Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years
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#2It's happening
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#310% approval rating for congress. Wow. But my congressman is great! /s
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#4\o/
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#5Even with all the money being printed by Fed (>80 billion usd per month!) there is not enough money for the biggest military+police government on Earth.
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#6I'm glad this was posted here, otherwise I never would have known.
Something all hackers should be paying attention to, certainly. Many implications for how we write our software, the future of networked communication and more.
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#7Even with all the money being printed by Fed (>80 billion usd per month!) there is not enough money for the biggest military+police government on Earth.
You have a lot of things mixed up. This isn't about not enough money. It's about Congress having to pass a budget in order to run the government. Maybe you're thinking of the debt ceiling?
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#8All the news sites in the world to choose from and the one that hits the front page is the one with interstitials before articles and broken, ugly design?
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#9In an office environment. If employees don't work well together they get fired. Why is there no accountability ?
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#10How significant is this though? A quick wikipedia search shows the government has shut down 18 times (including this one) since 1976.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown#Federal_gov...
In fact, the government shut down almost every year from 1976 to 1987 (only missing 1980 and 1985).