Originally Posted By: Hankster
Report: Economic Toll Of Government Shutdown Almost As Bad As Economic Toll Of Having A Bloated Federal Government In The First Place

U.S.—The economic toll of the government shutdown is growing by the day, and experts now believe the cost of having the government partially closed down is nearly as bad as the economic toll of a functioning government interfering in our economy, businesses, and private decisions in the first place.

"It's really bad---almost as bad as when the government is running on all cylinders," said one financial expert, Gary Rothberd. "The cost of having the government shut down is now very close to being as terrible as when they're messing with everything."

Economic effects include government workers who aren't being paid, reducing the amount of money being spread around in the economy. This is reportedly almost as bad as the cost of the federal government having taken that money away from private citizens to redistribute to other causes as they see fit.

Several economists suggested reducing the size of the federal government, but these recommendations have been met with criticism from people who are being paid by the federal government. "A smaller government? It would never work," said one publicly funded economist. "The only answer is to make the government bigger, so we can solve the economic problem the government has created."


You are so fvcking stupid it blows me away. You just keep putting up stupid sh!t. Haven't you anything else to do? Why do you think the GOP especially wants a small government genius? Let me tell you a few reasons.

First regulation. Of course being the bonehead you are without regulation your right wing bed buddies that support big business and are supported by big business will fleece you until your hole ridden underwear is snatched of your hairy ass. I've worked in big business for 40 years and not only do they not give a sh!t about you buddy but they don't give a sh!t about their employees. What do they give a sh!t about? Their shareholders. Not little share holders in 401-K accounts or other small investments. It's the major share holders.

Then there's price fixing. Take look at a few years ago when the airlines got together and fixed prices. With regulation you have a chance a stopping that sh!t.

Big Pharma is now under investigation for the same thing. Do you thing the GOP cares? No. Why? Because they get a ton of money from them. Your God Trump was going to negotiate better prices. Did he? No. Why? Because he needs their money.

The mortgage industry was fleecing people by the millions. Why? Because they could. Not enough oversight (regulation). New rules (regulations) were put is place and it reduced fraud tremendously. Trump is trying to get rid of those regulations.

Capitalism can be good thing as long as it's regulated otherwise it will spin out of control. Idiots like you Hank are the classic example of what I've been saying since Trump got elected. What I've been saying is the great majority of people that voted for Trump are the people that will suffer the most from his policies.

So you keep your misguided outlook and keep taking it in the rear Hank. It seems that from your posts you like that anyway. Keep cutting your nose off to spite your ignorant face. You have a lot of low IQ company.


Edited by gooybob (01/25/19 03:17 PM)