That claim worked real good for them in the 90's too ;-) -----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:11 To: cf-community Subject: Re: [politics] confused about shutdown
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm reading about this looming "Government Shutdown" but I can't > figure what the heck that means. > I mean the government cannot *actually* shut down... > > yeah, it can, for the most part...though it's not quite as harrowing as it sounds. Happened before in my lifetime, mid 90's under Clinton. > And why would the GOP be cheering for that? > Part politics, but part conviction as well. (Left will claim it's all the former, while the right will claim it's all the latter....but as usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle). The politics side, they'd point to the shutdown and say "Look at what the President made us do!" and blah blah blah, hoping the gullible buy into that bullshit. As to the conviction part, they truly believe that our current spending is at a critical point of no return, and that such a drastic measure is necessary in the short term in order to ensure a better long term. We can, and probably should, argue whether or not they are right about that....but mostly you'll just hear people arguing that they don't really even have that conviction to begin with....and the pointless noise will just continue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335946 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
