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Friday Forum - April 8, 2011
What are your thoughts on a potential federal government shutdown due to the Democrats’ inability to meet the Republicans proposed spending cuts that are necessary to decrease our national deficit?
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Permalink Reply by J. Roane on -
Meet the terms we elected you for or shut down the government one or the other. For when the Fed shuts down the citizens remain free and unencumbered with needless laws and regulations. When the Fed is in session the citizens continue to lose the very freedoms of the US Constitution we fought and died for.
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Permalink Reply by Maureen Heather Keeler on
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The democrats should reconsider wasteful spending. There is no need for a goverment shutdown we have got to get back to basics on the budget. I think republicans are being more reasonable about the cuts they are proposing. It is time for the democrats to compromise if they do not we will lose everything this country has worked so hard to acheive.
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Permalink Reply by Dianne Edmondson on
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The sticking points aren't even dollars -- according to Harry Reid. It's ideology -- the hypocritical Dems don't want to remove federal tax dollars from funding abortions in DC -- even though for FY 96 through FY 09 Dems and Repubs alike agreed to that. It is settled public policy which Obama undid in FY09 and should now be reinstated without any major heartburn. But we will have to stand firm on that and also on the other ideological point: funding for EPA which is trying to "sneak" global warming theories and practices into our society even though Congress rejected them last session. We need to stand firm and be tough! Otherwise we risk losing our gains in 2012 let alone taking the Senate and White House
Dianne Edmondson
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Permalink Reply by Patricia Ryan on
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Absolutely!
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Permalink Reply by Patricia Ryan on
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The Republicans had better hold strong on this. That's why we sent them there. The cuts they have requested are completely reasonable. The Democrats want to continue to tax and spend us into an economically paralyzed, socialist country. And when we object, they paint conservatives with the "cold, heartless, uncaring" brush. Anyone who wants to grow the government and take away the will of the people to strive for excellence and reap the rewards for which they have toiled does not "care" about the very people they purport to be concerned about. That is why "liberalism is a lie" is my favorite phrase. It describes it so beautifully and yet succinctly.
My word of advice to the Republicans is that we are watching you and expect you to do the job you've been sent to do. Saving the country is not for the faint of heart. Reach around every now and then and feel your backbone. Then make sure you're using it.
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Permalink Reply by Cathy Jenkins on
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It's grandstanding at our expense. The Dems couldn't pass a budget even when they were in total control....now they want to balk ,......we must take a hard line stand...but I am all for stopping their paychecks until something is done....to make sure our service people have theirs!!
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Permalink Reply by Mary Harrell-Paul on -
Congress was designed to have conflicts and disagreement and the only way to pass a budget is through negotiations. However, I think if the government shuts down a strong message will be sent to the people and in Washington that the people of this nation are concerned with our future and agree that decreasing our national deficit is extremely important to the U.S. economy and our national safety. As Americans we have enjoyed prosperity and peace due to our strong economy. This is something that we must maintain for our national security and future and we must curb our spending. It may be that everybody must sacrifice a little to achieve this. As a nation we must strive together and be strong.
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Permalink Reply by Sandy Hutton on -
Those that were elected in 2010 were sent to Washington to do this very thing: get spending under control. Households all over America have had to cut spending and sometimes cut in some very tough places. Why should our Government be any different? Republicans must have a thick skin and disregard the unwarranted and unfair criticism of those that both, want to politicize this issue and that refuse to face the realities of our dilemma. Period.
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Permalink Reply by Elaine Magliacane on -
The DEMOCRATS want a shut down... they THINK it will be like Newt and Clinton.. in 1994 and that Obama will get re-elected if they 'blame' the shut down on the republicans... NEWS FLASH it isn't 1994 any more.... and people realize the the DEMOCRATS should have passed this budget LAST YEAR... so this shutdown is their fault... totally. The republicans in the house should STAND firm... because the BIG FIGHT is going to come over the Paul Ryan budget... we MUST win this one or we will NEVER get the Ryan budget passed.
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Permalink Reply by Nyla Y. Morrison on -
Sen. Reid should have allowed the Senate to vote on the temporary CR to insure defense spending through Sept. 2011.
Speaker Boehner is right to stand firm on getting the spending cuts deemed necessary by the American voters last November.
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Permalink Reply by Maureen Heather Keeler on
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This is not the prodical son story with this much wasteful spending. Remember the story about inheritence the person that worked the hardest got nothing in return at first but wound up inheriting everything. We can not risk it all with a prodical in the white house. Our debt needs to be repaid and the democrats need to do what is right for our country.
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Permalink Reply by MG Waddell on
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It infuriates me to think that our Congress finds funding Planned Parenthood's murderous agenda and the job-killing EPA to be more important than supporting our troops who are risking (and losing!) their lives overseas, not to mention their spouses and children who anxiously await their return home.
The Declaration of Independence tells us, "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
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