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Paul Ryan: ‘We’re Not Looking for a Government Shutdown’
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kreese
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 9:48amShutdown? It would be an improvement!
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 9:25amwalkwithme1966
Report Post »Posted on February 21, 2011 at 5:01am
@DARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA you said you would be willing to forgo a paycheck or two but what about all our soldiers who have families living paycheck to paycheck and the same with the elderly who are living one social security check to the next?
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We older people will make it. We have before and will again. Because we know how.
TexasStu
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 8:51amOnly the Dems are crying about a shut down. Perhaps that will be the only way our government will save money….at least until we vote out the remaining Dems.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 8:44amIt may be contentious but at least our law makers are negotiating. In other words, DOING THEIR JOB, unlike the gentlemen from Wi.
Report Post »Salmad
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 8:38amWe are only a few years away from the divided states of america.
Report Post »Nations
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 8:34amPEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, RESTORE OUR ECONOMY, STOP UNEMPLOYMENT…THIS IS A NO BRAINER!
If President Obama had a brain, all of the turmoil in the world could be nullified to some degree by doing one thing. Pull out the STOPS to restoring America as the Oil Giant it could be if not for the Liberal and Progressive inclination to destroy the American Oil Industry. If we allowed exploration and amplification of the Oil Industry in this nation we would cause the Middle East to stop and think twice about allowing rebellion to destroy their jobs; cause the oil industry to start the financial burgeoning of our economy and allow employment to amplify throughout the nation. It would give us jobs. Oil is the driving force behind all of this crap that the world is currently facing. If a nation, person or a people want a change of attitude, “money flowing” always causes a change of mind. Obama could accomplish this if he would just go to the media and say He is pulling out out all the stops to whatever is holding up any amplification of America’s driving force…Energy and Oil. It is a no brainer. Wake up Obama and wake up America!
Report Post »tomloy
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:59amI say, shut the government down. It would force the feds to only spend what they take in. A novel idea.
Report Post »lot21
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:36amshut it downd, where will your checks come from now????
Report Post »scoter
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 8:47amYou righ If there not in White House ther not spinding money. We dont have.
Report Post »fatsomann
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:19amThat’s too bad (about not looking for a shutdown). If no ones in DC looking to spend that’s good for us.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 6:51amOf course the Reps. aren’t looking for a shutdown every sane person knows this. Only those drinking tall glasses of Bama koolaid are brainwashed enough to try to blame the Congress over this problem and not look at the facts that it is INSANE to release a one year $3.7 TRILLION dollar budget when our government is so broke and so far in debt we are on the fast track to economic destruction and 3rd world status. Only a complete loon would try to blame the people with enough common sense out there who are trying to drastically cut spending and get us back on a path of fiscal sense.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 12:15pmWould the Democrats not voting for the proposed budget cuts not be the ones Shutting Down The Government?
Report Post »Gil N Mechanicsville
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 6:40amThe “we’ll shut down the government” is a ploy used by those who wish to continue the the same out of control spending habits we have seen in the past. The idea is to cause the greatest inconvenience to the most susceptible people. Democrat Governors Warner and Kaine played the same card here and Virginia closing down the DMV. Get wise people, when I had to retire because of a disability (not my first choice) I took a 50% cut in income. Well, I’m still here, still have my house and still am able to eat. I made changes however, can’t afford a new car but I still have one. Still performs well. We all have to make changes when times are tough.
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NHABE64
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 5:41amMore people better wake up and smell the stench the socialist party (formerly the Democratic Party) is making. Paul Ryan is a smart man and we better listen to what he is tellng us. The United States is in deep **** and the sooner more Americans wake up to what Barack Obaam and his crew of cockroaches is trying to do us, the better. Wake up America!
Report Post »justice
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 5:28amDo not budge. This President has already ruined this country. It is time for him to be stopped.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:28amJoeAmerica
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 3:57am
Yeah! Impeach that guy who saved our country from complete disaster!! I want his head!!
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Surely you jest that Obama saved our Country from anything, besides saving the unions, of course. The unions made out so well at GM, and the investors got the shaft. Like I said before, the unions got their payola, but in what way did Obama save the Country?
Report Post »Extremepatriot
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:13amWhy NOT?
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 3:21amImpeach Obama.
Report Post »JoeAmerica
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 3:57amYeah! Impeach that guy who saved our country from complete disaster!! I want his head!!
