"To hear Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tell it, America’s long national nightmare is over. Except…it’s not. Our national nightmare isn’t the government shutdown; it’s Obamacare" The Foundry.
It's unfortunate that the GOP again allowed the Obama forces to say, "look over there," not at our scandals.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
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the real nightmare is the billion the shutdown cost the tax payer. In your vain attempt to save money you waste a huge amount now that IS a nightmare nice job
It was about 24 billion, I think. Much of it used to just poke the American people in the eye, especially the military, like denying priests their 1st amendement rights to say mass and access to monuments to elderly WWII veterans. Virtually all those "costs" will be made up (cancelled vacations, etc.) in the following weeks, as is always the case in events that don't happen. And is there a real loss when bureaucrats don't push paper? Plus, they are all getting their paychecks and some states are giving them unemployment as a bonus. You Obama lovers will never see what he is doing. The money lost from jobs reduced to part time or businesses closed because of Obamacare will make the shutdown look like peanuts, but it's what you wanted.
"The last shutdown, which lasted 17 days in 1995-96, caused a hit to the GDP in those quarters. But the next two quarters saw above average economic growth, so that the long-term economic growth was essentially unaffected." Commentary, Oct. 17, 2013
Bill Whittle on why Obama had to make it hurt--otherwise no one would notice: "Some people have said that Obama is being petty and adolescent by deploying the new Gestapo – the Smokey-the-Bear-hat wearing National Park Service – as his primary weapon in making things hurt for the American people. It’s not just barricades erected by supposedly furloughed Rangers to keep the American patriots that kept this country free from freely walking through the monument erected to their dead friends and to they themselves. It’s things like keeping people on buses to prevent them from even taking photographs of the national parks THAT WE THE PEOPLE, not King Obama, actually own. It’s things like removing the handles from taps on hiking trails so that people can’t get a drink. And the list of shameful, shocking, eye-opening, jack-boot tactics to make sure this pain is felt – not allow it to be felt, but to make it to be felt – goes on and on and on."
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