Posted on 10/07/2013 10:08:30 AM PDT by JSDude1
Republicans are winning the shutdown fight, and Democrats know it.
People turning on the news this week came away with the knowledge that it was about Obamacare and kept hearing that Democrats wouldn’t negotiate. They also learned that for some reason the President didn’t want Word War II veterans to tour their own memorial, and Harry Reid won’t turn the funding on for cancer clinical trials at the NIH. Oh, and the rollout for Obamacare is one big glitch.
Late yesterday came word that the Amber Alert system has been shut down, but Barack Obama’s federally funded golf course remains open. Catholics are openly fretting that priests on military bases could get arrested for performing mass — at the very least they are prohibited from doing so.
The President had to invite Congressional Leaders to talk, Harry Reid had to sit down with Dana Bash of CNN to explain himself, the shutdown coverage overall started to recede by Friday, and the Democrats began to shift the conversation to the debt limit.
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Obamacare saves money.
At least that’s what the sign on the side of the choomwagon says.
WE know all those things he puts in is opening statement. But do the sheeple who just watch the evening news or get their version of reality from the NY Times and the Washington Post?
The news media are painting a very different story, I’m afraid.
typo; apropos, though.
There is enough revenue to service the debt. That is a false threat. The basic problem is that the federal government is spending far more than it receives in revenue. Until it trims to reality, it will continue to borrow more and more. Talk about unsustainable!
If the budget is not cut, then we are facing the inevitable specter of the collapse of the value of the dollar. The bubble will break. We need to take steps to reduce the size the bubble before it does. There is no other option in reality.
Neither 0Care or more debt; but at _least_ 0Care stopped in exchange for any funding!
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