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The U.S. Government shutdown...

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If there is a government shutdown in the United States, who's to blame: the Republications, Democrats, or do both parties share equal blame?

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Both parties will blame each other, and they will both be right.
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Question Everything wrote:Both parties will blame each other, and they will both be right.
Of course, but the question for debate is who should be blamed and why.

I blame the Democrats for a failure to stand up for their core principles, and the complete failure to articulate a loud and clear message.

However, the Republicans more responsible for the budget impasse. Senate Democrats have agreed to cut 33 billion dollars for the budget; the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party wants 40 billion. The difference is only 7 billion dollars, which is about how much we spend in Iraq each day. The Republicans don’t really care about a balanced budget, as evidence on their insistence late last year to extend the Bush-era tax cut to the wealthy. It’s estimated that the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy will cost the Government $700 billion dollars over the next ten years.

The real issue at hand is ideology, not the budget. The Republicans are trying to create a crisis for the purpose of manipulating the public to turn against popular programs that are pet projects of the Democratic Party. Programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, WIC, community heath centers, EPA, Department of Education, etc… The Republican leadership also seek to slow the economic recovery, which they feel will hurt Obama at the polls in 2012.

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