Essentially it's nothing really different from what has happened in the past.Ah I see, man they should name it something else, calling it a shutdown makes it seem like everyone is going into a state of panic and the country is going to be fucked or something. And Code the last time it happened was in like 1995 lol.
This is the general story:
- Nation spends more than revenue can cover
- Nation exceeds arbitrary "debt" limit, which doesn't actually mean much as you'll see in the next few lines
- Nation increases arbitrary debt limit, which means that we raise the limit for the amount of money we can "borrow" to cover the costs, however we actually don't "borrow" so to speak, we create artificial sources of temporary revenue. Some people claim it comes from X country, China is used a lot, however it is a complex political/economical control that the United States exploits.
The problem lies in the passing of a higher debt limit only because the two controlling parties of the United States have entirely different ways to control the money spent.
So they disagree until the deadline and make a quick compromise. This can have temporary negative effects to the government workforce ( e.g. slow downs, unavailable services ). This is also referred to as a "government shutdown".
Ah I see, man they should name it something else, calling it a shutdown makes it seem like everyone is going into a state of panic and the country is going to be fucked or something. And Code the last time it happened was in like 1995 lol.
What could happen is actually pretty bad; Social Security, Welfare, Medicare/Medicaid, Federal security forces (guards that work for the gov't)... all of those would be gone if the the shutdown actually occurred.Social security and unemployment welfare still works
I saw in CNN that we just defunded Obamacare to avoid this shut down. Anyway, yeah good job US government.
this isn't the first time the Republicans has said no to things that would help the unfortunate and the poor they have said no to S.S., The Civil Rights Act and the Homestead Act.
Edit* And the "Government Shutdown" is only actually remotely affecting somewhere in the range of 15-20% of government services. I do however disagree with the methods the Republicans are using here, once again they're getting themselves painted as the party that wants to destroy America because of their retarded methods to cause much needed change, or rather to prevent it in this case.Every principle you stated about Republicans has changed very rapidly in recent years. Most of the GOP are old, white, rich, conservative, and quite frankly, don't give a fuck about ANYONE but themselves and their money. I find it disgusting really how they're aloud to fuck over the rest of the country's population and only care about attending to their own kind. Why do you think Clean Energy isn't popping up left and right? Why do you think we don't have electric cars? Hell, why do you think Marijuana is illegal still? They accept money up the ass from these corporations to keep their horribly outdated methods up just to make a profit.
Who do you think votes against those bills and regulation? Today's republicans will always be shitholes, sitting there in the house, collecting government paychecks DURING the shutdown, and shooting down anybody that has anything useful in society that'll benefit us. One day they're going to pull their heads out of their asses and realize how badly they've fucked over the country.To be honest, it's neither the democrats nor republicans that have fucked the country up, both parties are two wings of the same bird. What you really should thank for this is those who control the money, which in US case is the federal reserve which is basically a private entity owned by the biggest world banks and is not under the government control, I've also heard multiple times that the way they operate is unconstitutional.
Every principle you stated about Republicans has changed very rapidly in recent years. Most of the GOP are old, white, rich, conservative, and quite frankly, don't give a fuck about ANYONE but themselves and their money. I find it disgusting really how they're aloud to fuck over the rest of the country's population and only care about attending to their own kind. Why do you think Clean Energy isn't popping up left and right? Why do you think we don't have electric cars? Hell, why do you think Marijuana is illegal still? They accept money up the ass from these corporations to keep their horribly outdated methods up just to make a profit.
Everyone pushes for cleaner energy? Once those clean energy bills hit Congress by Democrats, NOOOOOOOOOOOPE. The oil/coal/fossil fuel companies keep tipping them off with loads of money to keep their shitty, outdated methods into play so they won't lose money to cleaner and efficient energy.
Who do you think votes against those bills and regulation? Today's republicans will always be shitholes, sitting there in the house, collecting government paychecks DURING the shutdown, and shooting down anybody that has anything useful in society that'll benefit us. One day they're going to pull their heads out of their asses and realize how badly they've fucked over the country.
First off, I consider myself a Moderate Republican and on the topic of cleaner energy I completely agree that it is and will continue to be a pressing issue for some time. Unfortunately what most people don't realize is that the only "clean" energy source we currently have that is efficient enough to meet our energy consumption needs AND our budget is nuclear energy and public opinion both Democrat and Republican of nuclear energy is very mixed. So while I believe we should be switching to cleaner energy sources unfortunately we have to put in a lot of research and a lot of dollars before any honestly become viable enough to sustain our country.IF we would have passed the clean energy laws in the first place and had research funded into them in the last 10/15 years, we would still need fossil fuels from the start. But as the years go on and time/technology progresses, we'd rely less and less on fossil fuel until it becomes and old, obsolete practice 50 years into the future. We will still need fossils fuels like oil for gas and petroleum based products (like everything), but we would really cut down on the usage rates if a large chunk of energy from the use gets cut out and replaced with clean energy.
As for the topic of them being greedy as some are what you have to realize is I can say the contrasting statement about Democrats. "All Democrats are these days are uninformed voters and an extra mouth to feed, most vote Democrat knowing they'll be fed and clothed by the party and never actually contribute anything to society." Now as ignorant as that sounds look at the percentages of Democrat voters to Republicans and using your logic they show just that. 63% of voters earning over $200,000 annually vote Republican whilst exactly that percentage 63% of voters earning under $15,000 annually vote Democrat. I'm not at all saying there isn't a portion of those Republicans that are "greedy" by your definition what I am however saying is there is JUST as many Democrats who want to sit on their asses all day and let Obama take care of them with said Republicans tax dollars which simply isn't right in a capitalist society.
In regards to the legalization of Marijuana, I also concur it should be legalized and generally think the Republican party is simply out of touch with this generation. My fear however is shit like DUI in the case of marijuana and what have you. For MOST people marijuana is a calming laxing drug, it decreases productivity and will to work, this could also lead to complications as a society. Bottom line being, if people are gonna do it whether it's legal or not we might as well legalize it and tax it, seeing as how fucking desperately we're in need of any sort of revenue.
And electric cars aren't popular because no one fucking wants them, very few people are willing to go home to charge their car every 4 hours, that has nothing to do with the federal govt. that's just because the technology hasn't advanced enough to make them desirable to many people.
Speaking of an alternative energy source, have you guys heard of ITER project?
US ITER: Energy for the Future (2011) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qVQZ8nFoQE#ws)
This seems like an awesome way to generate energy and it is already being made.
Fusion was always a good idea. Implementing it is another story. Scientists have been trying to achieve nuclear fusion for a century. The problem with conventional fusion power is that, even with the most powerful lasers in the world to induce fusion, and the most advanced technology, we still have energy loss between creating the energy to power the fusion reaction and the energy that is produced from it.If you watch the video it says exactly the opposite.
Using ITER's tech also introduces an alleged problem: The energy they create is so intense that it would damage the materials the machine is made of, and the neutron bombardment of an insufficiently resistant material would cause radioactivity of said material.Well I'm sure that they are making a machine that will be able to sustain fusion reaction for long periods of time otherwise why bother to build one in the first place?