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The things that would stop with a fed gov’t shutdown:

- the IRS will stop processing paper tax returns

- the Small Business Administration will stop making loans

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Recently, I saw a Tweet that made me think, “more government = less liberty <- you can’t pare it down any more than that.” This was from Brooks Bayne (@brooksbayne). He is a writer from the website, thegraph.com, a site that seemingly aligns itself with a Libertarian ideology.

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“This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles,” Boehner said during an appearance on conservative Sean Hannity’s radio show.

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There is a website that I like to go to quite a bit. It is http://www.mnprogressiveproject.com. On this site one of the writers, Joe Bodell, posted an interesting question.  I thought this would make a great Question of the Week. Link to original article.

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Notice how Fox News has someone interviewed who manages to blame a bloated intelligence service on Obama. When, under his management, the amount of private contractors in the intelligence community has gone down by 7%. Military spending is one of the things we have to cut as well, might as well save money by not wasting it on private contractors.

The Debt Commission that was appointed by President Obama earlier this year came out with a startling report.

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Well, it keeps getting more interesting. For all those people who like to put France or Europe on a pedestal that the US should admire, remember this.

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This is why I have a problem, in general, with the Tea Party. They do not even represent this country, in fact, it seems that they are very un-American.

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