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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, the Republican’s could not pass their own bill. They are voting now but too many Republicans have already voted against so it will fail.[/quote]

Why are R's not supporting this stripped down bill? I don't understand--what do they want? a two sentence straight extension? [b]or they just want the govt closed until 1/20, so nothing will satisfy them?[/b][/quote]

[b]This is what Elon was advocating yesterday.[/b][/quote]j j

How could any serious person advocate shutting down the USG until 1/20?  That is going to wreck the economy and hurt a lot of ordinary people in and out of government.

I guess when you're a billionaire, you don't care about wrecking the economy because you have enough money to ride it out and survive and maybe even pick up some companies at a lower price?

But, seriously, who does he think is going to buy Teslas when we the economy collapses? [/quote]

How is that going to wreck the economy?

You realize there were eight shutdowns in Reagan's term.  Yet here we are.

Is the sky still falling?[/quote]

There were not 8 shutdowns during Reagan's Presidency. There were 3 - one lasted a day, the other 2 were 4hours long.

Please stop spreading lies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States[/quote]

There were 8 shutdowns.

https://www.history.com/news/ronald-reagan-government-shutdown-reasons[/quote]

Oct 1982 - a stopgap bill was enacted - no shutdown 
"The Office of Management and Budget indicated that no harm would be done if the bill was enacted Friday. ''Everybody goes to work tomorrow,'' said Edwin L. Dale Jr., spokesman for the agency."

Dec 1982 - no shutdown https://www.newspapers.com/image/225773891/?match=1&terms=government%20shutdown

Nov 1983 - lapse in funding was over Veterans Day holiday - no shutdown https://www.newspapers.com/image/257258414/?match=1&terms=government%20shutdown

You can see in this article from 1984 that it was the 2nd shutdown in 3 years (the first was 1981) - https://www.newspapers.com/image/885661649/?match=1&terms=government%20shutdown

1987 - government shutdown averted https://www.newspapers.com/image/939865810/?match=1&terms=government%20shutdown

So, no, Wikipedia was right - there were 3, not 8, shutdowns when Reagan was President. You might not, too, that Congress in those days took their job seriously and worked really hard with the President to AVOID shutdowns. Because their job is to run the government, not destroy it.[/quote]

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