At midnight last night the government had a forced
shutdown because the Republicans did not like the Affordable Care Act
(Obamacare). Republicans and the House of Representatives refused to fund the
government unless the Obamacare was defunded and dismantled. Congress could not
agree on a spending budget and in return has led to a government shutdown that
leaves federal workers on furlough(without pay) not knowing when they will be
able to return to work. Services deemed essential like Medicare, mail delivery, tax
collection and the military will continue to operate. The
House is controlled by Republicans, whose Tea Party faction is wholly opposed
to Obamacare. They've tried to use the budget as leverage to defund or delay
Obamacare. Every budget they sent to the Senate for approval was bounced back,
because the Senate is controlled by Democrats who want see Obamacare succeed. The last time that
the government shut down was in 1996, and it hurt our economy. This is interesting
to me. I haven’t had the chance to vote yet and I absolutely hate politics because
they get brought up in every conversation and it’s annoying so I do not really
pay much attention to politics but I found it interesting that we are going to
have to sit and wait until one side decides to give in and cut a deal.
Liv,
ReplyDeleteI also responded to the government shutdown on the blog this week. Obamacare and politics in general do not interest me but when I heard and saw all the hype about "government shutdown," I wanted to know what was going on. Government shutdown seems pretty serious. I found information very similar to yours when researching this topic. Although I do not have too much interest in politics, this is interesting to me considering it is something that rarely happens!
Ali