Report Post »Capitalist Mama
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 11:45amReally Joe, really? What disaster? How did the President save us? Exactly, please.
He doesn’t make laws. He doesn’t create or maintain a budget. So what *exactly* has Mr. Obama done to save this nation?
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 12:11pmJoe is just one of the sheeple that repeats the lies he hears on MSM.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 2:47amIn the name of YHWH, I WILL NOT BUDGE!
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Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 2:20amAmerica stands with WISCONSIN … and ISRAEL. obama outright lets us know he still wants to destroy both, and anyone else who opposes him.. he is so fecal he still refuses to admit ALL of us do not worship him and it is looking WORSE for him here everyday…. and that scowling Flotus his sow is off on ANOTHER vacation, this one she is spending is what, only $65,000 tax dollars.. so far. …just ghastly. hard to imagine. that would pay off our home mortgage AND our truck.
Report Post »Futureorthopod2013
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 3:54amwoooo hooooo! Bumpkins have been linked to the internet! Welcome to the world wide web…..You actually may not be country bumpkins living in a land of perpetual isolation from real society, but your thought process suggests you are.
keep it up…late night comedy at its best
Report Post »JoeAmerica
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:00amThe two above are Great examples of what happens when you cut education..
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 12:12pmWrong Joe, it shows what happens when you have liberal teachers.
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:58amPaul Ryan………one of the good ones.
Report Post »grandma7
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 3:07amAgree Patty and I’ll add – Paul Ryan – our future President!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »JoeAmerica
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:08amYeah, we need to induct him in the Good-Old-Boy network right away!
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:57amAt last someone who is making some sense. Thanks for the post. These are the kind of posts we’d like to see more of.
Report Post »trueblueday
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:55amThe last time a shut-down occurred gov’t workers were reimbursed for their lost wages, so as taxpayers we still lose in the end. Basically, they’ll be on a paid vacation.
Report Post »JoeAmerica
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:07amWhy the Republicans received a harsh backlash the last time the went down this road!
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:44amIt’s about time our representitives actually do our bidding! You go Mr. Ryan, you go!!!!
Report Post »JoeAmerica
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:05amIf we are broke we shouldn’t be bidding on anything ; ) !
Report Post »Citizen
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 6:58amyou know your on the right side when your opposition are people like joeamerica.
Many people are born into unfortunate circumstance. Some are born deformed or have drug addict parents and so on. When you see them acting out foolishly please remember many like them have never had a chance to fully develop social or life skills and have become dependant on the system to support them.
Be kind, thank you.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 12:05pm@JoeAmerica ~
Report Post »Tell that to Obama and Co.
Sinista Mace
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:19amShut down EVERYTHING!!
Shut down the ENTIRE FEDERAL and STATE GOVERNMENT!
Report Post »saviorammo
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:39amI agree, except for a small contingent to aggresively go after all the money that has been fleeced from the American taxpayer. Wherever it may be hidden. Not just TARP or Bailout, but every appropriation, most are triple redundant, that has been slid into our bills.
Canvas the last 20-30 yrs. Arrest all parties involved in the stealing, including the reps and officials themselves.
And last, tell China to go do themselves for trying to undermine our sovereignty.
Let private industry and local municipalities handle the rest.
O yea, form some serious militias to deal with this little immigration problema.
Report Post »proudconservative
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 2:00amI agree it is time to show those Democrats that we are sending a strong non negotiable message to Washington. The message is get the fiscal house in order, get rid of all Government waste. No more shady back room deals, no more unbalanced budgets, no more out of control spending, and it is time to get busy and clean up the terrible mess that has been made in Washington DC.
Make whatever decisions are necessary to get our government back to where it can be run in a manner without adding to the national debt, and put an end to Big Government. From here on out it is trimming and cutting back and accountability to those who sent you to Washington to do the peoples business in a way that is in America’s best interest,and within the guidelines of the constitution.
While you are at it seal our borders and start enforcing the immigration laws that are already on the books. If you cannot do that then you are not up to the job and will be voted out in the next election or the next time you come up for election. This is basically the message that we the American people were sending when we voted in the last election. We want much more efficient government, abolition of the IRS, a fair tax enacted, and pay cuts and for all Federal workers and make them start paying a portion of their healthcare and their retirement benefits just like Governor Scott Walker is doing in Wisconsin. We want the same thing done on the Federal level.
