Its pretty stupid. We put in place medicare & social security scams and then we left the gold standard

Originally the debt ceiling was only to be used during war but that has changed obviously

Can you guys name another country that lets their government do shit like that? Any other place on earth that starts closing down government stuff because their elected rulors can't hold budgets etc?
Man this is some amazingly stupid stuff. If you don't have money for something, you take a loan, and you start paying back. What the US is doing is taking a loan, and instead of paying back, taking another loan to pay back the initial loan. This times 1000 rofl

whats so special here, there are many western states that arent exactly doing much better (looking at you europe)
the only special thing is their debt limit and the following shutdown, while other states just carry on

i have the same opinion on the subject that you have, but it seems like "classic" management of finances (spend only what you have, pay back loans etc) isnt really a trend anymore

This post was edited by ampoo on Feb 7 2018 06:09pm

Of course, it doesn't matter when it's up against federal law, but that's not how Republicans act with regards to states rights.

Then again, politicians cherry picking, yadda yadda.

lol

I hope she never leaves the senate

Shes the GOP's MVP

The GOP doesn't deserve a Nancy Pelosi.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42986089

i wonder how many more war crimes the us are planning to commit in syria
unbelievable

So let me get this straight, the Russian backed Assad forces launched a 500 man assault on a well established position of the YPG and US advisers on the ground in harms way, and then instead of letting the syrian army overrun our position, we blasted the fuck out of them with airstrikes until they backed off. Well, I hope they got the message. I'm curious what degree of autonomy the troops have from assad and both assad and the troops had from russia in getting themselves blown up. If the Russians actually organized it, that's a lot different geopolitically.