Republicans holding us hostage yet again.

[Screamapillar]

tres said:

Screamapillar said:

Soleron said:

Screamapillar said:

badgenome said:

spaceguy said:

I study Economics and am taking a class in that and political science.

Ask for a refund, IMO.

Better yet... don't ask for a refund.  Better if you dump your tuition funds back into the economy.  At least then some good is coming of it.

Purchasing for purchasing's sake and then counting that as growth is a large part of the problem.

So uh

The Republicans are narrow-minded to bring a country to a paralysing crisis setting that lowers confidence in government, and:
The Democrats are too weak to propose anything bold at all

The word 'bold' in the context you're using it in scares me to death.  Generally speaking, doing something 'bold' in politics means spending even more money and raising revenues.  We know how that gets done... scraping even more money off the top and sapping capital from the only segment of the country that actually generates true growth: small, private businesses.

ahhh the job creators myth..

so crushing the middle and lower class expands the customer base for said small, private businesses?   gotcha lol

Capital comes from savings... that's what capital is.  Someone using money they've saved to start a business and then grow it, etc, etc.  Money printed out of thin air by a computer by the Dept of the Treasury is not capital.  It's an I.O.U.  That is what is crippling us.  The value of our currency is collapsing, and if you need evidence of that, look no further than how high politicians and bureaucrats think the next increase to the minimum wage ought to be.  The unemployment rate the government uses as a figure to determine how the economy is doing is completely disengenuous.  They don't even count people that have ceased looking for work. 

I never said anything about crushing the middle or lower class. Politicians are crushing them by squeezing their pocket books.  Everything we buy is getting more and more expensive, and our wages are not increasing.  That is the problem.  That problem is caused by the deliberate inflation of our currency and the blind eye nearly every single politcian is turning to that fact.