US Government may be going on strike !
Just watched and caught the back end of the News that was talking about various services within the US going on strike and services shutting down completely...in which it suggested as if Chaos could occur..
seemed hard to believe... :o
Not sure if its to do with the US not wanting to go along with Obama care..
For a decade, Washington has been the town that the recession forgot, a bastion of economic confidence, low unemployment, growing wealth and healthy property values. But as the rest of the country has started to recover, Washington and its close-by suburbs in Maryland and Virginia have stalled, hit hard by the $1 trillion in budget cuts known as sequestration, as well as by hundreds of billions of dollars in additional cuts to the military.
If the government has a lapse in spending, or if Congress cannot approve an increase in the government's borrowing limit in mid-October, the pain would only get worse, economists said.
"There's been a dramatic slowdown in growth" in recent years, said Stephen Fuller, the director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University. "A potential shutdown, the debt ceiling — those headwinds would come in combination with sequestration, furloughs, job reductions and contract cutbacks."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/us/politics/government-shutdown-would-hurt-economy-of-washington-area.html
Yep, there goes hubby's paycheck again. They are shutting down the department of defense, because the democrats and repubs are at logger heads about the new budget for this fiscal year. the repubs are refusing to sign it until obamacare is removed from it. the democrats are refusing to remove obamacare so now, millions of department of defense employees will go without pay starting tomorrow.
the problem is, you have to have a stellar credit rating to keep your job in dod. how do you do that without a paycheck?
That must have been part of what I saw on the evening news earlier...
( I missed the beginning )
It did seem to suggest it could become a long term thing, bringing chaos with various Gov departments being shut down for sometime, for various everyday essential services....
If so..
Is this part of the Gov plan to distract us from something else or to create riots on the streets along the lines of some of the things Alex Jones talks about.
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=5398.msg73490;topicseen#new
So no troop paycheck...
... means no war?
:o
Quote from: zorgon on October 01, 2013, 02:52:03 AM
So no troop paycheck...
... means no war?
:o
no they are paying (so far) the active duty guys. just not the dod civilian employees. nearly half of which are disabled vets.
Time to buy the US! Discount rates? I will ask the leaders here if they want to blow a few extra trillion of our money, we gave them. This is what happens when the states got greedy and bought all of it goods from outside. No money left to play with. No jobs, people losing homes, manufacturing is a lost art. Made in the USA means me and you and no products. I bet that durring all of this there is still millions or billions going out as aid to places that are better off than the states. They can print money very fast. Too bad it makes the old money worthless.
Seems the gobermant is now seeing what we all are going through. Let them shut down, they need a re-boot. Only sorry for the vets and people who really need assistance. Most of the people in congress don't need the money anyways. They have lots of pork to chew on.
Deuem
Quote from: deuem on October 01, 2013, 03:23:56 AM
Time to buy the US! Discount rates? I will ask the leaders here if they want to blow a few extra trillion of our money, we gave them. This is what happens when the states got greedy and bought all of it goods from outside. No money left to play with. No jobs, people losing homes
China is already buying up all the foreclosures :P
Quoteif Congress cannot approve an increase in the government's borrowing limit in mid-October
This gets me sick to know that what was once the number one country in the world has to borrow money just to bomb other countries while its own people are stuck in the mddle with no money. Everytime they borrow money the problem gets worse and only pushed ahead to the future. It should be against the law for the states to borrow money. What are they doing in DC? They spend money faster than a drunken sailor at port.
Deuem
Quote from: zorgon on October 01, 2013, 03:25:32 AM
China is already buying up all the foreclosures :P
I can get a good job teaching US people how to speak Chinese. When I was young, China was never talked about. Now they are on the doorstep buying us. Humm! The game is afoot. Risk Anyone?
Deuem
hubby is melting down over here.
it's not good.
Quote from: undo11 on October 01, 2013, 04:02:44 AM
hubby is melting down over here.
it's not good.
I can imagine... hang in there
FYI Threads merged...
the way i understand it .military and social security are automatic pays.all else is being voted on.supposedly my obamacare is automatic.jan 1st i can go to doctor for free.thankyou taxpayers.
ats appears to be down. on their twitter someone from their staff reported it as well. they claim they are being attacked.
yea i couldnt get on a couple hours ago.
maybe they lost their funding? lol
could glp be next?
pegasus may be gaining market share soon.
it would be really funny if the gov shutdown turned zorgon into a millionaire.
Quote from: robomont on October 01, 2013, 11:15:56 AM
yea i couldnt get on a couple hours ago.
it was down for an hour or so, and then back up for like 30 minutes or so, then back down again. weird
from springer
"Yes. AboveTopSecret.com is current being attacked. We're doing the best we can to restore the site."
Quote from: robomont on October 01, 2013, 11:15:56 AM
it would be really funny if the gov shutdown turned zorgon into a millionaire.
For that to happen we would need to flood Peggy with ads :P
hey z, when you're a millionaire, can i get some funding for game idea? :D
anyway, some think it's a hack attack from some muslim group. some think it's a gov site and was considered non -essential and got shut down same time as the rest of the non-essential gov sites, like the president's twitter account. i don't know. i mean ats' twitter and facebook, are both up and running. and they did come back up for like a half hour and then went back down again. kinda hard to tell
I assume that Congress and the Senate will get paid.......Make sure those bastards are required to stay in session and in Washington, let them stay drunk and obnoxious to each other on the House and Senate floors.