Government shutting down tomorrow[views:15821][posts:80]________________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 8:41am - TheRidersofDoom ""] I like how everyone thinks it's the end of the world. funny thing is that the people who will get the blame will be the republicans and their teabag element is screaming for the government to shut down...wonder how pissed they will be when they don't get their foodstamps/welfare/social security. I'm betting it shuts down...but comes back before the first to avoid a wave of angry senior citizens thoughts? old news? raviolis? |
| _____________________________ [Apr 7,2011 9:02am - SLAG ""] Good? |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 9:23am - AndrewBastard ""] heres a thought....NOT GOING TO HAPPEN |
| ______________________________ [Apr 7,2011 9:24am - Eddie ""] "foodstamps/welfare/social security" - none of this would shut down. Also police/fire/military wouldn't shut down either. i want a shut down, make people realize they don't need the government everyday of the week. Hope this leads to a smaller government that stay out of my buisness. |
| ______________________________ [Apr 7,2011 9:24am - Eddie ""] AndrewBastard said:heres a thought....NOT GOING TO HAPPEN happened in 1994 if i remember correctly. |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 9:26am - Alx_Casket ""] Looking back, we were fools to think that it was impossible; that it was never going to happen... |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 9:41am - conservationist ""] TheRidersofDoom said:funny thing is that the people who will get the blame will be the republicans and their teabag element is screaming for the government to shut down...wonder how pissed they will be when they don't get their foodstamps/welfare/social security. Hope they get pissed, and realize that unless we cut social spending entirely, we'll forever be in an inflation-recession cycle. Fuck welfare. Technology should have us all working 4-hour days, instead we're working twice or more that so we can include everyone. Hail natural selection... and racial/class/caste segregation of course. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 10:12am - the_reverend ""] Damn... I should have done my taxes earlier. |
| ______________________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 10:20am - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""] Free camping in National Parks and Forests for me. Also, start fires and don't give a fuck in national parks; steal that picinic basket, no ranger will stop you. |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 10:23am - arktouros ""] good old american political showmanship. make sure the other party does nothing by doing nothing and get re-elected for showing that the other party did nothing. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 10:25am - goatcatalyst ""] The militia is meeting at the Grange at 6pm sharp. Our coup will be a success! We must secure the existence of our Myatt in a future for sexy children. 14/813 |
| ____________________________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 10:27am - RustyPS should be working ""] you would think this would cause both sides to get their respective heads out of their asses and get shit done....guess not |
| ______________________________ [Apr 7,2011 10:39am - Yeti ""] here's to hoping there is no governmental restart. they need to delete their system32 folder. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 10:50am - Skinsandwich ""] I read this as "Government shitting down tomorrow" which would have made sense too. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 10:52am - Blessed_Offal ""] AndrewBastard said:heres a thought....NOT GOING TO HALPIN |
| __________________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 11:13am - sixstringcarnage ""] Yeti said:here's to hoping there is no governmental restart. they need to delete their system32 folder. To many chache folders... not enough money to hire employment to delete them |
| __________________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 11:54am - largefreakatzero ""] goatcatalyst said:The militia is meeting at the Grange at 6pm sharp. Our coup will be a success! We must secure the existence of our Myatt in a future for sexy children. 14/813 I "won't" be there and "won't" be bringing a ridiculous amount of firepower to contribute. |
| _______________________________ [Apr 7,2011 12:42pm - Mutis ""] the_reverend said:Damn... I should have done my taxes earlier. |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 1:14pm - TheRidersofDoom ""] Social security checks will be on hold. student loans will not be processed taxes will not be processed non emergency visas/passports will not be processed military paychecks will be late most public employees will be on unpaid furlough but at least the senators get paid! honestly, let's hope the market crashes, America gets divided and carved up many pockets of free zones, like parts of Ukraine were after ww1, and we can all live like savages/barbarians. I need to stop dreaming primitive-Anarchist fantasies |
