Congress’s failure to pass legislation to fund the government three years in

Congress’s failure to pass legislation to fund the government three years in
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
October 12, 2013

Like most Americans I woke up this morning, did my normal routine but on this 12th day of the government shutdown, it made more sense to just go back to bed and pull the covers over my head especially after turning on the news. Astonishing as it is, it seems as if every reporter has forgotten that this shutdown came after sequestration.

From The White House

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What Is the Sequester? Why Now?

In the last few years, President Obama and both parties in Congress have worked together to reduce our deficit by more than $2.5 trillion through a combination of spending cuts and increased tax rates.

In 2011, Congress passed a law saying that if they couldn’t agree on a plan to reduce our deficit by $4 trillion — including the $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction lawmakers in both parties have already accomplished over the last few years — about $1 trillion in automatic, arbitrary and across the board budget cuts would start to take effect in 2013.

“The whole design of these arbitrary cuts was to make them so unattractive and unappealing that Democrats and Republicans would actually get together and find a good compromise of sensible cuts as well as closing tax loopholes and so forth. And so this was all designed to say we can't do these bad cuts; let’s do something smarter. That was the whole point of this so-called sequestration." —PRESIDENT OBAMA

Unfortunately, Congress hasn’t compromised, and as a consequence, harmful cuts — known as the sequester — begin March 1.

These cuts will jeopardize our military readiness and eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research, and don’t take into account whether they eliminate some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness, or cut a vital service that Americans depend on every single day.

The Congress had plenty of time to actually prevent this. They had plenty of time to fix it and make it right for the people they just hurt. That wasn't good enough for them. Instead of apologizing to the American people for not doing their jobs, they demanded more suffering from us.

Poll: Just 25 Percent Think Their Own Member Of Congress Deserves Reelection
Huffington Post
Emily Swanson
October 11, 2013

Only one-quarter of Americans think that their own member of Congress should be reelected, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. That's a sharp departure from similar polls conducted before the government shutdown.

In the new survey, 25 percent of respondents said they believe the member of Congress from their district deserves to be reelected, while 47 percent said they did not. Another 27 percent said they weren't sure.

In a Gallup poll conducted last November, 59 percent said their own representative deserved reelection, while only 30 percent said he or she did not. Since Gallup began tracking the question in 1991, the percentage of Americans saying their own representative didn't deserve another term has never been higher than 40 percent.
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These people were elected by their districts but they are paid by the federal government, in other words, by the tax payers of the whole country. That is the way our democracy works. It doesn't matter if we agree with them or not, we pay them to do a job. It is their job to represent the people they got the votes from but it is also their job to work with the others also elected to do a job for their districts. It is not supposed to be about working to defeat the President or the agenda he laid out and won an election by the majority of the whole nation. He is the only one that has been elected that way.

When he was elected the first time, Republican members of House and Senate said their job was to defeat him. Didn't matter what it would do to the American people. We were not their priority.
The only way for that to happen was if they destroyed the nation. They did but the American people were smarter and voted for Obama again. His agenda won and their agenda failed.

So now we watch the country being destroyed by people elected to take care of the whole nation so hell bent on "getting re-elected" they made sure the country no longer functioned. Everyone gets hurt by this. What makes it worse is the military and our veterans, the very people that managed to work together to stay alive in combat for the sake of one another, are the first to suffer.

It isn't just about being paid for what their service to the nation cost them in terms of wounds and disabilities. It isn't about the hardships they all faced so they could be sent into combat or the fact their families faced hardships as well. It is about the fact members of congress did not put the nation first and let it all go to hell because a few members thought they won something. The something they thought they won was destroying every branch of the government no matter who got hurt in the end.

First they said it was about ending Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, that finally tried to do something about letting us live a better quality of life because more were able to go to a doctor. They didn't try to fix it. They just wanted it gone. The voters said they wanted it and re-elected Obama.

Members of congress then kept telling us how we were against it. Ok, then did they notice there was an election where the majority said they agreed with it?

That wasn't good enough so the House kept holding votes on ending it. They didn't get their own way over 40 times later when they were not doing their jobs on everything else.

Then came sequestration because they couldn't pass a budget for the rest of the country.

Still not good enough for them, they wanted more cuts and ending ACA that was passed by the House and the Senate along with being validated by the Supreme Court.

Still not good enough they wanted to just shut down the government. Then they gave up trying to defund Obamacare at the same time they demanded to talk about more cuts.

The only cuts the American people want right now is for them to cut the bullshit while getting paid to do the jobs they haven't wanted to do all these years later.

We're tried to suffering while they talk about what they won't do and what they want.

When someone says they want to burn down a house, do you sit and talk about? Do you ask them if they want to use matches or a lighter? So why did we give them lighter fluid?