Karee

It's only this simple in your mind. Macroeconomics is actually quite complex. People can get PhDs in macroeconomics. No one can get a PhD in "household budgeting." They are not the same thing.

EIther the government didn't hire any of these folks, or they need to get thier money back from whatever university they attended. It doesn't take a degree to understand that carrying a debt that is ~100% of annual GDP is a bad thing and has to stop. Seems no politicians are interested in resolving that issue.

Still not getting it, I see. What these clowns are working towards is to throw the whole world into the economic abyss. That is what will settle future generations not only with even more debt but it will also rob them of the resources to ever be able to pay any of it. They're literally buring to kill the next generation while claiming to save it. They're a bunch of inept morons that should not be anywhere near the government.

I get it just fine. I think it's you who doesn't get it. The government doesn't have any money left. When you run out of money, you stop spending. Pretty simnple really.

This issue is not about debt. Only in your mind it is. We get it, you have an issue with debt. Cool. Many people want to see the debt go down too. But this Gov shutdown is not about debt.

What govt. shutdown? ~85% of the government is running. I'd hardly call that a shutdown.

Right on! Let's saddle future generations with more debt. I don't have any kids, so why should I care? Lets keep sepnding money we don't have.

Seems illogical that a method used to fight racism, would be more racism.

Oh yes, especially if it effects any Caucasian's then it needs an immediate remedy.

Even if the remedy removes a previous remedy to correct hundreds of years of racism.

The argument is a thing of beauty. If he was alive Martin Luther King would say "what the **** are they saying now?"

So you're in favour of racism then? Thanks for stating your position publicly.

You two stop bickering, you're ruining the mood.

Sorry.

Ah...look who feels all left out. It sucks eating alone at your own table doesn't it.

I'm sure some of your buddies will stop by after they get done watching Fox and friends. Then they'll know what to talk about today.

They only friends I have are here on VJ. I bet my friends list is bigger than yours.

We're looking for a pivot man, you game?

Always.

You can't have the peace and love of religion without the violence and death of guns. The two are inseparable.

Why don't you and RG get a room instead of jerking each other off in public?

Vive Quebec Libre!

I hope they do away with it. Racism in any form is a bad thing.

Duplicate thread.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/458213-putin-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/

If that's the case, I hope you're not helping your kids with their English homework.

You might regret that post.

Exponential spending and borrowing cannot be sustained.

Not hard to understand.

Karee, are you able to fill in the fields using the plug-in or just view the form?

Yes, I can fill in the fields with IE Tab.

Same thing going on with Chrome.

IE is broken for me now, need to sort that...

I don't have IE either, but I use IE tab. It's what I used to look at the form and it worked. It's a plugin for other browsers you can use so they will look like IE to websites.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=IE+Tab

strongest army and air force in the Arab world, right?

Israel?

Where's the story? Girl gets told to not wear a t-shirt. Girl complains. Girl gets apology and is allowed to wear shirt. I don't get how this is news.

It has about as much significance as most of the other stories posted here. At least this story is factual, unlike the fictitious government shutdown.

I can't download form N400.

Anybody else?

I can d/l the instructions and checklist fine.

I have updated adobe 3 times and per their link.

Here's what I get;

Please wait...

If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF

viewer may not be able to display this type of document.

You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac, or Linux® by

visiting http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit http://www.adobe.com/support/products/

acrreader.html.

I got the same thing using Firefox, but when I switched to IE it opened fine.

Q: Where does that money come from? A: Borrowing

Nobody cares about that as long as they get their piece of it. Screw the children who have to pay for it. Both parties think it's fine to take out payday loans on their kids future earnings.

All the slackers in this country should walk up to every 6 year old they see and say "thank you"

Grocery stores on Army bases in the U.S. are closed. The golf course at Andrews Air Force base is open.

All 128 employees of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. are working, while 3,000 safety inspectors employed by the Federal Aviation Administration are off the job.

The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing new pharmaceuticals. The National Institutes of Health is turning away new patients for clinical trials.

The seeming randomness of the U.S. government’s first shutdown in 17 years can be explained in part by anomalies in the spending Congress does and doesn’t control. Activities funded by fees from drug, financial-services and other companies are insulated from year-to-year budget dysfunction. The ones that get a budget from Congress get hit.

