http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24343698
So the Republicans have shut down American government for the second time in two decades. Lets make that clear. This is not Obama's fault but a conscious policy by the right to obstruct and filibuster like their lives and fortunes depend on it. Or maybe we're just meant to accept that the World's largest economy, with its gargantuan military spending, cannot afford to pay veteran's pension cheques or keep the Library of Congress running.
The shut down is an absolute disaster for a fragile world economy and for democracy itself. However abstract it can become, democracy is meant to be government by the will of and in the interest of the people. I don't think a majority (or even a significant fraction) of the American people would support what has happened today.
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