Report Post »JoeAmerica
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:04amWhat about the local Governments? Will you come pick up my trash? Thanks!
tower7femacamp
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:35amyes shut it down our great grand parents lived without
Report Post »the govt pay checks and we can also. Everyone is so
afraid, well I hate to tell you all but this gravy train
will not run forever
Showtime
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 12:01pmI don’t want the government shut down. I just want the Democrats to STFU and stop spending! The proposed budget is DESIGNED to destroy America. Shred it, send most of D.C. agencies home, stop foreign aid, and freeze remaining salaries.
Report Post »Chris
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:03pmproudconservative, Federal employees have been paying a portion of their retirement and health insurance for a long time. Anybody hired as a civil servant since about 1984 is on the new retirement system – which means paying into Social Security and investing in the Thrift Savings Plan.
Another big difference between federal and state employees is that the percentage of feds that are dues paying union members is pretty low. I’ve read that if you leave out postal workers the percentage is around 15%. Fed unions can’t bargain for wages and it is illegal for feds to strike, which is why it was so easy for Ronald Reagan to fire the air traffic controllers.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:18amI am!
Report Post »JoeAmerica
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:03amYou are?
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:17amGood luck negotiating with union loons but first let the dems show up to the senate .
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:23amNo!
We don’t WANT them to return!
We want elected DemonRats to renounce their citizenship and move to CHINA!
Or Russia!
Or better yet, BAHRAIN!
GO TO BAHRAIN!
GO TO BAHRAIN!
Report Post »Mister President
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:33amI would demand $1,000 billion in spending cuts from next year’s budget. That’s what the Congress should do.
But, you see, the problem is that shutting down the government now will ensure that the country collapses because we won’t be able to restart the Ponzi Scheme once we turn it off. But, if we don’t cut spending drastically and start paying down the debt very, very soon (like ten years ago or so), the country will collapse.
You see, Obama can’t lose. Either way, the country will be destabilized and paralyzed economically and socially.
Report Post »Mister President
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:39amAnd, either way, he gets to blame the Republicans. Soviet Premier Obama would probably actually prefer a government shutdown, as opposed to another crisis like the one in 2008, because placing blame will be much easier.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:49amNegotiations with socialist(formerly democrats as of 3/21/10) controlled senate is futile. Harry Reid is against anything positive for the nation he has made that abundantly clear. Any positive cost cutting move made by the reps in the House Reid has threatened to block in the Senate. Ironically that which Reid is now doing is what he use to complain about the reps doing.
This is a stalemate let the govt shutdown at least they wont be spending any more money in the short term it will also let the country see the socialists for what they are just as we are now seeing in Wisconsin by those socialist state senators!
Until all household names in politics are removed from DC n both houses and the WH nothing is going to get better. Any measure put forth will be the equivalent of a band-aid on a gaping wound.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:56amWouldn’t we all be fired for not showing up to work. How can these politicians get away with this? I really hope the tax payers who are being sleezed by the unions fire them soon. I’m surprised that these people who are protesting are still on the streets. They must be high living if they can afford this time off or maybe the unions promised them they will get paid and now there sucking up to Obama to bail them out. Most likely it will be the hard working Americans who pay the price. What comes around goes around.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 2:44amYou live in an apartment building.
If your toilet is leaking badly, flooding your kitchen and falling all over the stove and into your dinner pot and cabinets where the perishables are (an analogy of our fiscal crisi- crisi as in a plurality of crisis) then what is the first thing you do?
Leave the water running so people can continue to pee and doo-doo in the toilet while it leaks all over everything in your kitchen?
Or shut the water off and put an “Out of Order” sign on the toilet?
Of course, shut the water off and don’t allow access to the toilet.
Say..the entire building‘s foundation is shifting because of a raw sewage leak that’s contaminating the entire area and flowing out into the streets.
If the Landlord doesn‘t shut off the building’s water and fix the problem, he’s going to have a whole heap of problems.
We have to shut the dang-on water off, fix all the problems, then restart it. It may need an entire overhaul. It may not be repairable.
And don‘t tell me I’m oversimplifying a very complicated problem.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 2:58amAs a retired Military and I work for the DoD, even though I wouldn’t get a paycheck, shut it down for a few weeks. If we can get the tough cuts through, and send a message, I will forgo a paycheck or 2. Across the board, there needs to be cuts, not only in the DoD but every single Federal Govt. agency. The problem I constantly see is every agency continually acts like a sacred cow, “We can’t be cut, or the sky will fall”. The DoD has taken cuts, drawdown’s, BRAC, and still we do the job every day. The rest of the govt. needs to learn this. As a young Sergeant, I had to operate a maintenance shop for over a year, with no budget. Every time something broke, we would have to piece a part together or figure out a work around. We didn’t gripe, we just did the job.
