The US government has begun a partial shutdown after the Republican-led House of Representatives refused to approve a budget for next year.
After the midnight deadline passed without agreement, Massachusetts Democrat Jim McGovern addressed the House saying the shutdown was "cynical and disgraceful"!
SoonerGal: feel like I have the plague or something LOL
Don't feel bad. Ever since they have shut down the Chat room it has been a bit touch and go. I am sure with two incredibly highly debated issues (Politics and Religion) there will be lots of participants. ;-}
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bohemianjack: According to the Congressional Research Service, the two previous shutdowns — in late 1995 and early 1996 — cost the country $1.4 billion.. "At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti. Translation... Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools." ~Decimus Junius Juvenal
JEEZUZ! Like the U.S. isn't already in debt up to their ears!!
Torless: Do you think the republicans will fold and stop trying to get Obama to take the health bill off the table...
No..
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Karen Hudes studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam. She worked in the US Export Import Bank of the US from 1980-1985 and in the Legal Department of the World Bank from 1986-2007. She established the Non Governmental Organization Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Committee on Multilateralism and the Accountability of International Organizations of the American Branch of the International Law Association.
bohemianjack: According to the Congressional Research Service, the two previous shutdowns — in late 1995 and early 1996 — cost the country $1.4 billion..
And? That's still less than ONE day spending for the military budget.
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