| ___________________________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 1:16pm - RustyPS should be working ""] Blessed_Offal said: AndrewBastard said:heres a thought....NOT GOING TO HALPINWIN! |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 1:18pm - TheRidersofDoom ""] let me edit that, new social security applicants will be on hold, people who already have it will still get them. http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/07/ways-shutdown-hurts-economy |
| ______________________________ [Apr 7,2011 3:30pm - sigh ""] conservationist said: Technology should have us all working 4-hour days, instead we're working twice or more that so we can include everyone. I would argue that I spend most of my time in an 8 hour work day making sure that technology you speak of is still working. It's not that streamlined yet. |
| ______________________________ [Apr 7,2011 3:33pm - sigh ""] Pretty pissed if my tax return doesn't get processed though. |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 7,2011 3:40pm - the_reverend ""] sigh said:Pretty pissed if my tax return doesn't get processed though. |
| ______________________________ [Apr 7,2011 5:08pm - Eddie ""] gay |
| __________________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 8:21am - Botorious N.I.G. ""] Imma pay taxes WITH MY ASS this year Dear IRS, it's not a turd in the mail, it's a sculpture I made with my ass. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 9:55am - DestroyYouAlot ""] So is the government cancelled? Did someone post its address? |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 1:49pm - conservationist ""] Dudes, we've finally achieved ANARCHY! Allright! |
| ______________________________ [Apr 8,2011 6:09pm - yummy ""] this can only be a good thing |
| ___________________________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 6:15pm - RustyPS should be working ""] put a picture of the White House on a milk carton |
| ________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 6:23pm - reimroc ""] our whole government is raviolis. nothing will ever get done because both "parties" do the same shit, bitch and moan. this is also why i never vote. |
| _________________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 6:24pm - MillenialKingdom ""] Not voting means you don't have the right to bitch and moan either. |
| ________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 6:26pm - reimroc ""] i don't bitch and moan, i speak my mind. |
| _________________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 6:37pm - MillenialKingdom ""] I'm saying in general. People wanna complain about the state of our country but no one wants to get involved. Voting actually does matter. Apathy is what is ruining politics. |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 6:54pm - Headbanging_Man ""] conservationist said:Fuck welfare. Technology should have us all working 4-hour days, instead we're working twice or more that so we can include everyone. Uhhh... Isn't "us all" the same as "everyone"? And do you support like a $30/hour minimum wage? Cause, like, the only way employers are really likely to implement a 4-hour-workday, without some statutory enforcement, would be if people are only taking home $9/hour. |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 6:55pm - Headbanging_Man ""] conservationist said:Hope they get pissed, and realize that unless we cut our 1000+ foreign military installations, abandon fiat currency, and withdraw from all "free" trade agreements, we'll forever be in an inflation-recession cycle. Fuck warfare for profit, and economic globalization, while we're at it. Also, FTFY... |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 7:02pm - Headbanging_Man ""] MillenialKingdom said:Not voting means you don't have the right to bitch and moan either. Reread your 1st Amendment, genius. I would get all worked up about voting if the Federal and State Constitutions required periodic, binding, direct referenda that allowed states, counties, municipalities, etc. to opt out of the republic. As it stands, we have a one-sided "social contract" that forces acceptance of the outdated, mutated robber baron state or you're a terrorist. Consent of the governed is sexy. |
| _____________________________ [Apr 8,2011 7:30pm - Lamp ""] Active protest will get a hell of a lot more done than voting if you get enough people involved anyway. If something bothers you, don't wait to take action by voting in federally-sanctioned elections. Take a fucking stand on your own terms. |
