Shutdown doesn't impact those who caused it

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Wednesday, October 16. 2013

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By Walter Geiger

If you ask our fat cat ‘voices’ in Washington who is at fault for the government shutdown all you will get is partisan finger pointing. The Democrats don’t want to cut federal spending or the size of government. They buy votes with entitlements. The Republicans don’t want Obamacare, the rollout of which has been an unmitigated disaster by any measure.

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#1 Robert Heiney on 10/18/13 at 11:11 PM

When you consider that some 90+% of the unconsitutional EPA was considered, "non-essential", and some 800,000 federal bloatees were furloughed; you begin to get the big picture. The federal government exists to rob from one diminishing group of suckers (148,000,000 now receive a monthly federal check), to then hand over the loot to an increasing number of non-producers in exchange for votes.

While the Tea Party was excorciated for their influence on the shut-down; who else stood in the gap for working Americans? In the end, the government royalty permitted essentially unlimited increases in the debt ceiling, they funded Obamacare, they blessed themselves with their own exception from Obamacare, and they handed your money over to 800,000 furloughed federal bloatees.

The Tea Party and you lost. The big government hogs won.

Remeber who the real dopes are here. Those who raised the debt ceiling and handed you over to the Obamacare regime.

#2 Lynda Frost on 10/19/13 at 10:58 AM

Very good article...and so very true..

#3 Julia Heidbrink on 10/21/13 at 04:23 PM

The tea party didn't lose :) We saw a lot happen in the shutdown, led by those heroes, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and others. We need more of them!!! As long as people keep voting in men and women with no more scruples than to sell us out for a couple billion of perks for their states (think McConnell), nothing will get much better....

Walter, those in Washington right now, for the most part, do not care about us. Phil Gingrey is a good example, complaining about the salary he earns as a representative (a paltry $172,000!). We need to elect better leaders, men and women of integrity such as Ted Cruz!

My husband and I have spent a lot of time trying to navigate the new insurance rules, which are now so cumbersome that it's almost a joke.... down to asking what gender he is, and the same question for me...lol.

There are a lot of people who will come to understand that the GOP is correct in their constant fight to defund Obamacare (a big cause of the shutdown) when they try to sign up, or when they decide not to get insurance and find out that the fine is not necessarily $95.

Men and women of integrity are needed. Democrat or Republican is not the important part. Integrity is! We just saw our government doing its level best to make life miserable for all of America. It is time for that to end.

No, the tea party is not, and has not been, ineffective. We just have not got enough men and women in Congress yet to change things...

Julia

#4 Tom Rauch on 10/21/13 at 07:41 PM

I just had a guest from Japan. He represents a Japanese audio manufacturer. His company is pulling all their money out of US dollars, and putting reserves in gold and most of the working capital in Chinese Yaun.

They now keep an absolute minimum in US dollars, just enough to service USA and Canadian expenses.

This is not unique. This is the trend all over the world.

A restaurant in Macon refused to serve him wine because he did not have a USA ID.

They had Ted Cruz on a TV. He kept asking if Cruz was mentally ill, and why we elect people like that. When Cruz promised another shutdown, he said "we did the right thing moving money out of dollars. I hope I can fly home."

Near the end of the meal five or six big husky drag queens, who looked like they might have been basketball players prior to the makeover, sat down at the next table.

Makes a person wonder. We can't serve a 50 year old Japanese resident wine because he doesn't have a USA ID, he had to listen to a nut saying shutting down the Government was good regardless of how it affects our citizens and the rest of the world, he was worried the air controllers would quit work, and he got to see the Globe Trotters in Drag get alcohol without showing any ID.

#4.1 Robert Heiney on 10/22/13 at 11:42 PM

When you refer to Ted Cruz as a "nut", might I remind you that Cruz was using the proper power of Congress in an effort against raising the federal debt limit. The insanity has to stop and this is the job of the House of Representatives.

