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Shutdown Showdown
By Tom Shoop | Monday, September 24, 2007  |  12:49 PM

We're not really going to have a government shutdown, are we? Everybody remembers 1995, right? How nobody came out looking good? Still, the fiscal year's ending in a week, almost all of the appropriations bills haven't been passed, and it seems like there's a whole lot of brinksmanship going on.



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That's an oxymoron the "government running efficiently" a better one would be pouring money down a rat hole

dan ketter  | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |  05:03 PM



We can eliminate depenency on foreign oil by simply using our own (Alaska and Gulf of Florida, Will we continue to by oil from those that are trying to harm us, foolish Liberals. We need an across the board spending cuts every agency 10% an dstart eliminating agencies to corespond to the Constitution not socialist desires.

phil  | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |  09:12 AM



But, we have billions of dollars to spend on important things like helping the homeless and the elderly and uninsured children and other uninsured people and for developing our infrastructure and helping new industries get started to create jobs for the unemployed and to finance new energy projects to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and to fix the schools and upgrade the Internet.

We need the government running efficiently to take care of these things...... Uhhhhh.. Wait a minute..... President Bush spent the billions of dollars to fight somebody else's war on the other side of the planet. There's no money left for us. So shut the government down. There's nothing for them to do except spend money we don't have. If we like the change we might just keep it that way.

Ardose  | Monday, September 24, 2007 |  04:53 PM




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