Which do you prefer? Drowning in debt or government shutdown
The fiscal year ends on September 31, and we need a new budget in order for the government to stay open starting October 1. We know that current budget projections call for ~$1T is deficit spending for the next few years before deficits (supposedly) will start coming down. Now is the time to call your congress-critters. Demand that they stop spending money that we don't have. It is better to shut the government down than to continue these massive deficits.
Read the rest at the link.Federal spending so far this year has already topped $3 trillion -- a new record for the first eight months of the year -- and Congress is once again coming up on an appropriations deal impasse.Let the shutdown hysteria begin. As Congress battles over the budget fine print, lawmakers on the left will insist the sky is falling. Don’t feed into the drama, and here’s why.
Shutdowns are not nearly as bad as Democrats will claim
The last partial federal shutdown amounted to nothing. The media was aflutter with concern over the shutdown’s impact on the economy, but gross domestic product growth in the first quarter of the year surpassed expectations at 3.2 percent.
Many on the left want you to believe people rioted in the streets, but society did not collapse. American consumers and small businesses resumed life as normal amid a resurgent economy. Besides some dirty bathrooms and overflowing trash cans in national parks (many of which were cleaned up by volunteers), most of the country remained unaffected.