I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the 144 Republicans that wanted the US to default. [spoiler]Aderholt Amash Amodei Bachmann Barr Barton Bentivolio Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Brady (TX) Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Broun (GA) Bucshon Burgess Campbell Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Conaway Culberson Denham DeSantis DesJarlais Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Farenthold Fincher Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Foxx Franks (AZ) Garrett Gibbs Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffith (VA) Hall Harris Hartzler Hensarling Holding Hudson Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan King (IA) Kingston Labrador LaMalfa Lamborn Lankford Latta Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Marchant Marino Massie McCaul McClintock Meadows Messer Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Mullin Mulvaney Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunnelee Olson Palazzo Pearce Perry Petri Pitts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Radel Reed Renacci Rice (SC) Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ross Rothfus Royce Ryan (WI) Salmon Sanford Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Smith (MO) Smith (TX) Southerland Stewart Stockman Stutzman Thornberry Turner Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Weber (TX) Wenstrup Westmoreland Williams Wilson (SC) Woodall Yoder Yoho[/spoiler] If any of them are your representative, PLEASE do not reelect them.

We should take the Republicans and push them somewhere else!

12.01 A nice time to pick right after the day starts. Then someone was woke up at 12.01 and woke up to the government shutdown. Also I live in Australia. Also... How the hell is 30-35 trillion dollars not enough?!?!? Australia has only 22 million with about 25 billion dollars

Catastrophe averted.....for now.

Looks like they've finally agreed to something.

Hourly reminder that this is at least mostly, if not completely the Republicans' fault. You can't lose an election, then less than a year later attach whole portions of your party platform (which were rejected in said election) to a bill in order to hold the government hostage and expect it to fly. Modifying a ludicrously unrealistic, impassable bill to make it slightly less ludicrous and impassable is not a "compromise".

If you think this is bad, just wait until we need to raise the debt ceiling before we default.

why we don't just implement universal healthcare, I do not know

So what's gonna happen now? Who's going to get their way when government resumes?

If this continues any longer, I'm calling that the Republicans lose House control.

[quote]“Republicans have to realize how many significant gains we’ve made over the last three years, and we have, not only in cutting spending but in really turning the tide on other things," Ross told The New York Times. "We can’t lose all that when there’s no connection now between the shutdown and the funding of Obamacare." "I think now it’s a lot about pride," he added.[/quote] -Dennis Ross So the average income of a federal employee is ~$78,500. One paycheck would then roughly be $3,720. Assuming the 80,000 federal workers have missed out on a paycheck, they've collectively missed out on $261,600,000. That's how much the pride of one man in congress is worth. If his colleagues agree that this is now about pride, then obviously that would be applicable to them as well. At this point I don't care who's fault it is, who started it, etc. The fact that families are no longer getting paid because one man's, or a group's pride is now at stake, is disgusting. Yes they will be paid retroactively, but the fact that we're even in this situation because of someone's pride baffles me. But I guess that's politics in a nutshell.

KHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN-gress

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I hope North Korea starts something, and America needs to go beat them up. Again. That way the government can do something it's good at. Destroying other countries that it doesn't like.

My cousins out of a job because of these assholes!!! I -blam!-ing hate the US government at times! Why the -blam!- can't these assholes agree on -blam!-ing ANYTHING?!!!?! My cousin lives in an apartment in DC. How the -blam!- is she supposed to pay for that, huh congress?! I got something to say for you sorry -blam!-s: -blam!- YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!

If the non essentials are going without pay why is congress still getting payed?

[b]GO CONGRESS[/b]

[quote]It continues to shock and amaze me that adult people in the modern age continue to indulge this sort of abject incompetence from their system of governance, and the people who are supposed to be in charge of it.[/quote] As if what the people thinks really plays into what they decide. They should loose 2 months pay for every day government is shut down.

How i see politics: *guy #1 enters room* Guy #1 "I just thought of a way to save money, solve 99% of all problems effectively and without costing much!" *Guy #2 slams hands on table and quickly jumps up out of seat" Guy #2 "I disagree!" Guy #1 "But.. I haven't explained my idea yet..." Guy from 3rd row, 5 seats to the left "Bullshit!" *everyone in entire room starts arguing*

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If only you had socialism...

Perfect time for an Invasion don't you think? jk jk But seriously I still wonder if US and Britain are just made of dumb politicians.