Government Shutdown Theatre

Near MOUNT PISGAH, N.C National Park Service rangers blocked the entrances to the privately run Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway after owner Bruce O'Connell decided to reopen his dining room, gift shop and country store at noon Friday for lunch. The federal government had forced the inn, in a leased building on federal land, to shut down at 6 p.m. ET Thursday at the height of fall foliage — and tourism — season.

the Blue Ridge Parkway has no gates or entry fee's

The parkway's chief ranger, Steve Stinnett, said Park Service managers in Washington directed him to block access to the inn at milepost 408.6 and ensure "people don't utilize a business that, according to the federal government, is closed."
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North Dakota threatened to sue, and just minutes before the federal complaint was to be filed, Fish & Wildlife agreed to open Federal lands, not just in North Dakota, but nationally.


U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Dan Ashe announced the reopening of Wildlife Service lands nationwide late today after he was informed of North Dakota’s intent to file a complaint in U.S. District Court. The complaint, already completed and within minutes of being filed, requested a federal judge require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reopen more than 288,000 acres of wildlife lands closed to hunters and other public uses.


This is a pretty good example of how the federal government went out of its way to make life difficult by closing access to federal lands it never even staffed.
 
Seems to me the Republican Party who is against the right for workers to organize and strike if the workers dislike their benefits decided it is okay to organize and stop work if they dislike their benefits. Thank you Republicans for your wisdom.
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faethor said:
Seems to me the Republican Party who is against the right for workers to organize and strike if the workers dislike their benefits decided it is okay to organize and stop work if they dislike their benefits. Thank you Republicans for your wisdom.
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Lazy bums the lot of them I tell ya! :D
 
faethor said:
Seems to me the Republican Party who is against the right for workers to organize and strike if the workers dislike their benefits decided it is okay to organize and stop work if they dislike their benefits. Thank you Republicans for your wisdom.
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You have to be a tard to come up with that analogy

Democratic Party thinks everyone is a serf working for his government lord and master
 
metalman said:
You have to be a tard to come up with that analogy

Democratic Party thinks everyone is a serf working for his government lord and master
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And this is different from the GOP how?

All this hinges on the GOP not getting its way on the ACA, they couldn't get it destroyed in court so until they get their way they're refusing to do anything.

Of course if you sliced 20% off your military budget your spending deficit would disappear overnight...
 
cecilia said:
Petition Calls For Arresting And Charging Tea Party Republicans With Sedition (PETITION)
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Don't think sedition is a good charge. First, I don't think it actually applies here since the President could have continued funding the government by instructing the mint to issue sufficient coin (perhaps it would have been a bit tricky to get that done in short order - but haven't we seen this very situation coming for a very long time?) and second, there a re a lot of laws that SHOULD be obstructed.
 
cecilia said:
Tea Party popularity plummets
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The GOP voted over 40 times to kill Obamacare. They couldn't do it. The courts didn't do it for them. So with sour grapes they shutdown the government. I guess the GOP sinking the credit rating in 2011 wasn't enough, they wanted to prove they could do it again. Net result - GOP popularity fell. Obamacare popularity slightly improved.
 
faethor said:
The GOP voted over 40 times to kill Obamacare. They couldn't do it. The courts didn't do it for them. So with sour grapes they shutdown the government. I guess the GOP sinking the credit rating in 2011 wasn't enough, they wanted to prove they could do it again. Net result - GOP popularity fell. Obamacare popularity slightly improved.
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James Madison, Federalist #58:

The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose, the supplies requisite for the support of government. They, in a word, hold the purse that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the people gradually enlarging the sphere of its activity and importance, and finally reducing, as far as it seems to have wished, all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of the government. This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.

 
The 'Conservatives' cost the US Economy about $24Billion for the shutdown.

'Conservatives' :lol:
 
faethor said:
The GOP voted over 40 times to kill Obamacare. They couldn't do it. The courts didn't do it for them. So with sour grapes they shutdown the government. I guess the GOP sinking the credit rating in 2011 wasn't enough, they wanted to prove they could do it again. Net result - GOP popularity fell. Obamacare popularity slightly improved.
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