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bluemarkers

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3. well the Hoover institute blames.... lol
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 05:08 PM
Oct 2013

some lamebrain on my FB page had the nerve to post something by the Hoover Institute (Sowell - of course born in North Carolina, can we send him back?) as a complete and unbiased summation of why the Democrats and Obama are to blame for this....

http://www.hpe.com/opinion/x559273386/Thomas-Sowell-Who-shut-down-the-government

"If Sen. Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run Obamacare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility.
You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government.
When Barack Obama keeps claiming that it is some new outrage for those who control the money to try to change government policy by granting or withholding money, that is simply a bald-faced lie. You can check the history of other examples of “legislation by appropriation” as it used to be called.
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Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt."

lord have mercy, it sounds so logical


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