Smitty-48 wrote:Ye olde phony baloney "government shutdown" play? Back in 1996 it might have seemed like a novelty, but that's just cranking the yawns up to 11 now.Hastur wrote:It sure is funny. The dems are going to try to ramp up the fear to 11. They have no other plan.
20 trillion in debt, 18 trillion of it in imaginary money, 250 billion in annual debt servicing, and the Democrats can't even get a panic whipped up properly, it's no wonder a reality tv star beat these clowns with ease.
The grumpy cats can screech "hyperinflation!" every fifteen minutes or so, but the opposition in congress can never so much as mention inflation never mind hyper.
People will die, how? In a total fiscal meltdown resulting in the collapse of the entire nation into violent chaos? No? Oh well, never mind then.
Meh. Government shutdowns have been going on in America since the 1970s. Nothing really new and the fact that both sides are playing it ups is also not new.