Posted on 10/10/2013 12:03:55 PM PDT by MeganC
Okay, so if the Continuing Resolution that was supposed to fund the National Parks, Obamacare, and etc. hasn't been passed and the Fed has now had to shut down the parks and etc. due to a lack of funding then why isn't Obamacare being shut down?
Is anyone asking this question because I haven't seen it or heard it being asked anywhere.
Because Obama is a lawless dictator. And I mean that quite literally.
Why isn’t the White Hut and Capitol Hill shut down?
Because much of ObamaCare was already funded, outside of the CR currently at issue.
Perhaps because it is considered manditory spending and not subject to the annual budget process.
http://keepingamericagreat.org/glossary/discretionary-spending/
Okay, so what part of Obamacare that is impacted by this CR has been shut down?
Having asked my Representative the same thing, it’s my understanding that the democrats wrote the bill so the funding wouldn’t be part of the normal discretionary budget process, but would be treated as “off budget” like Social Security and therefore immune to being defunded in the case of a shutdown.
You probably can’t contact your representative do the shutdown.
I wonder how many tens of millions they spent last week throwing more servers at Obamaware in hopes of making it work.
The president has significant authority on what to shut down.
With Obamacare as a tax, he can assert that it should stay open because of the taxes it is expected to bring in.
given the website design, and 99% rejecton rate, practically, it is.
I don't know, but I'd guess that many HHS employees who would be working on ObamaCare-related issues have been furloughed. The impact may be minimal, though, since the vast majority of ObamaCare funding is part of permanent/mandatory appropriations that are outside of the current CR issue ("much" may have been an understatement in my previous post).
People should just act like they don’t care things are shut down.
Y’know, a bully @$$hole only has power over you if he knows what you want.
Fine, close down the memorials? Got plenty else to do obunghole.
Maybe I’ll go see Larry Sinclair, heard he has some fun stuff to do in a limo.
And this lawless dictator King Obama will shut down what he feels like.
i think swarming these blockaded areas is just as important. we aren’t going to take this petty, imperialist, totalitarian crap.
Thank you. That makes sense. Now I hope the GOP sticks to their guns because yu know for damn sure that Obama won’t negotiate on Obamacare if they pass the CR.
the liberal academia that is advising Obama didn’t foresee the massive counter coming from the public sector...apparently college theories don’t work in the real world!
Oh, things will work out just fine.
Very informative. Thank you for the link!
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