Message, To the GOP and the Tea Potty.
How many times will the GOP attempt to destroy America and bring her to her knees? Well here we go again, they are holding a gun to America's head today. They are demanding that we relinquish everything that we voted for in 2008 and again in 2012. They are holding America in contempt. They are willing to let people die by taking away their right to affordable health care. They have their's so everyone else be damned!
They are shutting down the government, at a great expense to federal workers who will be denied a paycheck. These are not members of the 1%. These are workers that have husbands, wives and children to support. Will their bills stop demanding to be paid. Hell no. I am happy to hear that SS payments will continue, I myself am not affected by this, yet many of my loved ones are. The GOP is in fact trying to overturn the last election with their unprecedented demands. Listen up you fools, you lost that election! Get the hell over it!
Your past history says so much about your idiotic demands and your grave concerns on how Obamacare will be paid for. Over spending is now a concern for you all? Oh please! How do you spell Hypocrite?
You gave kudos and accolades Reaagun for tripling the deficit, yeah! You swooned over him and still do. Go team!!!
You cheered GWB and his band of merry men. Remember them? The ones that took us into two wars, one that was completely unrelated to 9/11. You let them throw a credit card on the table and said go for it! The card had a zero amount of funds on it. You hid that under the table. You lied to us.
George Walker Bush and all the rest of the GOP nearly brought America to it's knees. Our economy was on the brink of disaster from your policies. You guys, yes I am speaking to you, Bush is gone yet you remain and are continuing to destroy America. Nothing new here, you refused to pay for the wars under Bush and you are refusing to pay for a budget you approved now. It's the job of congress to set the budget and then pay its bills when due, yet once again you prove to be dead beat dads! You refuse to meet your obligations. You refuse to do your job! You refuse to pay for what you have spent. You are beneath contempt!
What the hell took you so long to get mad? Oh yeah, I got it. We have twice elected a black President.
One that is actually making progress for real hard working Americans and you just can't now or ever get over that.
You would be pitiful if I had one ounce of pity left in me.
In conclusion the answer to this mess is get out there and vote! It's that simple, go vote. No whining that you are disappointed and disillusioned. We can not just sit back and say never mind, my vote doesn't matter. We can not simply sit back and say that I will only vote for the left of the left of center. Look where we are at when the GOP voted for the right of the right of the right of center. Yup they got themselves a Tea Potty, a group so frighteningly extreme that America now stands with a gun at her head.
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for a righteous rant! 
I don't like them very much, does it show?
Great OP from your heart, she.. Thank you!
"66 questions and answers about the government shutdown"
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20. Can I visit national parks? No. The National Park Service says day visitors will be told to leave immediately, and entrances will be closed.
22. Will Washington museums be open? The Smithsonian, the National Zoo and the Holocaust Museum would all be closed. Private museums, such as the Newseum, the Spy Museum and Mount Vernon, would remain open. Rule of thumb: If it's usually free, it's probably closed
.32. Would a shutdown put the brakes on implementing the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare?" No. The state-run exchanges for the uninsured would open as scheduled Tuesday. "The marketplaces will be open on Tuesday, no matter what, even if there is a government shutdown," President Obama said Friday.
33. Why not? Like Social Security or Medicaid, Obamacare is a permanent entitlement that isn't subject to annual funding by Congress. "Many of the core parts of the health care law are funded through mandatory appropriations and wouldn't be affected," Gary Cohen, the Health and Human Services Department official overseeing the health care rollout, said last week.
41. What will happen to veterans receiving compensation for service- or combat-related wounds and injuries? The Department of Veterans Affairs said if the shutdown continues into late October, it will run out of money for compensation and pension checks to more than 3.6 million veterans who rely on the money to support themselves.
50. How many federal employees would be furloughed? The government has not given an official estimate.
56. And the president's personal aides? The White House has 90 staffers who work in the residence. During a shutdown, 15 of them would stay on the job.
61. Would active-duty military be paid during a shutdown? If a shutdown lasts longer than a week, the Pentagon might not be able to process its payroll in time for the Oct. 15 paychecks, Defense Department Comptroller Robert Hale said Friday. The House passed a separate bill early Sunday that would appropriate money for active-duty and reserve paychecks regardless of the shutdown — and also pay for support services to make sure they get paid. That bill passed the House 422-0, but still must go to the Senate.
63. Would federal employees get paid retroactively, even if they didn't work? Maybe. Congress granted retroactive pay to furloughed workers after the shutdowns of the mid-1990s, but that wouldn't necessarily happen again. "I believe this time is going to be much different. This is a much different Congress than the 1995 Congress," said Cox, federal employee union president. "I'm not sure that they'd even want to go back and pay the people who worked."
64. How much money would a shutdown save taxpayers? Most likely, it wouldn't. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says shutdowns cost money in terms of contingency planning, lost user fees and back pay. A government estimate after the shutdown in 1995-96 estimated its cost at $1.4 billion.
65. What effect would a shutdown have on the economy? Economists say even a short shutdown — of three or four days — would begin to shave decimal points off economic growth. A sustained shutdown of three or four weeks "would do significant economic damage," economist Mark Zandi told USA TODAY.
The others..
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/29/questions-and-answers-about-the-shutdown/2888419/
