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Yes it's horrible and childlish. Politicians use hundreds of thousands of citizens as bargaining chips instead of just figuring out how to work together. If it
by snek 8y ago
Yes it's horrible and childlish. Politicians use hundreds of thousands of citizens as bargaining chips instead of just figuring out how to work together. If it didn't happen so often, I would imagine there would be rioting. Unfortunately the status quo is to shut down the government whenever you don't get the exact budget you want.
- photoguy112 8y agoI don't see anything wrong with shutting down - less frivolous spending. Why should an idiot get funding to build a wall nobody wants? He's only harming himself.
- pbourke 8y agoPlease don’t make the claim that “both sides” are responsible for or prolonging this shutdown. The House passed a series of bills that are essentially the same as the ones given unanimous consent in the Senate last month in order to provide for government funding. Those bills passed by the House include substantial funding for border security. All sides are in agreement about the necessity of border security. A single side and a small group of men on that side are holding the lives of 800k federal workers and the lives, health and prosperity of the public at ransom. They’re doing this in order to get a cheap political “win” for a border wall. A wall that will be ineffective and will never be built even if they’re handed the money to build it, due to the enormous ecological, logistical and legal barriers to do so.
- jakeogh 8y agoNo worries, it will be the Dems that "end" the shutdown when they fund the peaches.