YES! It will open the government & raise the debt limit.
9%
NO! It's a short term fix & we needed a permanent one.
91%
Asked on Oct. 16, 2013 12:05 pm
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government default:
the market-state's default setting: corporate persons deciding every what, when, and how of everything government gets done to natural persons and Nature
2013 default protection:
a corporate party "government default" benefit performance, by which recalcitrant acting Republicans kept hope in their changeless corporate party Democrat partners alive, so the corporate party's (R) & (D) team could continue to fool all the sheeple all the time
how the corporate party ensured its 2014 collection of another 99% popular vote mandate to continue the continuum of its (R) & (D) team's sociopathic policies... by locking in the votes of retarded retrogrades for Republicans and the votes of the deeply depraved for Democrats
Republicans:
Americans who are opposed to having a republic
the people who GOTV for the corporate party's Democrats
bible damaged voters
Democrats:
Americans who are opposed to having a democracy
the people who GOTV for the corporate party's Republicans
drug damaged voters
Tea Party:
dimwitted have nots serving the interests of the have mosts
red state shepherds of blue state sheeple
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Republican/GOP/Tee boys = Party before country E V E R Y T I M E.
We should have kept their keys while we had them out of the building!