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posted by
Angel1:
they don't control all of the US Government and that's because a majority of Americans chose to strip them of their control of the US House of Representatives.
Actually you're way off base here.
In the 2012, elections there were 122,346,020 total votes cast for the House of Representatives nationwide. Of those 122,346,020 votes, Republicans can not claim a majority or even a plurality of the votes were cast for their party. In fact, neither the D or R got a majority of the votes. However, the D did get the plurality of votes; but thanks to the beauty that is gerrymandering the Republicans are able to take limited government to the extreme and do absolutely nothing.
Don't believe me, look it up.
http://clerk.house.gov/...tionInfo/2012election.pdf
Look, I think limited government sounds good and all. And I also believe that there is excessive government spending on all types of things. But y'all take every good idea and push it to the extreme.
This is not a zero-sum game; these are peoples livelihoods we are talking about. Shutting down the government and pushing for the government to default on our debt, is ridiculous and hurts the entire US economy.