Looks that way to me – but I’d be willing to bet that Oblama and company won’t consider it a crisis yet – they will want to be out of office before it becomes a crisis.

Raggs,
correctimundo!!!

I agree. In fact, I’m waiting for some governor to publically say, “Okay, our state is bankrupt. Do we simply shut everything down and send everyone home or does someone want to see if we can save some of what we have?”

(I say “governor” simply because I don’t believe we have any President or Presidential hopeful who is brave enough to do it.)

Well folks, if jopa disapproves of my posts, I must be on the right track!!!

they’re polling people with land lines. that’d be those elderly people who don’t care for or know how to use cell phones and computers, those elderly people who are afraid they won’t get their social security payments or medicare if there’s a shut down because they heard that would happen on the msm news. my dad used to ask me why i had to rock the boat, why i couldn’t just go along to get along. people like him are whom they’re polling.

Ditto!

I second and third the motion, shut the Dammed goverment down, tell them to find a new job….in Mexico

WHAT BORDER CONTROLS 45 CAL? iT SEEMS THE BORDER IS WIDE OPEN TO ANYONE WHO WALKS OVER IT, EVEN THE DRUG CARTELS! AND THAT IS FINE WITH THE DESTROYER AND HIS MINONS!

Funny,,, What border control?

Right on .45, but you forgot one.

11) The government may spend no more than it collects. No more FED bailouts or cozy krap with the banks.

I’m tired of being used to line the bankers pockets ala the “Matrix”.

45caliber,
What about the border fence that the funding was already in place for and they spent it elsewheres???? These A$$holes will take from peter to pay paul!!

i just got off the phone with boehner’s office. i asked when he’s up for reelection. 2012. i asked if he knows that the tea party will take him out if he compromises. she said yes. apparently, he’s getting a lot of calls and emails. i also called my worthless democrat congressman and asked his office, if not now, when are we going to cut the budget? she had no answer. i’ve been asking for 2 years to be told when he’ll be in san antonio at a public venue where i can ask him my questions personally since i can’t get a good answer from him with emails and phone calls. she said she’d have his scheduling secretary call me. ha. been 2 long years, so i doubt i’ll hear from her. ask your reps when they’ll be at a venue near you. ask the hard questions in a public forum where he/she can’t avoid answering.

I agree Dr. we cannot keep compromising with the left because they lie and any compromise will be used against us at election time.

A GOP compromise: “Well, if you will vote for my piece of trash, I’ll vote for yours.”

A Dem compromise: “You MUST vote for whatever piece of trash I want.”

A liberal compromise: “I am in charge (even if not elected) and you must do whatever I say.”

A conservative compromise: “Cut back to a balanced budget, pay off the debt, and then we’ll talk about anything else you might want.”

Time:

One problem I have is that when Congress “buys” something, we are the ones who end up paying for it, whether it is good or bad. And, whether is it good or bad, they never bother to get rid of the bad.

Could our Representatives kindly lay all the cards on the table and let us know what is going to be cut and what is not going to be cut. There isn’t much chance of a shutdown and we’ve all heard this before. What bills are out there that will make those deep cuts and who’s got bills presented to Congress that will add to the deficit?

sc,
There can always be questions about how the polls were constructed, but there are also questions to be asked about the reporting. The question posed to those being polled was,

“As you know, if the Republicans in congress and President Obama do not agree on spending goals by March 4th, the government will have to shut down all it’s nonessential services until a budget is passed. What would you like the people in Washington who represent your views on the budget to do in this situation? Should they — [Hold for the basic budget plan they want, even if that means the government shuts down, (or should they) agree to a compromise budget plan, even if that means they pass a budget you disagree with?]”

Now look at how it is reported here.

“Seven out of 10 surveyed Democrats favored a compromise, compared to about 49 percent of Republicans.”

Yep, that’s true enough, but it implies that Republicans might favor holding out by a slight margin. In fact, only 42% called for holding out. It also fails to mention that Independents favor compromise 61% to 32%. Ad how about the claim that

“Only about one in four Americans said that the GOP’s proposal goes too far in slashing Federal spending.”

Why not tell the whole story? 25% feel the Republicans have gone too far, another 25% feel they’re about right, and 37% said they did not go far enough! Was that not worth mentioning? Of course, the real question is not whether or not the cuts go far enough, but from where the cuts come. I’m all for cutting our budget, but I’d like to start by ending these wars that have broken the bank. I’d also like an explanation as to why I have to bail out the banks when they have billions in holdings, but I have more money in my wallet than Bank of America has paid in taxes (here’s a hint, I have enough to buy a candy bar.)

“Good Show” Robin ! Your comment goes to the Heart of Matter – Circumvent the never-ending DRAMA of POLY TICS and Forge Full Steam Ahead as any “normal family” would have NEED to do in a financial crisis !

The problem is that Americans don’t really want to balance the budget, and the politicians know this.

Here is a few of the “sacred cows”:

1. Medicaid
2. Medicare
3. Social Security
4. Unemployment Benefits
5. Military
6. Environmental Agencies
7. Federal Funding of Education

And the list goes on, but I think in these seven there should be at least one sacred cow of government spending that everyone of us will prostrate ourselves before. “Cut all spending but this!” Be it military, or social security, or education. It really doesn’t matter. The issue is then that we all have a different selection of sacred cows of spending that we refuse to budge on and so when the politicians get together, no one is willing to honestly tell us that we must ALL give up our sacred cows. Instead, they try to bargain with each other to keep us all happy so we will reelect them (or simply not lynch them when they come home from DC). And thus, no cuts are really made….

So I hear people say that they want a fiscally responsible government and then I will almost always read in the arguments someone saying that because I want spending cut that I must be out to kill grandma and grandpa, that I am only thinking of myself because I don’t want those people who paid into social security, medicaid and medicare to get their money back. I want to scream sometimes because of the apparent stupidity. The cycle will never end until someone is willing to take responsibility to end the cycle. As such, I am torn between wanting the cycle to end peacefully because we matured as a people, and wanting the cycle to accelerate until its ultimate end. Yes, I did say accelerate. I know the cycle will end. There is no “if”, “and”, or “but” about it. Either we walk away from our foolishness now, or we continue down the path until we fall off the proverbial cliff. So sometimes I wish the American people would just get this over with and just jump off the cliff into the rocks below like we seem so determined to do. And while our bones will be broken, at least we can try and get to the healing sooner….

I’ll keep it sweet and blunt.

We’re broke

too broke to put solar panels all over the nation
too broke to pursue ethanol and ethanol fueled cars
too broke to pay for fancy private schools with public school funds
too broke to even help out other nations as we can barely help ourselves.
Too broke to give teachers and other government workers a raise.

We’re broke,broke,broke.

I think we should shut it down, strip the budget to the bare bones and start doing what we should of done along time ago…

make more American goods
start drilling for more oil
and paying down our debts.

NO more diluted funny money to pay for things we can no longer afford.

if we don’t move away from all the “me me me” we’re gonna find out we’re gonna loose the “we we we” in we the people, cause we wont have a nation for all,it will be more like a broke nation dissolved and gone.

I don’t want a shut down,but I don’t want another bail out on our dime either. It didn’t work the first time and it won’t work this time either.