Apparent Aspects Some Shallow and Some Deep While Moving to Phase After 'Government Shutdown' Over
October 8, 2013
Here are a few statements and comments made by those holding top posts, seats in government, statements and comments that reference the financial crisis experienced over the past few weeks:
Obama says shutdown 'reckless'.
John Kerry says shutdown 'moment of political silliness'.
Further in depth, Obama discusses perspective on imminent shutdown, shown in the video directly hereunder.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3XrLCiZsdPQ
Key words from Obama in the minute-long video:
Statements made by Kerry while on his trip overseas a few days ago, are in the excerpts below from coverage about the trip.
"Mr. Kerry [U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry], though, attempted to downplay the potential fallout from the standoff in Congress, calling the government shutdown a "moment of political silliness" that would pass. He stressed that U.S. commitments to maritime security and trade talks in Asia are intact.
Speaking to reporters, Mr. Kerry conceded that "there are some things that get affected, and that is regrettable." He said a "disappointing situation back home" was interrupting funding for Israeli security assistance and peacekeeping in the Middle East. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303722604579116720434602350.html
Basically, less money has gone to Israel, resulting from the 'shutdown', is the way this reads, it also reads, if we didn't have the shutdown, then there was a strong possibility that money would have gone to Israel. In what amounts of money?,-- one might ask, it sounds like the dollar amount would have been commensurate to the scale of the discussion.
How long will the Affordable Care Act, also known as 'Obamacare', last, in terms of the details while Obama presides?
Was that the real hinge, if it was, considering Obama has 2 years thereabout left in office, should it have been the hinge?
Our hopes, thoughts, and prayers, that the 'shutdown situation' is not being used as a launchpad for fame, power, and political ambitions.
Three areas present themselves in the bustle for regrouping and recouping therein the repair process of funding lapses:
Efficiency:
25 years ago, when the amount of office space needed for a staff of thousands was calculated, the size of the portable computers, PCs, literally the bulky monitors and hard-drives, took 10 times the space per computer. When in the tens of thousands, that space adds up. The streamlining of office space efficiency could result in trimming entire office building floors, if not office buildings, from a company's budget, they are simply no longer needed when we now have the flat monitors and portable hard-drives of today. Alternatively, the buildings could be used for something else.
This analogy refers to everything on the technological advancement cusp, in context of modern technologies respective to the budget and funding crisis, that many people dub 'government shutdown'.
Let's say utopia occurs tomorrow, and the shutdown is over, and everything goes back to what it was a few weeks ago. In the process of the repair job, is throwing funding at obsolete technologies, like the space for bulky computers, the cutting-edge smartest strategy across the board? If the analogy described above is upheld, when other dimensions of finance challenges are considered like budget trimming, repayment of debt, and the budget ceiling, to carefully do the repair job from the 'shutdown', it might include precision trimming for effectiveness, and might be part of the common sense post 'government shutdown' repaired phase.
Fairness, and the determining the wheat from the chaff in all directions:
Programs which make it easier for people not as well to do might have seen cutbacks. There are instances where these cutbacks have adversely affected people that are legitimately in need of funds, such as severely inured veterans, and orphans.
Then the contrast begins to show. What about people that are taking unfair and disproportionate advantage of funding from the government, for example middle aged men that would ordinarily be healthy, that are not being proactive about staying employed because they are catering their schedules to illicit narcotic and drug habits? Should they have access to the huge pools of money and programs funded thereof that were up and running before the funding halts?
Systems and processes of selection, qualifications, need, are plausibly on the list of the phase after the pulling up out of the Congress impasse concerning funding.
The United States system of checks and balances:
Democrats and Republicans, as well as independents, are all in the political system together. No matter what the challenge is for the political system, whether it be a prospective 'government shutdown', waging war on another country, tax raises, you name it, no one political party is the ultimate and one party to make the final decision as to the shape of the entire country. The system of checks and balances was established long ago, what we all learned in school, for those of us so fortunate, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
When things come to, not excluding manipulative methods to arrive at, one political party, especially a situation of a few members at the forefront of the party having it appear to be that, getting their hands on the control buttons of something as serious as how the U.S. looks to the rest of the world, it does not sit with everyone as the ideals of the system of checks and balances the Founding Fathers had in mind. Certainly a distorted sense of the original aims of the Republican Party or Democratic Party pulled out of a manuscript that was used in the 1800s, and attempting to apply them to today's political setting, makes it sound like a suffering from mental sickness, where antiquated beliefs and delusions are inappropriately attempted to be used today. It is doubtful that in the next meeting of Congress, the representatives are going to arrive in white wigs, in the tradition of whig parties. Craziness if they were stopped by security and insisted on doing so, right? In the same vein, claiming it is your and yours only to make the decision as to matters that are the subject of the system of checks and balances, is also ludicrous.
Concluding this article, our hopes, thoughts, and prayers also go out that Washington DC has not become the focus point of scenes for demoralization. This is talking about, acts of violence, then a shutdown, then acts of violence, and the rest of the world looks at Washington DC, in whatever lense they are accustomed to looking at Washington, and see a collective series of events that they do not look favorably at.