“What’s really happening in America is that the appropriations process has completely failed,” said Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow in governance at the Brookings Institution in Washington who worked in the White House during the last shutdown in 1995-96.

This isn’t government according to U.S. civics textbooks. Government is supposed to collect taxes, the president is supposed to propose each year how to spend the money, and Congress has the final say with the constitutional power of the purse.

Passports, Patents

Instead, Congress has had to resort to a so-called continuing resolution -- a catchall bill to keep the government operating on life support while negotiations continue -- in each of the past 16 years.

There have been 93 continuing resolutions passed since 1998, covering operations for as little as 21 days in 1999 to the full years of 2007 and 2011, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Since the standoff between President Bill Clinton and Congress that last shut down most of the government, funding of more functions has shifted to means outside the appropriations process, Kamarck said.

Passport applications are paid for by fees. The FDA is funded through assessments on companies like Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) and Pfizer Inc. (PFE) The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which has said it can operate for at least four weeks, has been funded by user fees since 1993. The Federal Highway Administration is funded by taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, not income taxes, so its 2,914 employees are on the job.

Wildlife Refuges

Other agencies can keep operating with multiyear funding or reserves. Visitor centers and public facilities at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuges are closed, while construction and land acquisition continues because those activities have long-term funding. The Saint Lawrence Seaway agency is using a revolving account containing $12.8 million to stay fully operational.

Closures can seem arbitrary as agencies define what’s necessary for life, health, safety and safeguarding of property.

While many functions at Army bases continue, commissaries in the U.S. are closed, forcing troops and their families to shop at local stores that cost about 30 percent more, Lieutenant General Raymond Mason, the service’s deputy chief of staff for logistics, said yesterday at a House hearing.

“For the soldiers and their families, that’s very difficult,” Mason said.

The Andrews Air Force Base golf course is funded through user fees and that’s why it remains open, said Air Force Captain Lindy Singleton, chief of public affairs for the 11th Wing at Andrews.

JetBlue’s Plane

In Rock Creek Park, the urban forest in Washington where Theodore Roosevelt used to ride his horse, cars made their morning commute along a well-traveled parkway while hikers were prohibited to walk.

Numbers of furloughed employees vary dramatically from agency to agency. The Agriculture Department is furloughing 84 percent of its staff, while the Veterans Affairs Department is keeping 96 percent of its workers on the job.

In the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 38 percent of the 4,113 employees are still on the job, including those that provide water, fight fires or are building roads or bridges. Suspended activities include payments of financial assistance to needy individuals, and to vendors providing foster care.

The shutdown of FAA aircraft-certification activities prevented JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) from taking delivery yesterday of its first Airbus A321 jetliner, the airline said. The plane is stranded at a factory in Germany.

The U.S. Census Bureau has kept nine employees in Indiana on the job for three days to print furlough notices and send them out.

“The reason you’re seeing such irregular things is because everyone knows it’s going to have to end,” Kamarck said. “They also know that when it ends the government is going to pay its bills, one way or the other.”

Source:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/troops-forage-for-food-while-golfers-play-on-in-shutdown.html

W repatriated overseas profits (IRC - 2006). Dems were p!ssed coz big blue did not use the money for hiring. The bulk went to their bottom line.

IMO - restructuring repatriated foreign profit tax rates - lower & competitive = No Brainer. Current administration doesn't want to do that. Go figure.

Another example of government not realizing that corporations exist to turn a profit. I thought that was business 101. Maybe not.

"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

He wasn't even president long enough to figure out where the rest rooms in the White House were located, let alone do anything with foreign policy. Maybe they're referring to his work in the Senate, but from what I can tell he started running for president pretty quick after he arrived there.

I guess they gave it to him because his last name wasn't Bush.

All this doom & gloom.

1 definition of myopia = a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something.

Let's broaden the Horizon a bit =

http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=2314

Fiscal policy affects cash holdings in two ways, both of which involve taxes. First, public firms are seeing their profits rise elsewhere in the world; if these firms were to bring these profits from overseas operations back to the U.S., the profits would be relatively heavily taxed. Second, uncertainty about future taxes is on the rise.

Who was the genius that came up with that policy?