GOP Rep. Joe Walsh: Government shutdown could be good for country

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By David Edwards

Tea party favorite Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Il) thinks that a government shutdown could be just what this country needs.

"This is the most serious financial situation I think we've had," Walsh told CBS News' Nancy Cordes Tuesday. "And so if we need a jolt, if we need the government shutdown for a few days for us to really get serious, I think the American people are with that."

Walsh said he regularly holds town hall meetings where a majority of the people support a shut down.

Read more at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/30/gop-rep-joe-walsh-government-shutdown-could-be-good-for-country/

[Renew Deal]

1. The majority of the people in his echo chamber support it

It's like listening to the voices in your head.

[elleng]

4. and of course they have no idea what the consequences,

immediate and longer-term, would actually be.

[Renew Deal]

6. Absolutely no clue!

The real fun is when the debt ceiling doesn't shift.

[freshwest]

7. Yes, they do and they relish the thought of what's going to happen to others.

We have to face the true intent the Galtian teabaggers. Destruction of the social order, which they call statist. They plan to profit off the chaos and are well-positioned to do so.

[elleng]

8. Not, I think, 'person on the street' teabaggers; 'Galtians,' sure.

[freshwest]

14. Granted, and it would be illogical of me to do an 'all' or 'always.'

I hope that in your experience, you are seeing some of these people waking up and walking away from this.

But I know 'person on the street' teabaggers who want the social safety net, but only for them. They scream about immigrants, welfare queens, blacks, muslims, abortion, question and condemn other people's ailments and weaknesses. Then they pull out their God card to wave around and make it all seem right.

A lot of them are older and can't compete in this wonderful free marketplace, this uber capitalist utopia they claim provides us all with food, shelter and the life eternal, almost.

Some of them don't work, some are women who are counting on their men or family to take care of them. They support all the wars because a lot of them are married to veterans and they get the benefits from that. So if you dare question any spending on war, you're a traitor and a cancer destroying the whole country.

But for those who don't believe- and I emphasize believe- in their version of God and GOP - they'd just as soon shoot them dead. I've actually been threatened for simply not getting into the outrage of the day dished by FOX, Beck, etc, because it wasn't logical.

My lack of enthusiasm even if I said, 'OK, I see your point' to stop the onslaught made me a suspect. When I asked them if we could please have a conversation without discussing those things, they hung up on the phone or walked away in a huff depending on who it was.

I've lost 'friends' I've known most of my life and a couple of family members over this, even when I didn't argue. Some long-distance people even argued my geographic location as wrong to them.

Anyway, I hope you are right about them changing, and I am wrong. I don't see the ones I know ever changing their minds as long as these media pundits are in control of their minds.

[elleng]

16. Sorry about your sad experiences; I have had no direct contacts, fortunately.

Don't know that they will ever change, tho probably some will. Hope the way things are/will be, 'under' their bosses, causes large numbers of electorate to come out as they may not have done recently. Wisconsin gives me hope.

[tridim]

2. I'm thinking we should just shut down the teabagger wing of government

That's what his "people" want.

[AndyTiedye]

3. Shutting Down the Government Has Been Their Goal All Along

[LeftishBrit]

5. A right-wingers' shut-UP would definitely be good for the country and the entire world

I have noted before that Republican members of Congress seem to believe that public employees should not go on strike - except for Republican members of Congress.

[Marr]

9. I'm thinking every non-CEO in this country needs to "go Galt" for a week, just

so these morons can see who actually makes the whole thing work, and who is disposable.

[sad sally]

10. If this means shutting down the Pentagon and bringing all the

troops all over the world home for a couple of years of R&R, bring it on.

(i know, stoopid post)

[jwirr]

11. He holds a town hall meeting and the people there are mostly his

supporters and he thinks they are a majority of Americans? Where is this meeting place that is big enough for a majority of Americans?

[City Lights]

12. Let's start with Congress, Joe!

No pay, no benefits, no health care, no nothing! Life's been too good to you so far!

[Taverner]

13. yay...anarchy

[freshwest]

15. Generally periods of anarchy are followed by dictatorships.

[Taverner]

17. Oh I'm sorry - I guess I forgot to put this in my post

:sarcasm:

[freshwest]

19. Why thank you, I suspected as much... but ya never know, do ya?

Did you see where the conservative politician in the UK called for the chaos of no social services in his district?

Just cut everything off, he said, let the free market handle it all. He said he thought it was going to wonderfully creative. What was going to be created, he didn't say.

Then after being throroughly thrashed, he apologized. But that's what they want. Guess they've got it made already.

[jtown1123]

18. Walsh, how about asking an actual economist and not your dumb tea bagger constituents