Shutdown and No Hope For Compromise

The United States National Government has been shutdown for two days now. After the members of Congress failed to reach an agreement on the national budget. Republican Representative Mark Meadows from North Carolina has been blamed for causing the shutdown. Along with his fellow conservative Republicans. They are demanding that Obama’s Affordable Care Act “ObamaCare” be defunded or delayed. Which is causing them to refuse to pass a clean spending plan. President Obama is currently refusing to budge on urging his fellow Democrats to compromise with Meadows and other Tea Party members. For now he is leaving it in the hands of the Congressmen and women to solve there own mess. Many Americans doubt though that their Congressional leaders are willing to compromise with one another. After the shutdown many tax paying government official’s were furloughed or sent home without pay. Without the funds to pay their employees government agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were forces to notify certain employees that they are furloughed. Forcing more Americans to file for unemployment pay which will hardly cover their bills. The tragedy behind this fact is that these hard working men and women. Who do what their job requires them to do have to go home and tell there families that finances will be tight. While their Congressional leaders get to go home like nothing has changed because on friday they will still be getting a paycheck. They will all still be getting paid for everyday that our government is shutdown. Many of them have told reporters that they plan on donating the money they get paid to help less fortunate Americans who are affected by the shutdown. Though I would not expect them to follow through with it. After all they failed to follow through their expectations listed with their job. Congressional leaders are supposed to pass laws and always keep the best interest of the people at heart. A National Government shutdown is not in the best interest of the people. It is not in the best interest of the thousands of Americas going without pay, the cancer patients waiting to sign up for programs to get treated, or the World War II veterans who put their lives on the line to protect our country only to not be able to visit their own memorial. The members of Congress should be ashamed at their inability to reach a compromise.

Republican Shutdown

As the Legislative branch comes to a close the extremist Republicans in the House and the Senate are awakening to try and complete any last attempts to shutdown President Obama’s health care reform. They are attempting to repeal, delay, or defund the bill at any cost. If they fail to complete that they will be forced to not pass the spending bill and refuse to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. Which The Editorial Board of The New York Times believes would be detrimental to our nation’s economy. This editorial is extremely persuasive. Its appeals to all citizens of our great nation. The Time's Editorial Board does a great job at proving how incompetent and corrupt the republican party has become. They are incapable of working together to help our nation prosper. Instead of being to pig headed and stuck in their own ways. They should all try to work together as a uniform party and work to release a clean spending bill and increase the debt. That is the only thing that can help our economy now. If the Tea Party Republicans use all their energy trying to hurt the health care reform. They will surely be hurting all U.S. citizens. No matter how hard the Republicans try the Democrats are never going to undo the law.  “Speaker John Boehner and Eric Cantor, the majority, had come up with a far-fetched scheme to placate the radicals in their coalition by attaching a provision to the spending resolution that would force the Senate to vote on defunding health reform,” wrote the Editorial Board. Boehner and Cantor are attempting to trick the extremists so they will leave the heath care law alone. Even though they know that the Senate would never approve something with that type of health care limitations. Boehner and Cantor just understand the necessity “prevent a shutdown.” 

Independent

Everyone always assumes that people from Texas are die hard republicans. Though for some reason they always forget that the capital city Austin is a thriving democratic community. Myself I was raised in a nice suburban neighborhood located in Southwest Austin called Circle C. I was fortunate enough to have a liberal mother and a republican father; which gave me mixed views on everything. Politically I associate with 13% of the public with a typology group of post-modern. I am not positive I agree with that verdict since it was determined by an online quiz. On the quiz the statements to choose from were so generic and polar opposite that it did not allow for the quiz to determine the tester's true opinion. For example on question nine I had to choose between the following statements,"Poor people today have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return," or "Poor people have hard lives because government benefits don't go far enough to help them live decently." I choose the first statement because I know some people who take advantage of our governments benefit packages. I do not feel as though the poor have it easy. I believe our nation makes it too easy for someone to present themselves as poor or needy. Enabling the masses to take advantage of government benefits. I also believe that big business is bad. Though after taking Economics I understand that though big businesses are corrupt they do enable our economy to function correctly. I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. Presently, there are many different interpretations various religious beliefs. The last thing I believe our nation needs to do is create laws and govern its citizens based off of a really old book. Those are a few of my political opinions. As for my party affiliation I like to consider myself an Independent.

Obama administration pulling a move from the Bush administration. Will this lead to another war?

President Barack Obama, recently met in Russia with a group of 20 nations for a United Nations summit on Friday, September 7th. Concerning whether or not to act against the Syrian President Bashar Assad. Assad as murdered his own citizens with the use of chemical weapons. The United Nations Security Council decided against military intervention in Syria. After the summit Obama acknowledged that the U.N. has been an obstacle for him; says Guy Taylor reporter for The Washington Times. Obama has decided that the United States will intervene in Syria. Obama has started assembling a coalition of willing nations to take down Assad. This article is not very interesting. Though I still feel as though it is necessary that all U.S citizens become aware of the situation in Syria, and how it will affect our nation in the long run. We are still trying to get out of Iraq. The last thing our government needs to do is join into another war. I believe it could cost us more then we have to give right now.