Some stories coming out of Washington said that the GOP caucus gave Speaker Boehner a standing cheer when he tried to explain that the government would shutdown if there wasn’t a budget deal by the time the latest Continuing Resolution (CR) expires on Friday. So, clearly, when Boehner stands in front of a microphone and says that they don’t want a shutdown, he’s busy spinning the facts. The fact is that the Republicans in the House want a shutdown. They campaigned on it. They stood up in front of Tea Party activists and said that they would shutdown government, and they are about to do so.
This all started with the absurd notion that government is bad. If government is bad then nobody will miss it, right? Wrong. There is one nation on this planet with no government and that is Somalia. Seriously, when you go to the CIA Fact Book and look at the section called “Government,” the information says, “no permanent national government.” When you look up their system of law, it says, “no national system; a mixture of English common law, Italian law, Islamic sharia, and Somali customary law.” Their economy is mostly made up of nomadic livestock herders. The country is past due on its payments to the World Bank. Because security is lacking, even humanitarian groups that feed the hungry have suspended operations in Somalia. I’m sure you’ve seen stories about the pirates of Somalia. That’s big business.
Americans aren’t interested in living in a nation like Somalia, and the alternative is government. It seems that we’ve lost sight of all the things that we need government to do for us. Of course, city, county, and state governments aren’t going to shutdown, only the Federal government is facing that. Well, except for the fact that a lot of cities, counties, and states depend on the federal government for the money that they spend.
If the government shuts down, and you are expecting a refund on your federal taxes, forget about it until the government is open for business again. There won’t be anybody to process the refund checks. If you are a private contractor with a federal contract, you’d better be prepared to shut down your construction project because you aren’t going to have the money to pay your contractors. This is a prescription for increasing unemployment. This is going to create a double dip recession. And the Republicans are cheering.
Why would any self respecting worker ever vote for such a bunch of boneheads? Congress should do their job, which is to make government work for the people, not for the lunatic fringe and/or the corporate puppet masters. After all, they get paid, even in a shutdown.
Homework
CIA Fact Book About Somalia
New York Times Opinion
Christian Science Monitor Reports on Impact of Government Shutdown
This all started with the absurd notion that government is bad. If government is bad then nobody will miss it, right? Wrong. There is one nation on this planet with no government and that is Somalia. Seriously, when you go to the CIA Fact Book and look at the section called “Government,” the information says, “no permanent national government.” When you look up their system of law, it says, “no national system; a mixture of English common law, Italian law, Islamic sharia, and Somali customary law.” Their economy is mostly made up of nomadic livestock herders. The country is past due on its payments to the World Bank. Because security is lacking, even humanitarian groups that feed the hungry have suspended operations in Somalia. I’m sure you’ve seen stories about the pirates of Somalia. That’s big business.
Americans aren’t interested in living in a nation like Somalia, and the alternative is government. It seems that we’ve lost sight of all the things that we need government to do for us. Of course, city, county, and state governments aren’t going to shutdown, only the Federal government is facing that. Well, except for the fact that a lot of cities, counties, and states depend on the federal government for the money that they spend.
If the government shuts down, and you are expecting a refund on your federal taxes, forget about it until the government is open for business again. There won’t be anybody to process the refund checks. If you are a private contractor with a federal contract, you’d better be prepared to shut down your construction project because you aren’t going to have the money to pay your contractors. This is a prescription for increasing unemployment. This is going to create a double dip recession. And the Republicans are cheering.
Why would any self respecting worker ever vote for such a bunch of boneheads? Congress should do their job, which is to make government work for the people, not for the lunatic fringe and/or the corporate puppet masters. After all, they get paid, even in a shutdown.
Homework
CIA Fact Book About Somalia
New York Times Opinion
Christian Science Monitor Reports on Impact of Government Shutdown
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