Government shutdown in 1 1/2 hours

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Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Progressives aren't happy. Sure as hell doesn't feel like a "win" to me.

Nobody should be excited about the outcome, either conservative or progressive or in-between. It was absurd kabuki theatre posturing that doesn't do much towards addressing the deficit in the overall scheme of things. It was a huge waste of our time and our money. All it did was suddenly take away money, for the last couple months of this year, for some programs. Tenths of tenths of percentages. The GOP didn't get any of the conservative morality dictate riders they wanted (none), they got less than half the cuts they wanted, and plenty of good programs now will come up short, out of nowhere, this year (for the Dems). And the net-net for the overall budget this year is only a couple billion down, when figuring in the increases. The "save 38 billion" isn't net. It's just a line-item. PR. Not bottom line.

It was alot of effing superficial theatrics that didn't do squat to address our income, or the budget deficit. We've done nothing but give away our income over the past 10 years, as if it didn't matter, with no thought to the future, and made ourselves broke.

The first honest politican to say, "Let's rescind the damn expensive unfunded Bush tax cuts, the thing that caused a huge portion of our deficit, and cut the deficit in half without doing anything else within 10 years" wins my vote.