Timothy Egan: "Make 'Em Pay!"

[Iwillnevergiveup]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/opinion/egan-make-em-pay.html?src=recg

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"Real Americans, the wind-chapped toilers so often invoked by politicians in a phony froth, lost real money from the real pain inflicted on their livelihoods by the extortionists in Congress this month.

How much money? At least $24 billion was the estimate given by Standard & Poor’s. Small business was hit particularly hard. And it’s a rolling pain, affecting consumer confidence, that will be felt through a holiday buying season that can make or break many retailers."

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[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

1. They don't care if the peons...

...are hurt. Congress is a cancer eating at our society. Stay tuned, it's going to get weird.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. 2014

House cleaning.

[Brigid]

3. Rec for the first paragraph alone,

The one not included in the excerpt here. Click on the link and read it! "Jelly-bellied Republicans!"

[pscot]

5. well hell, let's just post it

Where do you go if you’re a “Deadliest Catch” kind of guy, manliest of manly men, but couldn’t fish for king crab because some jelly-bellied Republicans threw a tantrum 5,000 miles away and shut down the government?

What do you do if you’re a farmer in Kansas who could not put winter wheat in the ground or get this year’s cattle vaccine because your government agriculture office was deemed nonessential? Whom do you see about the home loan that was held up, the family restaurant near the federal building that couldn’t meet October’s payroll, the bookings lost at season’s end in dozens of national parks?

[yurbud]

4. that's why instead of calling it "Robin Hood" tax, they should call it restitution or reparation