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#1 2011-04-07 17:43:32
2011 Government Shutdown!
Recently as of April 7th, 2011, it has been declared that if an agreement for the 2011 American budget plan is not reached by this Friday at midnight, there will be a national government shut down.
Here's a Government shutdown definition: "A government shutdown occurs when a legislature (including the legislative power of veto by the executive) cannot agree on financing its government programs for the next fiscal year. As the next fiscal year starts, the government stops providing services." -Webster Dictionary online definition.
In other words, this means when the congress (the people voting and proposing ideas) can't agree on a budget plan for the next year,
the government 'shuts down', no longer providing funding for public
services. The budget plan for this year involves cutting funding from
government funded services, but what the Democrats and Republicans can't agree on, in simplistic terms, is how much to cut and where to cut it from. The democrats want to cut $33 billion but the republicans want to cut $60 billion according to The Washington
Post. A compromise must be made.
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#2 2011-04-07 17:45:28
- agscratcher
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Re: 2011 Government Shutdown!
All of that debt DOES have it's backlash.
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#3 2011-04-07 17:45:41
- SpriteMaster
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This is just stupid T>T Not the post, but the topic.
Let's not have the government be like the NFL.
But it looks as if it has come to this.
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#4 2011-04-07 17:46:43
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Re: 2011 Government Shutdown!
agscratcher wrote:
All of that debt DOES have it's backlash.
Very true. I don't think America can afford MORE cuts. teachers are getting hit the hardest, too. Shame.
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#5 2011-04-07 17:57:17
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Re: 2011 Government Shutdown!
SpriteMaster wrote:
agscratcher wrote:
All of that debt DOES have it's backlash.
Very true. I don't think America can afford MORE cuts. teachers are getting hit the hardest, too. Shame.
if we kill the unions, they won't be taking all of our money. [/sarcasm]
Seriously, I love it when people think that 10 billion dollars is too small. 
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#6 2011-04-07 18:18:14
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Re: 2011 Government Shutdown!
If everyone helped to eliminate the national debt, every man woman and child would pay more than $40,000.
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#7 2011-04-07 18:51:15
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illusionist wrote:
If everyone helped to eliminate the national debt, every man woman and child would pay more than $40,000.
It's insane what American debt is. Why don't we just appoint Colbert and Stewart to co-president? They'd be beast. Lol, now I sound uber biased.
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#8 2011-04-07 18:56:56
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then the government has to stop doing stupid stuff like no child left behind
it doesnt' even help
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#9 2011-04-07 19:50:13
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littletonkslover wrote:
then the government has to stop doing stupid stuff like no child left behind
it doesnt' even help
I heard teachers talking about how NCLB was pretty bad...
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#10 2011-04-07 20:06:22
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http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/ … re=related
Scary video.
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#11 2011-04-07 20:13:21
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16Skittles wrote:
littletonkslover wrote:
then the government has to stop doing stupid stuff like no child left behind
it doesnt' even helpI heard teachers talking about how NCLB was pretty bad...
my dad's a science teacher
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#12 2011-04-07 20:17:22
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illusionist wrote:
http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/ … re=related
Scary video.
If you would like to know Australia's whole economy is because of China. If China stops buying then the economy would collapse. We will just have to think of other things to do with rocks and uranium.
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#16 2011-04-07 21:23:17
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illusionist wrote:
If everyone helped to eliminate the national debt, every man woman and child would pay more than $40,000.
I love your sig man.
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#17 2011-04-07 21:24:37
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Oh no...
Riot time~
Everyone's argument is invalid. Your argument is invalid.
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#18 2011-04-07 21:24:52
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MrMokey wrote:
Canada! I like living here.
You're not without problems buddy. I heard Canada's economic bubbles' about to burst.
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#19 2011-04-07 21:26:46
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J0j2 wrote:
illusionist wrote:
If everyone helped to eliminate the national debt, every man woman and child would pay more than $40,000.
It's insane what American debt is. Why don't we just appoint Colbert and Stewart to co-president? They'd be beast. Lol, now I sound uber biased.
Stewart and Colbert want to spend just as much as Obama is...
RobotKitty wrote:
Oh no...
Riot time~
We just had two riots: The TEA Party (oo-rah) and the Public Unions. A third isn't gonna hurt.
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#20 2011-04-07 21:29:18
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Yeah. My post contained the subjective of 'Must we really discuss this?'
That's what the ~ was for~
Everyone's argument is invalid. Your argument is invalid.
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#21 2011-04-07 21:36:38
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militarydudes wrote:
MrMokey wrote:
Canada! I like living here.
You're not without problems buddy. I heard Canada's economic bubbles' about to burst.
Not quite true - actually, we've been recovering from the economy quite quickly. Now, I'm not exactly in support of Harper's government, but his economic action plan seemed to work, although the aftereffects are obviously going to be quite drastic. Regardless, we're in the middle of an election, and Harper's government is either going to be replaced by Ignatieff's Liberals, or Harper will get a majority, or things will stay the same.
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