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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 14:36:03

GHung wrote:
Plantagenet wrote:The MSM isn't reporting on it, but another sticking point is in the Senate, where the Rs need ca. 8 D votes to overcome a filibuster by the Ds and pass the stopgap government funding bill.

If there aren't 8 Ds willing to put their country ahead of their party, then the Ds are going to shut down the government.

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Right..... let's blame the Democrats]


Why not be honest and blame whoever causes a shutdown?

Its not like the Ds are blessed with papal infallibility. Both the R and D parties are filled with venal, lying politicians last time I looked, and there are partisan hacks in both parties who are threatening to force a shutdown based on their own political motives.

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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby GHung » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 15:03:22

"I hate to break it to you, but both the D and R parties are seriously flawed.

Which is why I've been an Independent most of my life.

Seems most Democrats are objecting to disaster relief funding being taken out. First it was out, then it was in, now it's out again (or who knows?). Those who need that help can't exactly wait for these a'holes to get around to it in the Spring.
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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby onlooker » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 15:14:30

I hate to break it to you, but both the D and R parties are seriously flawed---
Ain't that the truth
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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby Cog » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 15:18:55

So the government shuts down and sends all non-essential personnel home? Good, do that, then fire all the non-essential personnel. Merry Christmas.
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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby onlooker » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 15:28:18

Well Pstarr, welcome to the wacky United States of America circa 2017. Where anything and everything goes
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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby onlooker » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 15:35:29

pstarr wrote:
onlooker wrote:Well Pstarr, welcome to the wacky United States of America circa 2017. Where anything and everything goes

Only in this wacky place would Donald Trump be president, and Elon Musk be the Avatar. (He has promised to send a semi-truck to the moon to bring back moon rocks. And send a car out without a driver for trip across the United States . . . by the end of 2017.

And people believe this crap?

Eyes Wide Shut :?


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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby Newfie » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 18:38:05

Well, from a long term prospective anything that stops or better, reverses growth is to be desired.

Sure there will be pain, it it’s some pain now for less pain later.
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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby onlooker » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 18:50:51

Newfie wrote:Well, from a long term prospective anything that stops or better, reverses growth is to be desired.

Sure there will be pain, it it’s some pain now for less pain later.

Unfortunately, many alive now think of themselves and now rather than later and others. It is just natural
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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 18:53:28

Time to stop worrying about a government shutdown---the House just passed a funding bill and another disaster relief bill. They passed on a bipartisan vote, with about 60 Ds joining the Rs to pass both bills.

Now it goes to the Senate. As long as the Ds don't filibuster it in the Senate, both bills should pass there and this crisis will have been averted.

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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 19:00:47

baha wrote:Of Course...you do realize money grows on trees...right?


I thought FED employees attached the money to trees to dry the ink after they print it.....you mean the money actually grows there!

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Re: Debt Ceiling

Unread postby Cog » Thu 21 Dec 2017, 22:32:24

Continuing resolution passed so the government will revisit the issue Jan 19, 2018. MAGA
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