What a federal shutdown looks like http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-shutdowns-in-the-1990s/2011/04/01/AFB2FvIC_gallery.html
As to why? Two words, Tea Party. On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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:335947 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
