Here are some reader comments in response to the Atlanta Forward discussion on the federal budget brawl.
Change: Sadly, the two major parties do not have different views on how to govern this country. Both believe it is appropriate to steal a large portion of your income and distribute it. Both believe it is appropriate for the federal government to be involved in activities far beyond what is clearly defined in Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. Both believe in a massive overseas foreign empire that costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year to support. Both believe the federal government should micromanage education. Both believe the federal government should back up loans and alleviate banks from responsibility. Both support the Federal Reserve, which enables massive deficit spending, destroys the dollar value and purchasing power of savers (the backbone of a strong economy) and has been the cause of every financial crisis since its creation in 1913. Both support the failed war on drugs, which has filled our prisons with millions of non-violent persons, destroyed families and created a massive black market filled with violence and high profits for criminals and corrupted the justice system at every level. Both support massive welfare programs for business, although each party hands out the welfare only to certain "favorites" while opposing the ones the other party hands out. I could go on.
Jack: Well said, Change. Way too many Americans have been feted with systematic and destructive dependence on the "system." Way too many have voluntarily placed themselves in that category simply because they can and knowing full well they'll receive righteous support and sympathy from true believers in egalitarianism. I vote Republican instead of Democrat because I believe the Democrats want to give away the entire store. Republicans do not.
Sky_blue2013: House Speaker John Boehner had the opportunity to allow a clean vote. He failed to do so because he wants to keep his job. Most Americans would support a vote on a clean bill. Why did the Republicans want to keep a clean bill off the floor? They knew it would pass, which would eliminate their chance to continue to "shut down" the government. What the Republicans fail to realize when they say they represent the people, is that they do not represent all the people. The majority of us voted in the last election to re-elect President Barack Obama.
DG: President Barack Obama is ultimately responsible for this economy, shutdown and all the corruption amongst the elite politicians who are exempt from Obamacare. House Speaker John Boehner just wants the American people to have a choice, like Congress does, instead of a mandate. Forcing people to buy your product that you have a monopoly on is extreme, blatant, arrogant ignorance of the Constitution.
