Reportedly, Americans are blaming the Republicans for the government shutdown, which most of them do not like. This plays well for the Obama government and the Democratic Party. It has been a successful PR campaign so far, it would appear. The Democrats are looking good in the eyes of the
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Stop calling it a “shutdown” – it’s not, it’s business as usual
(See the article by Brian Anderson on Motherboard, mentioned below – it is excellent, as well as blisteringly funny.) You can’t really say something is shut down when it wasn’t functioning to begin with, Motherboard’s Brian Anderson only half jokingly says, and of course, he is right. (Kudos to him
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: US government shutdown, and other fairy tales and political theatre
I’m not sure what to make of the hoopla going on in the US right now. I’m inclined to think it’s all just political theatre, as Gerald Celente calls it, designed to distract the people from the real issues – the central one being, who controls the government and the
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