http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/15/shutdown-showdown-day-15-what-you-need-to-know/?hpt=hp_t1
Going on week 3 of the big bad government shutdown. The senate seems to be close to coming up with a solution and are hoping to come to an agreement today. The Republicans in the House however still have their own ideas although they've already been rejected by Senate Democrats and the White House. The question is will they accept the compromise put forth by the senators that has been hailed as "substantial" and "tremendous" progress.
The Senate deal includes funding for the government until January 15 enabling the government to reopen ASAP, extend the debt limit until February 7 so Congress has some leeway in furthering their negotiations, setting up a committee to address budget and entitlement issues by December 15 and creating income verifications for health care subsidies which is against the presidents will, but they believe compromise enough for the "stubborn" republicans.
If this issue isn't quickly resolved it could have devastating affects on military vets and their families. It's already affecting our national parks. The Arizona Memorial in Hawaii has become unkempt and finally military personel took it upon themselves to clean up the mess. While memorials such as this one may not seem like that big of a deal it's our nations heritage and is extremely important to me and I'm sure to families of those who died there.
I personally think that it's time for both parties to stop the power struggle and compromise. I think the Republicans should accept the deal and the government should reopen. It's a little ridiculous to me that families across the nation have had to go without work and pay these past couple weeks while their "leaders" sit on capitol hill and argue and continue to receive their precious paycheck. Honestly I think they should have had to work this out without their paycheck until they could provide paychecks to all the "non-essential" government employees out there.
Moral of the story is... Just freakin compromise.
I agree that both parties should compromise and think the fact that the Senate is trying to do it is great. I think both sides need to give in some and I like the idea of giving Congress more time to figure out a set compromise.
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