2013-10-04, 03:37 PM
My dad managed to convince me that the shutdown is actually not as bad as I was thinking, after about 30 minutes or so. I stated my side that I've posted in this thread, and the response I got was, "I don't think that's the case. The lower class populace of those countries may be laughing at us, but the governing bodies are probably not; in many of their countries, this would not be a shutdown, because when people disagree there, wars start. Here, the opposing sides talk problems through, there, they try to kill one another".
So, I guess the only downside to this really is the layoffs. I've been watching the presidential speeches/grandstands over the last couple of days and poor Obama is getting more and more flustered; in one of them he literally said the stock market NEEDS to be dropping more, they should BE AFRAID OF THIS SHUTDOWN. "this time I think Wall Street should be concerned". I lol'd; he really does have an ego bigger than any president I've lived through, aside from maybe Clinton, since technically he thought screwing everything that moved was OK even though he is married. I hope it lasts until the debt ceiling issue, that way both sides will have actual leverage and real negotiations will start happening; right now it's just a stalemate between the stubborn and the retarded.
So, I guess the only downside to this really is the layoffs. I've been watching the presidential speeches/grandstands over the last couple of days and poor Obama is getting more and more flustered; in one of them he literally said the stock market NEEDS to be dropping more, they should BE AFRAID OF THIS SHUTDOWN. "this time I think Wall Street should be concerned". I lol'd; he really does have an ego bigger than any president I've lived through, aside from maybe Clinton, since technically he thought screwing everything that moved was OK even though he is married. I hope it lasts until the debt ceiling issue, that way both sides will have actual leverage and real negotiations will start happening; right now it's just a stalemate between the stubborn and the retarded.