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Government Shutdown & US Global Leadership Standing
Topic Started: Oct 5 2013, 08:30 AM (205 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/05/world-us-government_n_4047613.html

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"The paralysis of the American government, where a rump in Congress is holding the whole place to ransom, doesn't really jibe with the notion of the United States as a global leader," ...
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VPG
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Yeah like Spain, France, Portugal, and other members of the Europian Union are all doing so good!
I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK!


"People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."
Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971

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Copper
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Shortstop

With a 2-bit thug you are going to have this kind of trouble. It will pass.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Mikhailoh
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Why? Because we don't have a dictatorial government?

This is a good thing overall. We should all be glad this can happen. It has happened 16 times before this without diminishing our standing. If that is happening it is more due to a president who shoots his mouth off and then gets his words rammed down his throat.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Mikhailoh
Oct 5 2013, 11:27 AM
Why? Because we don't have a dictatorial government?

This is a good thing overall. We should all be glad this can happen. It has happened 16 times before this without diminishing our standing. If that is happening it is more due to a president who shoots his mouth off and then gets his words rammed down his throat.
Sorta like that whole red line in the sand thingie.



Bye the way, How does one draw a red line in sand? Drawing a line with a stick I can understand.
But, a brush and a can of paint? An Aerosol can of paint? Hmmmmmm?
I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK!


"People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."
Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971

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John D'Oh
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Mikhailoh
Oct 5 2013, 11:27 AM
If that is happening it is more due to a president who shoots his mouth off and then gets his words rammed down his throat.
You're right, that Mission Accomplished banner was pretty stupid. And remember 'No More Taxes'? - what a complete dumbass. And how about 'I never had sex with that woman'?

I could go on :lol:
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
Axtremus
Oct 5 2013, 08:30 AM
Article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/05/world-us-government_n_4047613.html

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"The paralysis of the American government, where a rump in Congress is holding the whole place to ransom, doesn't really jibe with the notion of the United States as a global leader," ...
Maybe Putin can give Obama some direction on this as well.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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Mikhailoh
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The Barry Gulags. :lol2:
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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