Government shutdown? Why not?

[GoodWitch58]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/opinion/27rich.html?_r=1&hp

The 2011 rebels are to the right of their 1995 antecedents in any case. That?s why this battle, ostensibly over the deficit, is so much larger than the sum of its line-item parts. The highest priority of America?s current political radicals is not to balance government budgets but to wage ideological warfare in Washington and state capitals alike. The relatively few dollars that would be saved by the proposed slashing of federal spending on Planned Parenthood and Head Start don?t dent the deficit; the cuts merely savage programs the right abhors. In Wisconsin, where state workers capitulated to Gov. Scott Walker?s demands for financial concessions, the radical Republicans? only remaining task is to destroy labor?s right to collective bargaining.

we need to pay attention...

 

[beachmouse]

My one annoyance with the 'who's got a bigger one' game going on right now is that we're going to get an actual tax refund in the three figures this year after having to write a check for 10 of the last 11 years and I'm peeved that a shutdown would delay my refund.

 

[30ashopper]

Man, Rich needs to get back on his meds.

 

[Bob Wells]

Florida Legislature, You may limit dues check off because you think this will keep me from being a Union Memeber. Not going to happen, I will just have the government direct deposit my UNION DUES to my UNION. I will contribute my MONEY to candidates who I TRUST, I will hold signs and campaign against those who would attack me and my Union Sisters and Brother.
Signed Union Memeber/ Middle Class