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US Government shutdown averted

This situation comes up regularly and it seemsd a stupid measure foisted upon the long suffering public.
The situation must be tackled differently.
Sure, I do not have the answer. One thing is clear, the US services will shut down again and again in the years to come.
Why don't the public not vote for those politicians who keep voting against funding the Government?
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Broache73 · 51-55, F Best Comment
A Real Shutdown would make our lives easier, we'll rid ourselves of that Woolly Mammoth without the Charm known as the American Empire and the Welfare Warfare State. The US Taxpayers and Consumers would get that Money back and wouldn't have to pay for it anymore.

How to correctly squander your Wealth;

• Send your Sons and Daughters off to fight appallingly Ignorant and profoundly Incompetent Wars for Oil, Wars of Aggression, Wars of Attrition, and Wars of Subsidization that Political Indentured Servants nor THEIR Corporate paymasters, Corporate Friends, and Family never fight nor ever send their Families to fight...

• Continue to be forced to pay Taxes, pledge Allegiance, and a Phony Patriotism to the same US Government who cares nothing of your Posterity but forces you to pay for your own Austerity...

• Blindly trust the Federal Reserve who caused the Inflation we have now by Inflating the Money Supply, who also financed the 2008 Corporate Bailouts to Foreign and Corporate Banks, Foreign Governments, and Corporate Stimulus Packages to the tune of $15+ Trillion Dollars but cannot get rid of Inflation nor Artificially Low Interest Rates within our own Borders...

• Blindly trust the US Government with the servicing of Healthcare, Education, and Future Retirements when this same Monstrosity cannot manage Sound Money, Balance its own Checkbook, nor Secure its own Borders...

Promises are always a comfort to baffling Fools, After all, Your US Congress made them...
GerOttman · 70-79, M
@Gusman Easy! Just get 40 million people to vote Libertarian...
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@Broache73 But the majority of Americans have not voted to defund government entirely. Why do politicians play silly games with other peoples' money and livelihoods?

On the 2007-8 financial crisis, most of us taxpayers in Europe are under the impression that we bailed out failing American institutions that had run riot after a decade of light-touch regulation. And I think it's all going to start again next year.
@Broache73
That's the price y'all pay to be called "American"! 😂

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
US Politics is a strange creature. We can argue about why, corruption, a fragmented society, or the representatives placing personal needs above community. But it just is.....Just because one side is bad, it doesnt make the other side any better, come next week. Our bent Pollies like Dutton, Angus Taylor, Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan are squeaky clean compared to even the mid range US people.😷
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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Gusman I couldnt agree more.. As i see it we have two broad options (and one advantage with our preferential voting system) First, vote for a minor candidate you do believe in, preferencing the least worst candidate ahead of the worst worst. Second, ingore the candidate, but vote for the party that stands for the issues that mean most to you, whatever they may be..Or sometimes it will be a negative trigger like voting against nuclear power..😷
One thing is clear: the House republicans repudiated tRump's demands!!

The package funds the government at current levels through March 14, and includes $100 billion in disaster aid and a one-year farm bill — while stripping out a debt limit extension demanded by President-elect Trump earlier in the week.

On Wednesday, Trump had threatened to primary “Any Republican” who voted for a funding bill without a debt limit extension; on Friday, 170 House Republicans did just that.

“We are really grateful that tonight, in bipartisan fashion, with overwhelming majority of votes, we passed the American Relief Act of 2025. This is a very important piece of legislation,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters after the vote. “It funds the government, of course, until March of 2025. That was a big priority for us.”
Because the public hates us progressives more than they want change. The Greens and Socialists run for office and the country votes against us, against peace and against socialism, for wars. Period! No sympathy.
MasterLee · 56-60, M
Congress betrayed us again
Gusman · 61-69, M
@MasterLee The situation is pathetic but the career politicians keep getting re-elected
markinkansas · 61-69, M
[media=https://youtu.be/OzvqfDPIONU]How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Casinos, Left Contractors Unpaid, Ruined Investors & Made Millions AND THE USA IS NEXT
I wonder who loaned the US $5Trillion this time around to pay the interest-owing on the first $36Trillion they borrowed? Wasn't me!
@22Michelle
I have no idea what you just wrote here. Please proof-read your work before submitting it!
22Michelle · 70-79, T
@swirlie That you just don't like the facts thag Trump is an extremely poor businessman doesn't change those facts.
@22Michelle
First of all, I am not a Trump supporter. Secondly, I asked you to proof-read your post before submitting it because there are spelling errors which make your post unintelligible and therefore lacking all meaning. Thirdly, you are correct in saying that Trump is an extremely poor businessman which he is and he's proven that fact several times through several bankruptcies, the last most notable bankruptcy being the 'Trump Atlantic City Casino' which was funded 100% with Russian money which he STILL owes to a single Russian Oligarch to this day.
22Michelle · 70-79, T
@GerOttman Right after you prove he does!
GerOttman · 70-79, M
@22Michelle Nope! You first.
22Michelle · 70-79, T
@GerOttman The fact that neither you, or anyone else, can prove the existence of god is my evidence. And the sad thing is that you know it!
ShenaniganFoodie · 36-40, M

 
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