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I have a question about teh shutdown

hypocritexposer

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How did they know to get all those signs printed up beforehand and have them shipped all across the Country?

Who would have told the parks they were going to shutdown? Would have been the OMB, correct?

Cruz must have done that. :lol:
 

jigs

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Makes sense...
I have worked in the government on and off for 40 years. During that time I became quite familiar with requisitions, bidding, awarding contracts etc. It is a time consuming process with bean-counters and pencil-necked bureaucrats every step of the way. The simplest request takes months not days or hours.

In less than 8 hours of the shutdown, miraculously, professionally printed 3X4 foot signs appeared all over the country in the tens of thousands saying this park, facility, etc. [with custom logos] closed due to government shutdown. There has not been a government shutdown in 17 years. These signs were designed, specifications were determined, signs were then requisitioned, bids were posted and vetted, government contracts were awarded. The materials were then ordered and the signs manufactured then distributed U.S. Mails or freight companies.

This shutdown was orchestrated and planned well in advance at least 6-8 month ago. Millions of tax dollars were appropriated and spent in this process. There is a paper trail a mile long leading directly to the White House.
 

Steve

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Looking back... I think Cruz stepped into a set up...

standing on principles is great in society, but not DC,.. had he initially asked for any of the reasonable proposals put forward after the defund obamacare option first, it would have been nearly impossible to spin this as the liberals have..

if you took out their main topic point of continually saying that the republicans want to shut down the government over defunding obamacare and had a more reasonable first vote asking for the three items they compromised on this would have turned out a bit better, especially coupled with obama/governments spiteful actions afterwords..

instead Cruz was setup and destroyed by the left and 20+ moderate republicans for standing up.. his lack of political savvy on this issue will cost him dearly later.. even as those same republicans campaign at home on the same issue in 2014 :mad:
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Don't agree. He is opposing what his citizens want him to oppose. Kicking it on down the line is going to fail. People in Texas support him. He is secured hid trip back.

There is no middle ground anymore. We are broke. We need more with back bones. The dialog your speaking is leftist junk from reporters. People are fed up not with a "closed" government but what the government has done. The talking heads are trying to deflect the anger.

Psychological warfare. There is a war and if is for keeps.
 

Traveler

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None of the socialists will ever vote for Cruz anyway. I would hope his constituents will stand by him.

The fact that Obama doesn't seem willing to budge or negotiate anything seems very planned.
 
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