Government Shutdown

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Globalism for teh lose?

It does seem to have gotten out of hand, I mean I'm all for increased co-operation between countries, but total reliance on other nations for your existence in both financial and other means, it's dangerous.
But, I guess all of our nations have outgrown the nationalist self-state. Could the UK or US switch to a self-sustaining food system without either a) screwing up food prices or b) screwing up the economy?

I doubt it, sadly.


EDIT: As it comes down to this current situation, as has already been said, this is just a battlefield for the mid-terms, a rather risky game of chicken is being played with neither the Dems or the Reps wanting to blink but neither wanting to default. If the Dems blink first then they'll have their flagship (and only) program be chipped at by the GOP (because there's no way that they will settle with just one alteration) and if the GOP blinks first then their party will temporarily self-destruct as the infighting begins, and if neither blink then they're both going to be lynched by the American public when the US economy hits the default.
Given how visible and vocal the rifts in the GOP are, I'd say that the Dems are pretty sure that they're holding the winning cards, which is one of the reasons they're not compromising, they know that if they can hold on, they might just break the GOP.
It's all pretty ballsy stuff, and if the world economy wasn't riding on it would be interesting for all the right reasons, but at the moment it just looks like two parties arguing as the boat moves towards the waterfall...