| _________________________________________ [Apr 8,2011 8:01pm - MillenialKingdom ""] I know what the First Amendment says but you obviously get my point. If you don't plan on being part of the solution instead just standing on a busted soapbox than, by all means, continue to waste your time. In fact, if anyone has a problem with the government, instead of joining domestic terrorist groups or starting protest events, run for office yourself. That's what I plan on doing some day down the road. Sure, I hate what the government does too and a lot of our elected officials are nothing but babbling baffoons. I can just as easily vote them out of office. |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 9,2011 2:42am - the_reverend ""] Deal cuts $78.5 billion from Obama's 2011 budget didn't happen. |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 9,2011 2:45am - the_reverend ""] signed into law on saturday, translation, gvn shut down for 47 minutes. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 9,2011 11:07am - Alx_Casket ""] bennyhillifier |
| _________________________________ [Apr 9,2011 11:18am - sxealex ""] is govt broked? can i not pay taxes? |
| _________________________________________ [Apr 9,2011 12:31pm - TheRidersofDoom ""] MillenialKingdom said:I'm saying in general. People wanna complain about the state of our country but no one wants to get involved. Voting actually does matter. Apathy is what is ruining politics. Wrong, statist parasites like you in the military and people who believe in the magic of the ballot box are what is wrong. fuck politics, Anarchism is the only way to be a real, free, hoomin being! |
| ______________________________ [Apr 9,2011 1:00pm - mutis ""] I'm an anarchist and I vote. Perhaps the prime purpose of voting has long been lost and perhaps even politicians don't make their decisions on voting demographics. But what is true and always will be true, is that voting instills a habitual feeling of involvement and individualism. Without that, your spirits are broken and you are a prime target for subjugation. If nobody voted, we would swiftly move towards fascism. I shouldn't have to draw a Pascal's wager diagram here. It takes five minutes on your way to work to vote. If it doesn't "do anything", who gives a fuck? I honestly don't care who our president is. I'm more interested in voting in local politics—people I will actually meet and can talk to. "The strongest point to be made in behalf of even such rudimentary political forms as democracy has attained, popular voting, majority rule and so on, is that to some extent they involve a consultation and discussion which concerns social needs and troubles." -John Dewey |
| ________________________________ [Apr 9,2011 1:07pm - reimroc ""] What annoys me is people who say "even if you don't like either candidate you should still vote". BULL FUCKING SHIT I should vote. A vote is supposed to be a representation of your approval of a candidate being the leader of our country. If I feel neither candidate will do good job I will not vote, period. |
| __________________________________________ [Apr 9,2011 1:11pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] reimroc said:If I feel neither candidate will do good job I will not vote, period. this. |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 9,2011 1:15pm - TheRidersofDoom ""] I only vote for the lesser of two evils, as far as I am concerned politics is a disease and all politicians are corrupt, just some less than others hence why I vote so as to make sure the lesser of evils is elected and not the born again anti-evolutionists...as I'm not ready to die or go to the gulag/Guantanamo for my beliefs. I agree with Emma Goldman that the masses are a bunch of fearful sheep who don't want to support themselves, they want the government in their lives and directing them. In fact I blame the ignorance, contentedness, laziness of the people for their oppression more than I do the people who exploit them. Everyone knows that the banks, government, military industrial complex are screwing them, most people are just too afraid of what life would be like without a strong central government or fail to understand that shit would still get done without a bunch of geriatric farts hanging out in a dusty building arguing about shit and denying science. cool story bro? |
| ______________________________ [Apr 9,2011 1:42pm - mutis ""] reimroc said:What annoys me is people who say "even if you don't like either candidate you should still vote". BULL FUCKING SHIT I should vote. A vote is supposed to be a representation of your approval of a candidate being the leader of our country. If I feel neither candidate will do good job I will not vote, period. I usually write-in "Batman" or something. Once I voted for "Keith Mars" for Sheriff. Nobody should vote for someone if they don't think that person represents them. But it's stupid not to show to vote at all just because you don't want to vote for a president etc. There's many other political positions besides president and governor in case you haven't noticed. It's also a chicken and the egg sort of thing. Young people and certain other demographics don't vote because they feel that no candidates represent them, and candidates don't direct their campaigns to these people because they know they don't vote. If you're too lazy to vote, you're too lazy to start a revolution when the time comes. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 9,2011 3:07pm - Woah!_NLI! ""] Shit just got real. Or not. |