"Parks and Museums Shutdown....now what?"

Cosmo

PJPOWER wrote:

"This land is your land, this land is my land"...until the government shuts down.

...
Was a high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was painted said: Private Property,
But on the back side it didn't say nothing —
This land was made for you and me.

One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple
By the Relief Office I saw my people —
As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if
This land was made for you and me.

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.

Jason P

ledvedderman wrote:

Jason P wrote:

This should be over soon. I hope all the furloughed government workers have been enjoying their soon to be paid vacations.

Sure they will get back pay, but to attribute this as a "paid vacation" is not fair. These folks have bills that are due NOW, not whenever they get paid back from the shutdown. I work for the government and I travel like crazy and it's all on my own dime until I get reimbursed...4 months later at the earliest.

Ok. Paid fiasco it is. :geek:

brianlux

As much as I hate to see the parks shut down I can't help but wonder how nice an peaceful a lot of those places must be right now. A sort of wild life holiday.

ajedigecko

brianlux wrote:

As much as I hate to see the parks shut down I can't help but wonder how nice an peaceful a lot of those places must be right now. A sort of wild life holiday.

Yep...if i lived close to one ... I would be there.

Just read that there should be far less taxes taken out next payroll. Seems logical.

brianlux

ajedigecko wrote:

brianlux wrote:

As much as I hate to see the parks shut down I can't help but wonder how nice an peaceful a lot of those places must be right now. A sort of wild life holiday.

Yep...if i lived close to one ... I would be there.

Just read that there should be far less taxes taken out next payroll. Seems logical.

OMG- imagine hiking into Yosemite with the place shut down and no one there. I'd be like John Muir II.

ajedigecko

brianlux wrote:

ajedigecko wrote:

brianlux wrote:

As much as I hate to see the parks shut down I can't help but wonder how nice an peaceful a lot of those places must be right now. A sort of wild life holiday.

Yep...if i lived close to one ... I would be there.

Just read that there should be far less taxes taken out next payroll. Seems logical.

OMG- imagine hiking into Yosemite with the place shut down and no one there. I'd be like John Muir II.

...canyonlands for me

brianlux

ajedigecko wrote:

...canyonlands for me

Oh man, yeah!

And Arches National Park! That place is so overrun these days that with no one there I'd think I'd of died and gone to heaven.

Jason P

Well, it's become apparant that Boehner had no backup plan heading into this standoff. Sort of like when Walter filled the briefcase full of his dirty undies and took off for the exchange with an uzi.

The only good light at the end of the tunnel is that this fiasco exposes the neocons and runs them out of office leaving a more centrest GOP ... wishful thinking

backseatLover12

Jason P wrote:

Well, it's become apparant that Boehner had no backup plan heading into this standoff. Sort of like when Walter filled the briefcase full of his dirty undies and took off for the exchange with an uzi.

The only good light at the end of the tunnel is that this fiasco exposes the neocons and runs them out of office leaving a more centrest GOP ... wishful thinking

the thing is, Faux News has been reporting for days that it's all Obama's and the Dems fault. So all those brainwashed republicans will never realize that their own party has been exposed.

http://americablog.com/2013/10/jon-stew ... tdown.html

EdsonNascimento

backseatLover12 wrote:

Jason P wrote:

Well, it's become apparant that Boehner had no backup plan heading into this standoff. Sort of like when Walter filled the briefcase full of his dirty undies and took off for the exchange with an uzi.

The only good light at the end of the tunnel is that this fiasco exposes the neocons and runs them out of office leaving a more centrest GOP ... wishful thinking

the thing is, Faux News has been reporting for days that it's all Obama's and the Dems fault. So all those brainwashed republicans will never realize that their own party has been exposed.

http://americablog.com/2013/10/jon-stew ... tdown.html

Make no mistake It's both sides fault Don't let the msnbc crowd convince you otherwise. Equal responsibility regardless of what either side says.

Smellyman

EdsonNascimento wrote:

backseatLover12 wrote:

Jason P wrote:

Well, it's become apparant that Boehner had no backup plan heading into this standoff. Sort of like when Walter filled the briefcase full of his dirty undies and took off for the exchange with an uzi.

The only good light at the end of the tunnel is that this fiasco exposes the neocons and runs them out of office leaving a more centrest GOP ... wishful thinking

the thing is, Faux News has been reporting for days that it's all Obama's and the Dems fault. So all those brainwashed republicans will never realize that their own party has been exposed.

http://americablog.com/2013/10/jon-stew ... tdown.html

Make no mistake It's both sides fault Don't let the msnbc crowd convince you otherwise. Equal responsibility regardless of what either side says.

How is imploding the government over the ACA which was democratically passed, signed by the Prez and upheld by the supreme court equal share fault to the dems?

this is madness by the gop who are crapping all over the constitution that they pretend to hold in such high regard.

unsung

There's like three politicians that don't crap on the Constitution. Let's not pretend its a new concept.

JimmyV

EdsonNascimento wrote:

backseatLover12 wrote:

Jason P wrote:

Well, it's become apparant that Boehner had no backup plan heading into this standoff. Sort of like when Walter filled the briefcase full of his dirty undies and took off for the exchange with an uzi.

The only good light at the end of the tunnel is that this fiasco exposes the neocons and runs them out of office leaving a more centrest GOP ... wishful thinking

the thing is, Faux News has been reporting for days that it's all Obama's and the Dems fault. So all those brainwashed republicans will never realize that their own party has been exposed.

http://americablog.com/2013/10/jon-stew ... tdown.html

Make no mistake It's both sides fault Don't let the msnbc crowd convince you otherwise. Equal responsibility regardless of what either side says.

Is there responsibility on both sides? Yes. Is there equal responsibility on both sides? Not even close.

catefrances

oh no!!! not the national parks. yes america were laughing at you atm. :fp:

aerial

Shutdown forces owners to leave Lake Mead homes






"No way this happens unless the POTUS is quite sure how it will be portrayed in the media, and we all know how that will turn out."

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/government/shutdown-forces-owners-leave-lake-mead-homes

unsung

Obama got in his golf game though.

Jason P

catefrances wrote:

oh no!!! not the national parks. yes america were laughing at you atm. :fp:

Mother Nature has been deemed non essential by the US Government. How will the marmots ever survive without uncle sammy? Did any of our elected leaders consider the marmots?

hedonist

Jason P wrote:

Mother Nature has been deemed non essential by the US Government. How will the marmots ever survive without uncle sammy? Did any of our elected leaders consider the marmots?

Cause it's the new Mother Nature taking over
It's the new splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature taking over
She's gettin' us all


(always has, always will )

backseatLover12

Ya know what I want to see shut down? The US Mail. Talk about a riot taking over the country, and that's what we need to happen to get anywhere. Unfortunately the politicians know this and keep the essentials essential.

unsung

They removed WWII vets from a rally but are allowing an illegal immigration rally at the National Mall.