Once again, the foreign press nails it while the DNC press flails about national park closures.
I think that if Obama were credited with ending America as superpower that he would secretly rejoice in his success. This is the wet dream of every statist liberal.
Hey Obama the gov is closed, you can go golfing all day.
American economy is still recovering from the biggest economic crisis in recent history.
By design
I didn't know it was recovering. All I see are bubbles. Allowing Obamacare through may be just what we need to pop those bubbles.
Ande he’s proud to do so. He believes America must be punished for its historical guilt (for everything) and he is seeing that he does his part.
Honestly, the shutdown is bad and will be blamed on the GOP.
To much, to late, to change anything. The media in this country is on Obama’s side, and most people get their information from the media.
The right time to fight was before the Obamacare bill passed. Now we will see interviews of the people whose employers have dumped health care coverage, but can’t get into the exchanges because of the shut down.
This whole thing was badly timed.
As the world turns away from the US the day of the USD replaced by IMF SDRs as the world’s reserve currency hastens. When that happens prices inflate 35% overnight. Followed by >20% interest rates and hyper inflation. This is their plan for the debt. Monthly benefits will remain unchanged. Eventually a month’s EBT will buy only a gallon of milk and loaf of bread.
Hear Hear !!! Excellent article !!!
Telegraph gets it
It’s easy enough to destroy a nation’s “superpower” status; just destroy the nation.
Amazing that the UK press gets it while none of the sycophants in the US media do.
THEY’RE EATING THE BEARS IN YELLOWSTONE PARK!!!!! RUN, BOO BOO, RUN!!!!!
AuTrader
Today 05:58 AM
As every previous 'Superpower' including Britain and most recently the USSR found out, you cannot maintain this exalted status for long when you are essentially broke and unable to pay for your imperial aspirations by any means other than putting your future in hock.
The US is joining a long and illustrious club of ex-global superpowers that simply got too fat, complacent and indebted to maintain the military and political infrastructure required to hold on to their position at the top of the heap.
It is an inevitable process going all the way back to the Greeks and probably even before that. If there was a way to build an everlasting empire and avoid imperial decline and fall, one of the many great powers that have arisen between then and now would have found it.
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davy
Today 06:01 AM
""A large portion of public and private wealth was consecrated to the specious demands of charity... and the soldiers pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes..."
Edward Gibbon; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
History demonstrates it starts going wrong for empires when they start thinking that paying benefits to the people is more important than paying soldiers.
colliemum
52 minutes ago
It was even worse than that.
The then Speaker of the House, Dem Nancy Pelosi, told the Representatives that they must pass the law before they could see what was in it.
Yes, that's right: this law was passed by people who did not know what it entailed.
And this law is so wonderful that Obama made exemptions for all of Congress (staff included), for government employees, for certain unions, for some Big Businesses ... and it is so great that the government is budgeting to spend 1 billion $ to 'sell' it to the American people.
If it were so good - wouldn't everybody, from the President down, queue up to get on it, a.s.a.p.?