Report Post »All agencies need to learn this, I have worked with Non-military agencies that, when faced with potential cuts, I have heard them scream “They can’t do this to us, don’t they know how important we are?”
Everyone needs to find out they aren’t important, everyone doesn’t get a trophy, everyone doesn’t get a cookie after the game, and everyone isn’t so dang special as they think they are.
I have lived through tornadoes, floods, and other not so pleasant occasions. And when the wind dies down, the waters recede, and you dig yourself out of that blizzard, you simply roll up your sleeves, grab a shovel and hammer, and get to work
That is what we need to do America, get to work, don’t gripe that the work stinks, that it’s going to be dirty, or you might mess up your nails.
Just do it, dang it, just do it.
We owe this to the greatest generation, to not soil their sacrifice, but we need to show them, their work ethic and values will live on in America.
mcfinch
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 3:13amI am looking for a government shutdown at least I can wish.
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Report Post »JoeAmerica
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 3:55amSmart you are Paul Ryan. The last time the Republicans forced a government shut down it looked very, very, bad on them. You must be a product of education!
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 5:01am@DARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA you said you would be willing to forgo a paycheck or two but what about all our soldiers who have families living paycheck to paycheck and the same with the elderly who are living one social security check to the next? http://wp.me/pYLB7-G6
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 6:12amHow about we agree that the Dems are the ones that really want a government shutdown. Lets talk about that.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:16am@colonial10
Report Post »They ARE being paid for this time by fraudulently claiming it as sick time! And that’s just the tip of the iceberg that they throw our money away on… But remember, they’re just doing it all for the children. o_O
cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:22amHarry Reid has repeatedly made that claim over the past few weeks. The Democrats and the liberal media are the only ones talking about shutting down the government. Reid was trying to say that Boehner was threatening the shutdown because he refused to answer a question about it. Grasping at straws.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the time for choosing video
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:31amToo Bad I wish they would shut it down forever
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:43amUnbelievable! How selfish and UN-AMERICAN it is to be advocating for a situation that would leave our soldiers UNPAID while they are in active service FOR YOU!
Report Post »rappini
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 9:21amThe Republicans have done it again they are still a bunch of candy Asses, shut the damn place down that’s the only way the Unicoms will negotiate. You were voted in to do a job now do it. Excuse me while I go get another cup of Coffee maybe a Royal naw it’s to early.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 9:22amDarmok and Jalad at Tanagra
As a member of that greatest generation…….THANK YOU for your post.
Report Post »You got it all right.
ishka4me
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 11:21amobama says we cant use credit card anymore to pay bills yet he puts trillions on credit card in this years budget. he is trying to make political hay out of it. i say we let him have it back and show how we are not borrowing to pay the bills. let him explain rather then blame the republicans. media wont do it
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 11:28amShut it down because people that love America would work for nothing therefore we will have our military and we will see who loves America. Evil is in the open. I pray people will wake up and seek the truth.
Report Post »Capitalist Mama
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 11:41amWalk and TIFOSA,
Paychecks are sent automatically and will not be affected by a government shutdown.
The idea that soldiers and elderly would not get paid is simply a lie designed to scare us into continuing to spend out of control.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 11:55amHe’s not talking about Wisconsin. He’s talking about Congress.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:10pmThe ones who are talking shutdown and want it .. are the DEMOCRATS! They are pushing for one …
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:13pmCAPITALIST MAMA: They’re “sent automatically” until the gov’t is shut down. The checks WILL be sent on 3/3 and 3/4 but would not after. Do you know what “government shutdown” means??
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 1:18pmNo CAT B, it’s not the democrats that want a government shutdown. Are you reading in here????
Report Post »AnnMarie
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 3:39pmShut it down.. This country is in crisis and everyone needs to jump on board to help.. If not, then they can protest all they want without pay…
Report Post »m2davis
Posted on February 27, 2011 at 12:24pmI knew the Republicans would stick their tails between their legs as soon as the Dems started talking about a government shut down. No courage, and no real understanding of why they have control of the House. We elected these so called conservatives to stand their gound for America. Not to cowtown for the Left. Get with it. Stop The Madness. Stop the Spending. Just stop.
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