US debt has grown $1 trillion in the period from September 2012 to September 2013. US national debt is over $17 trillion while US tax revenue is approximately $2.74 trillion. This sends a clear message to other countries that the US is unable to manage its debt and finances. The US financial position increasaingly looks like Cyprus, Greece, and Spain. Clearly not a reponsible and stable nation but a spendthrift bankrupt nation.

In fact, if the US federal government was a business, it would be declared bankrupt and its officers and directors would be behind bars.

The US dollar will soon lose its reserve currency status and most countries know this. When that happens the US will fall into economic collapse.

The only people who are mentally ill are those who insist on running the US economy into the ground - not the Ted Cruz's of the US who valiantly try to stop it.

#4.1.1 Steven Epps on 10/23/13 at 08:11 PM

Amen, Mr. Heiney and well said.

#5 lynn mccollough on 10/21/13 at 09:22 PM

How many Americans can afford obamacare--I know of 1 person that got through $1200 a month and $3000 deductible or they could have gone with the $800 a month and $6000 deductible---real affordable don't you think and I was complaining about my premiums going up by $122 a month I'll hush---do not see too many folks signing up for government care---its not affordable and I wish he's quit saying stuff was free nothing the government offers is free the working folks are paying for theirs and everyone else

#6 Tom Rauch on 10/22/13 at 11:04 AM

That sounds like a bunch of bologna. Try it yourself.

Right now I pay around $900 for a PPO BC/BS plan for one person (since I whittled it down and dropped dental).

I just got through instantly and a Humana Silver plan that covers 90% of costs is $647.68 for two people with no income discount.

The HMO BC/BS 90% plan is $667.34

These are without dental, like my existing plan, except my existing plan is 80% and not 90% .

I don't believe or trust any of the "rumors" by people. I think the insurance companies and certain groups of people are working hard to make things seem worse than they are.

#6.1 Robert Heiney on 10/22/13 at 11:49 PM

In a truly free country, you could buy your Government Subsidized Health Care Plan and I wouldn't have to.

But the socialists love to drag people to the desk, shine a bright light on their face, and force them to do their bidding.

That's the socialist idea of "equality".

Of course, the government socialist royalty doesn't have to lower themselves to buy their royal health insurance from the peasant health exchanges. They have their own special health plans JUST FOR THEM.

And "mentally ill" Ted Cruz also tried to put a stop to that during the phony shut-down and failed - thanks to a cozy group of Republicrats and Demuplicans.

Thanks Isakson & Chambliss!

#7 Steven Epps on 10/23/13 at 08:36 PM

Mr. Geiger, I totally agree with your opinion, and being a Vietnam Marine Corps vet, and my Daddy was a WWII vet as a paratrooper in the 508th Parachute Regiment attached to the 82nd Airborne Division, "All Americans", and jumped behind the German lines on June 6, 1944 and fought through France, Belgium, Holland and to Victory in Frankfurt, Germany and stood Honor Guard for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and my Daddy's feet had severe frostbite at the Battle of the Bulge. I come from a long line of Patriots in many of my ancestor families to the Rev. War and have many relatives in the last 70 or less years that have served in the Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy.

I despise the way they treated the WWII veterans and any veterans who were trying to see the memorials in D.C.

Cpl. of Marines, USMC 1968-72,and USAFReserve Ssgt. 1982-86.

#7.1 Robert Heiney on 10/24/13 at 10:40 AM

Thank you Steven for you and your Dad's service to our country. While most citizens were sitting around letting the nation slide into Communism - you were fighting it.

I'm not worthy to be a Marine but may I say it:

Semper Fi!

#7.1.1 Steven Epps on 10/26/13 at 08:06 PM

Thank you Sir for the compliment, we Marines never had many back then if at all. I am still amazed that we have these brave young men who still join the Marine Corps these days with this severe lack of leadership we have these days.

Semper Fi, and it means "Always Faithful" to those who may not know.

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