Thread on Government Shutdown: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS OFFICIALLY REOPENED!

[Skooby]

I'm reporting to our home office today. Luckily I was assigned an internal project so I don't have to use my PTO. But this won't last long. Hopefully it's a brief shutdown.

PTO?

 

[Yapdatfool]

 

[nomoreneveragain]

PTO?

Paid Time Off

 

[mbewane]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_worl...w_would_the_u_s_media_report_on_it_if_it.html

WASHINGTON, United States—The typical signs of state failure aren’t evident on the streets of this sleepy capital city. Beret-wearing colonels have not yet taken to the airwaves to declare martial law. Money-changers are not yet buying stacks of useless greenbacks on the street.

But the pleasant autumn weather disguises a government teetering on the brink. Because, at midnight Monday night, the government of this intensely proud and nationalistic people will shut down, a drastic sign of political dysfunction in this moribund republic.

The capital’s rival clans find themselves at an impasse, unable to agree on a measure that will allow the American state to carry out its most basic functions. While the factions have come close to such a shutdown before, opponents of President Barack Obama’s embattled regime now appear prepared to allow the government to be shuttered over opposition to a controversial plan intended to bring the nation’s health care system in line with international standards.

Six years into his rule, Obama’s position can appear confusing, even contradictory. Though the executive retains control of the country’s powerful intelligence service, capable of the extrajudicial execution of the regime’s opponents half a world away, the president’s efforts to govern domestically have been stymied in the legislature by an extremist rump faction of the main opposition party.

The current rebellion has been led by Sen. Ted Cruz, a young fundamentalist lawmaker from the restive Texas region, known in the past as a hotbed of separatist activity. Activity in the legislature ground to a halt last week for a full day as Cruz insisted on performing a time-honored American demonstration of stamina and self-denial, which involved speaking for 21 hours, quoting liberally from science fiction films and children’s books. The gesture drew wide media attention, though its political purpose was unclear to outsiders.

With hours remaining until the government of the world’s richest nation runs out of money, attention now focuses on longtime opposition leader John Boehner, under pressure from both the regime and the radical elements of his own movement, who may be the only political figure with the standing needed to end the standoff.

While the country’s most recent elections were generally considered to be free and fair (despite threats against international observers), the current crisis has raised questions in the international community about the regime’s ability to govern this complex nation of 300 million people, not to mention its vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

Americans themselves are starting to ask difficult questions as well. As this correspondent’s cab driver put it, while driving down the poorly maintained roads that lead from the airport, “Do these guys have any idea what they’re doing to the country?”

 

[Blackking]

this is why I don't hate on people for not being independent. lesser of 2 evils is real out here.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

lol, this gotta be the stupidest town in the Union. Real shyt I can't even include the rest of D.C. just the Hill. I almost worked in the Capitol so I got to see how some of these politicians are living. As long as they got they sexy secretaries and interns and ain't gotta answer to us in no real way they ain't giving a flying fukk. Politicians in general are extremely douchey creatures if you're just around them randomly and not on some "concerned constituent" shyt. All of em aren't like that, most are yeah....

 

[Roaden Polynice]

Personally I don't see what's so bad about the govt shutdown. Let this bytch shutdown for a bit, it's probably for the best.

Those fed workers must be in paradise now, play some gta, get a couple of wank days in, watch champions league, golf a bit. fukks sake wish I was a fed worker, instead I'm at a job, making money, christ, the ignominy, I tell ya.

 

[DEAD7]

this is why I don't hate on people for not being independent. lesser of 2 evils is real out here.

how is relying on charity "evil"?

 

[newworldafro]

may not be that bad........... according to article this is the 17th or 18th time gov. has thrown itself in the bushes... http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpoli.../8-things-to-know-about-a-government-shutdown

 

[IGSaint12]

Personally I don't see what's so bad about the govt shutdown. Let this bytch shutdown for a bit, it's probably for the best.

Those fed workers must be in paradise now, play some gta, get a couple of wank days in, watch champions league, golf a bit. fukks sake wish I was a fed worker, instead I'm at a job, making money, christ, the ignominy, I tell ya.

Yeah I'm sure they enjoy not being able to work and earn money to pay their bills. I'm sure they enjoy being at the mercy of an employer who relies on the federal government for their work and may have to fire their workers because of a government shutdown. This shyt is all fun and giggles for you.

 

[Blackking]

how is relying on charity "evil"?

what's evil is putting politics over constitutes and gov employees. What's wrong is fighting another party until you fall off a cliff.

i'm conservative so there are timse i ride w the gop (even tho that's some slight c00n shyt) ... but They are clearly the most evil in most situations - including international politics and most domestic issues.

 

[Jello Biafra]

may not be that bad........... according to article this is the 17th or 18th time gov. has thrown itself in the bushes... http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpoli.../8-things-to-know-about-a-government-shutdown

Yeah despite the media acting like this is the most unprecedented disaster in the history of America this has been happening since the 70s. I mean they shut the entire government down over abortion fights on 3 separate occasions.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Yeah I'm sure they enjoy not being able to work and earn money to pay their bills. I'm sure they enjoy being at the mercy of an employer who relies on the federal government for their work and may have to fire their workers because of a government shutdown. This shyt is all fun and giggles for you.

lol, I won't lie I kinda laughed. All jokes aside tho, if this gets worse then at the very least this may begin to light a fire under the public to really take our so called government to task. The more difficult things become the more disassociated or disconnected I think we become with helping to maintain proper governance. It's like Occupy was ok and it had the right idea but it didn't focus its tasks in such a way that their efforts would of caused real change in government. We need a collective kick in the ass, and it may come on Oct. 17th, but for right now all this is doing is shining a light on just how god-awful American politics has become, especially the sophomoric(at best) behavior of house rethugs and the Tea Party terrorists. It's all so refreshing to see them look like the a$$holes they truly are.

 

[newworldafro]

Yeah despite the media acting like this is the most unprecedented disaster in the history of America this has been happening since the 70s. I mean they shut the entire government down over abortion fights on 3 separate occasions.

Maybe ..... is key word ............................. still there are other variables, maybe not directly related, but hiding in cut lIke

Petrodollar
Derivatives
Etc

 

[mbewane]

Yeah despite the media acting like this is the most unprecedented disaster in the history of America this has been happening since the 70s. I mean they shut the entire government down over abortion fights on 3 separate occasions.

That's crazy.