term, (3-4 years), but not in the long term (5-10 years), our political system is just trying to survive another year, nothing more.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: qman]
    #18986266 - 10/16/13 01:46 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

i want to see the democrats and republicans in a boxing ring ppv 39.99. hell id probably even pay.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: luvdemshrooms] * 1
    #18986277 - 10/16/13 01:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

My parents own two small franchises in WA state. They can't hire any full time employees now because it doesn't make business sense to offer them insurance. Small businesses and low wage workers are taking a big hit


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    #18986289 - 10/16/13 01:50 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Whoa whoa whoa, don't all try to insult my intelligence at once.

So, Quit trying to mislead people into thinking that not raising the debt was some responsible fiscal action. It was a silly threat and nothing more.
Either that, or an insane irresponsible threat.

There is a good chance Texas will turn blue in the next decade. Bye bye GOP.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch]
    #18986294 - 10/16/13 01:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

You guys can't even agree on the reason your party is doing what it's doing.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch]
    #18986299 - 10/16/13 01:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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You guys can't even agree on the reason your party is doing what it's doing.




:lol:

Do you even know what my party is?


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd]
    #18986307 - 10/16/13 01:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Lynnch said:
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Mad_Larkin said:
What was the logic (if any) behind this shutdown thing anyway?





The tea-party idiots strapped a bomb to their chest and said "We'll blow up the country if we don't get our way" Thankfully the GOP leadership is stupid enough to follow them, but not so insane that they went through with it.
Basically they threw a temper tantrum/ bluff, and all we got out of it was a dip in the stock market, a bunch of lost revenue in tourist towns near federal parks, and federal employees out of work. The GOP now has single digit poll ratings. All they're doing is fucking us, and themselves.




What a crock of shit.  Your understanding of Tea Party politics gets a single digit rating.




Actually thats pretty accurate.

The loudest voices in this thing were all tea party republicans, boehner was only involved because he's speaker.


and we all knew this was a bluff from the start, they had nothing to bargain with. And, because (as they expected) the Republicans were found to be my pollsters to be blamed for a possible default, they caved.

And yes, the GOP only hurt themselves in this. Obama's poll numbers are on him, these pointless stunts by the Republicans only make Democrats look like the better option come next year in the House.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #18986320 - 10/16/13 01:57 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I suspect that in the long run this will all make no difference.

Those that fought were elected by their constituents to do just what they did. Those same people will likely vote for the same candidate.

There will be no, or very minor, consequences.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #18986324 - 10/16/13 01:58 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

woah almost got hit by a bullet, im out of here this thread is getting hectic


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #18986345 - 10/16/13 02:03 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Lynnch said:
You guys can't even agree on the reason your party is doing what it's doing.




:lol:

Do you even know what my party is?



My point exactly :tongue2:


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch]
    #18986355 - 10/16/13 02:05 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Please go on.

What party am I a member of?


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Lynnch]
    #18986359 - 10/16/13 02:06 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I'm getting on my ladies insurance ^_^


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Patlal]
    #18986443 - 10/16/13 02:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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It's about time this joke ended.

What has the government gained from all this? Nothing

Has the government learned anything? Probably not

Overall: Waste of time, money, resource, respect, credibility, etc.


Yay!



the tgovernment isnt back to work yet


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: memes]
    #18986765 - 10/16/13 03:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

ITT: butthurt Republicans.

The next 10 years are gonna suck for you if you think this is bad.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #18986834 - 10/16/13 04:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The true spirit of this Republican Party on display:


A tea party conservative congressman lectures and berates a park service employee for the closure of the veterans memorial.

Typical. Blame someone else for what you are personally responsible for and hating everything the government does except for the things you like, then complaining that the government has let you down. The common theme? Many of these tea party type are completely lacking empathy of any sort. They don't care about anything that doesn't personally affect them.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: mpd]
    #18986856 - 10/16/13 04:05 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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It's about fairness.  The President and Congress want to exempt themselves from feeling the impact of Obamacare and the President handed out (illegally) special breaks to unions and big corporations.  What about the American people?




lol, "we all have to buckle down and change for the future prosperity for our children and their future.......... except me and my friends. no they can still un-buckle and run amok, because trust me... we ain't so bad. i mean, i know these people, they're my friends. i can trust them.


can't trust you regular American working people though, no, you're all no good jive turkeys! you gotta change your ways and recover prosperity by having less gaining more scruples about how you people act! " :crankey:


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: koods]
    #18986873 - 10/16/13 04:09 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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A tea party conservative congressman lectures and berates a park service employee for the closure of the veterans memorial.

Typical. Blame someone else for what you are personally responsible for and hating everything the government does except for the things you like, then complaining that the government has let you down. The common theme? Many of these tea party type are completely lacking empathy of any sort. They don't care about anything that doesn't personally affect them.




I agree with all of this except for the fact that you pin it on one political party, there hasn't been any empathetic and empowered political parties in the history of man as far as I've heard.

Democrat and Republican politicians alike would strangle an old woman for her life insurance if they thought they could get away with it.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Repertoire89]
    #18988640 - 10/16/13 10:11 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

ok NOW the government is back to work.





and i'm drunk.


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: Magicman69]
    #18988677 - 10/16/13 10:17 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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My parents own two small franchises in WA state. They can't hire any full time employees now because it doesn't make business sense to offer them insurance. Small businesses and low wage workers are taking a big hit



How many people do they employ in these "small franchises"?


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Re: The US government is back to work! [Re: nicechrisman]
    #18988880 - 10/16/13 10:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Magicman69 said:
My parents own two small franchises in WA state. They can't hire any full time employees now because it doesn't make business sense to offer them insurance. Small businesses and low wage workers are taking a big hit



How many people do they employ in these "small franchises"?




No shit. 50 employees is not a small franchise. And, I doubt it makes business sense to hire from the bottom of the labor market and good luck retaining employees.

Sounds like a lot more part time jobs. :shrug:


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