Comments on: Op-Ed: Analyzing The Shutdown Showdown: Winners & Losers http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/editorial/89534/op-ed-analyzing-the-shutdown-showdown-winners-losers.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:26:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 By: akuperma http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/editorial/89534/op-ed-analyzing-the-shutdown-showdown-winners-losers.html#comment-215166 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:17:10 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=89534#comment-215166 Given that the budget deficit is running in the area of 1000 to 2000 billion (or 1-2 trillion, if you prefer), reducing it by under 50 billion is a joke, and we are the butt of the joke.

If you were earning $100K a year, and your household expenses were running $200K a year, how significant would it be to reduce your household expenditures to $195K.

The politicians are winners for the time being, since they finally emerged as not being total morons. But if they manage to cause a real depression and/or hyperinflation, ALL the politicians will be losers, and they will be replaced by people who are now outside the system, and if remember what happened after the German economy was destroyed by its “political class” – it isn’t something to look forward to.

]]> By: charliehall http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/editorial/89534/op-ed-analyzing-the-shutdown-showdown-winners-losers.html#comment-215165 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:12:05 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=89534#comment-215165 Actually Reid was a winner because he suceeded in re-framing the debate (correctly) as an attempt by the Republicans to shut down the government in order to de-fund Planned Parenthood. The Republicans caved.

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