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What Have We Become

What has happened to the country to come to where we are in Washington

By Joel Ross | Updated on October 01, 2013

So here we mere voters are left to watch the insane nonsense being put out by both groups of children in Washington. You would think we are watching a group of kids in the schoolyard who need a slap upside of the head. I won’t vote for Obamacare. I won’t even talk to you. I demand you not fund your legacy program. I won’t meet with you and we won’t even listen to you. My goodness.  What is this?  Surely not a functioning government.

The good news like the sequester is that it actually likely saves money and does not seem to affect the real world the rest of us inhabit. If this insanity continues for 5 or 6 days, it likely affects nothing we are doing other than making us embarrassed or furious or both. The problem is both sides are gearing up for the real battle over the debt limit and Obama is already refusing to even take a call from the Republicans.  My concern is people like Ted Cruz get their feedback from like minded idiots who egg him on, and Obama the same. Debbie Wasserman is like the wicked witch and likely tells him just say no. At least Clinton in 1995 talked to Dole and Newt and cut a deal, and a lot of very good things, like major welfare reform became law even though the liberals at the time predicted that 1 million children would go hungry and the same media talking heads as today repeated this nonsense. Welfare reform was the bet thing to happen to many of the poor welfare mothers and kids.  Many of those mothers went to work and got self esteem. No kids –none- went hungry.

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