I need to express this concern, and I don’t think any of my friends would understand, and probably get unnecessarily worried/upset.
The only paycheck in the family is mom’s, from a government job. She’s on furlough. Â We can survive a missed paycheck or two, but that’s it. Â I can’t find work and have issues that limit what sort of work I can even do. Dad couldn’t be bothered to help support the family and instead just spends money.
I have enough trouble upstairs when I’m fed, warm, have my meds, basic health care, and all those other benefits of living in a first world country, even being all of upper lower class.
The government shutdown nonsense has me very very worried worried.
I made the mistake of reading that if this shit isn’t resolved soon enough, it could plummet things into another Great Depression.
I don’t want to live during something like that. Â I’m thinking if things take that drastic of a turn, I’m not going to stick around long.
Has this crossed anyone else’s mind? Does this worry anyone else?
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Gov’t shutdown my ass. Governments don’t just shut down. I’m sure they’ll pull a miracle out of their asses, or out of someone else’s asses (ours, for example), and everything will be “fine.”
And in case you hadn’t noticed, there’s already a depression happening.
The way the “mainstream media” (mis)represents things, is almost never the way things actually are. Compare both “official” news media, and “alternative” media, and see how different their perspectives are… and then attempt to see the gap full of stuff neither of them show. That’s the hard part.
Yeh I noticed. I can’t find work, food is unholy expensive. We barely scrape by. :/
I’m eager to see the result of this, perhaps this is just the wake up call people need.
Is something going on? I haven’t been reading the news lately. Maybe I should catch up.
Maybe their staging another “event.” And then they can use “the shutdown,” and its causes (which i’m sure is somehow our fault), as the scapegoat representing an even more strict authoritarian state.
I guarantee the IRS, NSA, DEA, DHS, etc., will not “shut down.”
I seem to recall something like this either happening, or almost happening, years ago…
I think its a distraction personally…. to keep people panicked and worried while they carry out an agenda….the depression is going to get worse either way it goes
gah, they’re*
That seems probable and reasonable CN.
@clever annoying isn’t it? I find myself doing that too much
Yeah the alphabet boys never shut down ….ever
It’s not the shutdown that will cause a recession/depression … that will hurt some sectors of government employees although they did pass a bill to pay back pay retro to the beginning of the shutdown … it will also hurt citizens who depend on the services provided by the sectors of government that are actually shuttered.
No, the real problem is the “debt ceiling” limit … congress must raise this in order for our country to pay our debts otherwise our credit rating goes down and interest rates go up as they do for any other borrower who exhibits difficulty repaying loans … this will also harm bond holders throughout the world effecting more than just the USA
banker dawg
I don’t give a shit what the government does! Just in case anyone was thinking to themselves.. “Hmm.. I wonder what RT thinks about the shut down?”
😉 no sweat off my balls, my state can take care of itself!
It’s like in SimCity, when you have to take out a third bond to pay off the remainder of the first two, but you don’t have enough funding left to keep all the services turned on, so the only way to keep your city in the black, is to turn off hospitals, schools, police, tourism, and crank taxes up, which will cause chaos and death, but keep your city from collapsing entirely, and will allow you to ride the wave of obscene taxes until your next funding date…
But what it really means is that you’re doomed, because you’re relying on more and more credit to pay for a city that isn’t making enough money, because the people aren’t educated properly, and are unhappy, and aren’t buying everything you need them to buy… and so you just keep borrowing to pay off the previous borrow, gradually losing population and mayor rating, unless you have some sort of valuable resource, like oil, that you can establish a “quick and dirty” way of turning land and labor into dollars and /sense/. (but ofc, oil causes pollution, and needs hazmat trucks for oil-related fires… so is compromising the health and livelihood of your sims worth it?)
My point is that raising the debt ceiling isn’t a real solution. They’re basically just making more dollars and trying to pay off more debts, before the debtors figure out the dollars aren’t worth what they thought, at the time that more debt was forgiven, than should have been. They’re trying to stay ahead of a curve… but it’s a curve that inevitably leads to collapse, and is not sustainable. They inflate to create more units of currency, in attempt to pay off more debt, but then those units aren’t worth as much, so the debt is way more next time. It just keeps going. Eventually the U.S. Gov’t will owe (and will try to say it’s actually the civilians who owe), FAR more than anyone could ever pay off (and many would argue we have already reached and blown past that threshold…). Then what? What happens after that? We’re just in-debt forever? Everyone stops using the dollar and it starts a world war?
Anyway, all of this has been a long time coming. Despite the obviousness of non-sustainability and exponentially exploding debt, things continue in mostly the same ways which got us into this mess… and everyone who has any power to change anything, seems to simply pretend it’s all fine. But it isn’t.