Obama says shutdown 'reckless'.
John Kerry says shutdown 'moment of political silliness'.
Further in depth, Obama discusses perspective on imminent shutdown, shown in the video directly hereunder.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3XrLCiZsdPQ
Key words from Obama in the minute-long video:
- 'ideological fight'
- '...never seen in the history of the United States...'
- 'being used to extort... and force...'
Statements made by Kerry while on his trip overseas a few days ago, are in the excerpts below from coverage about the trip.
"Mr. Kerry [U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry], though, attempted to downplay the potential fallout from the standoff in Congress, calling the government shutdown a "moment of political silliness" that would pass. He stressed that U.S. commitments to maritime security and trade talks in Asia are intact.
Speaking to reporters, Mr. Kerry conceded that "there are some things that get affected, and that is regrettable." He said a "disappointing situation back home" was interrupting funding for Israeli security assistance and peacekeeping in the Middle East. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303722604579116720434602350.html
Basically, less money has gone to Israel, resulting from the 'shutdown', is the way this reads, it also reads, if we didn't have the shutdown, then there was a strong possibility that money would have gone to Israel. In what amounts of money?,-- one might ask, it sounds like the dollar amount would have been commensurate to the scale of the discussion.
How long will the Affordable Care Act, also known as 'Obamacare', last, in terms of the details while Obama presides?
Was that the real hinge, if it was, considering Obama has 2 years thereabout left in office, should it have been the hinge?
Our hopes, thoughts, and prayers, that the 'shutdown situation' is not being used as a launchpad for fame, power, and political ambitions.
Three areas present themselves in the bustle for regrouping and recouping therein the repair process of funding lapses:
Efficiency:
25 years ago, when the amount of office space needed for a staff of thousands was calculated, the size of the portable computers, PCs, literally the bulky monitors and hard-drives, took 10 times the space per computer. When in the tens of thousands, that space adds up. The streamlining of office space efficiency could result in trimming entire office building floors, if not office buildings, from a company's budget, they are simply no longer needed when we now have the flat monitors and portable hard-drives of today. Alternatively, the buildings could be used for something else.
This analogy refers to everything on the technological advancement cusp, in context of modern technologies respective to the budget and funding crisis, that many people dub 'government shutdown'.
Let's say utopia occurs tomorrow, and the shutdown is over, and everything goes back to what it was a few weeks ago. In the process of the repair job, is throwing funding at obsolete technologies, like the space for bulky computers, the cutting-edge smartest strategy across the board? If the analogy described above is upheld, when other dimensions of finance challenges are considered like budget trimming, repayment of debt, and the budget ceiling, to carefully do the repair job from the 'shutdown', it might include precision trimming for effectiveness, and might be part of the common sense post 'government shutdown' repaired phase.
Fairness, and the determining the wheat from the chaff in all directions:
Programs which make it easier for people not as well to do might have seen cutbacks. There are instances where these cutbacks have adversely affected people that are legitimately in need of funds, such as severely inured veterans, and orphans.
Then the contrast begins to show. What about people that are taking unfair and disproportionate advantage of funding from the government, for example middle aged men that would ordinarily be healthy, that are not being proactive about staying employed because they are catering their schedules to illicit narcotic and drug habits? Should they have access to the huge pools of money and programs funded thereof that were up and running before the funding halts?
Systems and processes of selection, qualifications, need, are plausibly on the list of the phase after the pulling up out of the Congress impasse concerning funding.
The United States system of checks and balances:
Democrats and Republicans, as well as independents, are all in the political system together. No matter what the challenge is for the political system, whether it be a prospective 'government shutdown', waging war on another country, tax raises, you name it, no one political party is the ultimate and one party to make the final decision as to the shape of the entire country. The system of checks and balances was established long ago, what we all learned in school, for those of us so fortunate, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
When things come to, not excluding manipulative methods to arrive at, one political party, especially a situation of a few members at the forefront of the party having it appear to be that, getting their hands on the control buttons of something as serious as how the U.S. looks to the rest of the world, it does not sit with everyone as the ideals of the system of checks and balances the Founding Fathers had in mind. Certainly a distorted sense of the original aims of the Republican Party or Democratic Party pulled out of a manuscript that was used in the 1800s, and attempting to apply them to today's political setting, makes it sound like a suffering from mental sickness, where antiquated beliefs and delusions are inappropriately attempted to be used today. It is doubtful that in the next meeting of Congress, the representatives are going to arrive in white wigs, in the tradition of whig parties. Craziness if they were stopped by security and insisted on doing so, right? In the same vein, claiming it is your and yours only to make the decision as to matters that are the subject of the system of checks and balances, is also ludicrous.
Concluding this article, our hopes, thoughts, and prayers also go out that Washington DC has not become the focus point of scenes for demoralization. This is talking about, acts of violence, then a shutdown, then acts of violence, and the rest of the world looks at Washington DC, in whatever lense they are accustomed to looking at Washington, and see a collective series of events that they do not look favorably at.
Posted by HCN.
