TheOldSchool
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Save?
Who said saving money was a goal of a republican Shutdown? It is about being authorized to expend appropriated funds.
You are only authorized to expend funds for essential functions regardless of the cost
Guess what? Parks are non-essential
243,000 jobs are non-essential...really. Were park closures mandatory or did Obama decide that parks should be closed. Given this president's obvious concern for jobs, it seems to be a strange decision.
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Obama is not President any more according to RW the republicans are in charge. How that happened is anyone's guess. Obama and the democrats fail to negotiate and shut down the government hurting the little people and all RW can do is reinvent history.
"We're not going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is." Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) on the government shutdown, Oct. 1, 2013
"We're very excited. It's exactly what we wanted, and we got it." Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on the government shutdown, as quoted by the Washington Post, Sept. 29, 2013
"This is my idea of fun." Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) on the government shutdown
"I said, like 9/11, 'let's roll!'" Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), describing his reaction at a meeting of Republican lawmakers planning to shut down the government, invoking the famous phrase used to fight 9/11 hijackers on Sept. 11
"Democrats are voting to kill clean, no-strings-attached funding for veterans care because Obama told them to. That's sick Democrats just curb-stomped veterans. Because Obama told them to.'" Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) on a bill that Congress failed to pass which would have funded only veterans' benefits and nothing else
"The Park Service should be ashamed of themselves." Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), scolding a park ranger for closing the World War II Memorial, after he voted to close the memorial as part of the Republican government shutdown