President Obama Blasts Republicans for Wasteful Gov't Shutdown

[freshwest]

And from one month ago today:

The full speech on the shutdown and Obamacare. There is no way Obama does not know what is going on as the media tries to say:

Published on Oct 1, 2013

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President Obama speaks about government shutdown and Affordable Care Act 10/1/2013 first day of government shutdown

Obama Full statement 9/30/2013

Obama:

"If... Congress does not fulfill its responsibility to pass a budget today, much of the U.S. government will be forced to Obama reminds Americans that the United States Government is the nation's largest employer Obama: Social Security, Medicare, mail and gov't operations on nat'l security will continue if government shutdowns

"You can't shut it down," Obama said of the health care law.

"Does anybody truly believe that we won't have this fight again in a couple more months?" Obama asked.

Obama called keeping the government open a "basic responsibility" and said preventing a shutdown wouldn't be seen as a point of weakness.

"Keeping the government open is not a concession to me," Obama said.

11:25 PM -- Today
Those Affected By Navy Yard Shooting Won't Be Furloughed In Shutdown

The Navy said Monday that civilians who were present at the Washington Navy Yard when a gunman killed 12 people two weeks ago will not be subject to furloughs in the event of a government shutdown.

11:23 PM -- Today
Obamacare Polls Show Why Ted Cruz Is Wrong

In his marathon speech last week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) repeatedly invoked the will of "the American people" in an effort to derail the Affordable Care Act. If only his colleagues would "listen to the American people," Cruz said, "the vote would be 100 to 0 to defund Obamacare."

Five recent surveys flatly contradict that assertion. The surveys show that the percentage of Americans who want to defund Obamacare -- ranging from 37 to 39 percent -- falls well short of a majority, while far more Americans -- between 42 and 56 percent -- oppose eliminating its funding.

And none of these questions even raised the possibility of a government shutdown or default on the national debt.

-- Mark Blumenthal

[sheshe2]

1. Oh yeah, freshwest.

The Repukes, messed with the economy and ran up more bills during the shutdown. They cost the people needless pain and suffering.

It cost us 24 billion and for what? Nothing more than their hate of this President and the need to see him fail. They hate a program that actually benefits millions of people, yes they passionately hate We the People too.

[freshwest]

2. Sheshe, I fear it goes a bit deeper than hatred. This is the same strategy the Nazis used to ruin

the Wiemar Republic which had civil rights and a safety net similar to ours before Reagan in some respects.

A government of 'We The People' works for the majority and not a minority of conservative interests no matter how they fit it into ideology.

Another word for the deliberate process the GOP has employed is 'destabilization' to make people lose confidence and mistrust in their government so they no longer are willing to work for democratic goals. That energy will be absorbed into cults by demagoges.

Economic collapses have been engineered by regressive forces before to benefit the rich and powerful, and they are quite good at it. The tecnhique is very old, just the means of doing it have changed.